Quotes about Persuasion
I once heard one of his colleagues describe my father as "the kind of guy who could tell you to go to hell and you'd look forward to the trip.
- Richard Paul Evans
We do not always believe things because they're true. More often than not, we believe things because they're expedient.
- Richard Paul Evans
I know—I knew it then—but I didn't believe it. Belief and knowledge aren't the same thing. Belief is much more powerful.
- Richard Paul Evans
Belief and knowledge aren't the same thing. Belief is much more powerful.
- Richard Paul Evans
We can have no power from Christ unless we live in a persuasion that we have none of our own.
- John Owen
If a Christian really believed that his neighbor will be tortured in all eternity in Hell, he should try day and night to persuade him to repent and believe. How sad that this doesn't happen.
- Richard Wurmbrand
Emotion makes the prospects take action now, and logic enables them to justify the purchase later.
- Zig Ziglar
Unhappy, let alone angry, religious people provide more persuasive arguments for atheism and secularism than do all the arguments of atheists.
- Dennis Prager
Faith is a knowledge of the benevolence of God toward us, and a certain persuasion of His veracity.
- John Calvin
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Your life as a Christian should make non believers question their disbelief in God.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
You'd have a better chance persuading someone to change their sexual orientation than reaching people who have rendered themselves so deaf and blind.
- Epictetus