Quotes about Conviction
We must, however, reaffirm what we know to be true, even when we don't feel it to be true. This will help us to live more by faith than by feelings.
— Donald Whitney
When it comes to spirituality, you do what you do because you believe what you believe. Regardless of the importance you consciously place upon it, theology drives and determines your spirituality.
— Donald Whitney
Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Cowardice asks the question - is it safe? Vanity asks the question - is it popular? Expediency asks the question - is it political? But conscience asks the question - is it right? There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, popular, or political; but because it is right.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
We lead out of our beliefs
— Myles Munroe
Sin makes man a coward; but a life in the Truth of Christ makes Him bold.
— St. John Chrysostom
Do your homework and know your facts, but remember it's passion that persuades.
— H Jackson Brown, Jr.
What you believe has a much greater impact on your life than what anybody else believes.
— Joel Osteen
What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
If I'm going to call myself a person of faith, I need to be willing to live a life that actually requires faith.
— Lysa TerKeurst
If we repeatedly read the Bible without the help of the Holy Spirit, it tends to reinforce our own prejudices and rock-hard doctrinal positions. We end up merely finding ammunition for what we already believe. We become so spiritually proud, so convinced of our own positions, that the Spirit is hindered in helping us to grow in the things of God.
— Jim Cymbala
A fundamentalist can't bring himself or herself to negotiate with people who disagree with them because the negotiating process itself is an indication of implied equality.
— Jimmy Carter