Quotes about Conviction
It is important to know that the opposite of faith is not doubt, but in fact, certitude and the demand for certitude!
— Fr. Richard Rohr
The good, the true, and the beautiful are always their own best argument for themselves—by themselves—and in themselves.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
I worry about "true believers" who cannot carry any doubt or anxiety at all, as Thomas the Apostle and Mother Teresa learned to do. People who are so certain always seem like Hamlet's
— Fr. Richard Rohr
I finally had to be either Roman or catholic, and I continue to choose the catholic end of that spectrum.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Nothing is so certain as that which is certain after doubts. Shaking settles and roots.
— Richard Sibbes
You cannot keep yourself from talking about what you care about most. Jesus said, "A man's heart determines his speech.
— Rick Warren
You only believe the part of the Bible you do.
— Rick Warren
What you believe has more power than what you dream or wish or hope for. You become what you believe.
— Oprah Winfrey
I am convinced that love is the most durable power in the world. It is not an expression of impractical idealism, but of practical realism.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.
— Abraham Lincoln
If we pray little, it is probably because we do not really believe that prayer accomplishes much at all.
— Wayne Grudem
Repentance and faith are distasteful to the unregenerate; they would sooner repeat a thousand formal prayers than shed a solitary tear of true repentance.
— Charles Spurgeon