Quotes about Persuasion
A man with an experience of God is never at the mercy of a man with an argument.
- Leonard Ravenhill
We must win rulers; political, economic, scientific, artistic personalities. They are the engineers of souls. They mold the souls of men. Winning them, you win the people they lead and influence.
- Richard Wurmbrand
If you wish to win a man over to your ideas, first make him your friend.
- Abraham Lincoln
The Spirit never makes men the instruments of converting others until they feel that they cannot do it themselves; that their skill in argument, in persuasion, in management, avails nothing.
- Charles Hodge
Some things will not bear much zeal; and the more earnest we are about them, the less we recommend ourselves to the approbation of sober and considerate men.
- John Tillotson
People are not to be driven and you can put into a gnat's eye all the souls of the children of men that are driven into heaven by preaching hell-fire.
- Brigham Young
With words we govern men.
- Benjamin Disraeli
A man with an obsession is a man who has very little sales resistance.
- CS Lewis
Gradually, however, I was forced to abandon the effort to persuade them to come my way, and then I achieved results only by appealing over the heads of the Senate and House leaders to the people, who were the masters of both of us.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Thou thinkest as man. In many things thou judgest as human affection persuadeth thee.
- Thomas a Kempis
People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive. —BLAISE PASCAL
- Norman Geisler
Forcing people to "freely" believe is a contradiction in terms. God is love (1 John 4:16), and love cannot work coercively — only persuasively.
- Norman Geisler