Quotes about Conviction
APODICTICAL (APODI'CTICAL) adj.[from evident truth; demonstration.]Demonstrative; evident beyond contradiction. Holding an apodictical knowledge, and an assured knowledge of it; verily, to persuade their apprehensions otherwise, were to make Euclid believe, that there were more than one centre in
— Samuel Johnson
Thanks to God that he gave me stubbornness when I know I am right.
— John Adams
If you believe in the Gospel what you like, and reject what you don't like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself.
— John Bevere
What God says is best, indeed is best, though all the men in the world are against it.
— John Bunyan
When a man's cause is good, it will sufficiently plead for itself, yea, and for its master too.
— John Bunyan
What God says is best, is best, though all the men in the world are against it.
— John Bunyan
Doctrine is not an affair of the tongue but of the life.
— John Calvin
Not that they may believe against their wills (which would be impossible), but that they may be made willing to believe who were before unwilling to believe.
— John Calvin
Our faith in doctrine is not established until we have a perfect conviction that God is its author.
— John Calvin
The knowledge of faith consists in assurance rather than in comprehension... We add the words "sure and firm" in order to express a more solid constancy of persuasion.
— John Calvin
The testimony of the Spirit is superior to reason. For as God alone can properly bear witness to his own words, so these words will not obtain full credit in the hearts of men, until they are sealed by the inward testimony of the Spirit. The same Spirit, therefore, who spoke by the mouth of the prophets, must penetrate our hearts, in order to convince us that they faithfully delivered the message with which they were divinely entrusted.
— John Calvin
But, as a heathen tells us, there is no nation so barbarous, no race so brutish, as not to be imbued with the conviction that there is a God.
— John Calvin