Quotes about Persuasion
Language is powerful. Words matter.
- Eric Metaxas
If you hold a rose up before a man and he shuts his eyes tight and just holds out his hands and says "Here, I am ready to be persuaded; convince me by touch that your rose is red;" then you are helpless.
- Phillips Brooks
We hear many persuasive voices demanding freedom from restrictions, particularly from moral restraints. However, we learn from the history of the earth that any successful society has had boundaries.
- James Faust
The Muslims want to force conversion. Christians want to persuade you to voluntarily change your heart to where you would say yes to Jesus Christ.
- Franklin Graham
You may fool all the people some of the time, you can even fool some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.
- Abraham Lincoln
Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment nothing can fail. Without it nothing can succeed. He who molds opinion is greater than he who enacts laws.
- Abraham Lincoln
Foulgrin: If you can keep Fletcher from saying a definitive no to a temptation, you've won. Whatever is not a no is merely a postponed yes. (advice to the tempter Squaltaint)
- Randy Alcorn
God does something to us as well as for us through the cross. He persuades us that He loves us." —Sinclair Ferguson
- Randy Alcorn
The goal in most conflicts is to destroy your opponent. The goal in apologetics is to win your opponent.
- Ravi Zacharias
But there is more to it than that. My belief has come about in large measure because of the lives and examples of people I have known—not the famous, not saints, but
- Ravi Zacharias
The seduction was complete. The lie is what people want, so why get hung up on the truth?
- Ravi Zacharias
The important thing is to keep them pledging," he explained to his cohorts. "It doesn't matter whether they mean it or not. That's why they make little kids pledge allegiance even before they know what 'pledge' and 'allegiance' mean.
- Joseph Heller