Quotes about Persuasion

I thought to myself: 'Is the pain a little less than when I went away?' and tried to persuade myself that it was so.

God acts toward his people, as much as possible, but since he is a God of persuasion rather than coercion, God also allows his people to act on him and to thereby condition the form his self-revelation takes, as much as this is necessary to remain in solidarity with, and to continue to work through, his fallen and culturally conditioned people.

I was once a skeptic but was converted by the two missionaries on either side of my nose.

She makes me love her and I like people who make me love them. It saves me so much trouble making myself love them

In this age, in this country, public sentiment is everything. With it, nothing can fail; against it, nothing can succeed. Whoever molds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes, or pronounces judicial decisions.

If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.

Demagoguery is the ability to dress minor ideas with major words.

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

Lincoln characterized Stephen Douglas's argument as a specious and fantastic arrangement of words, by which a man can prove a horse chestnut to be a chestnut horse.

Persuasion is better than force.

We shall never again try to convince a fool by reason, for it is both useless and dangerous.

Oh, unheard of compassion of the apostle! In seeking to make the Jews Christians, he himself became a Jew! For he could not have persuaded the luxurious to become temperate if he had not himself become luxurious like them;