True Conviction Quotes

Nothing seems to me to be rarer today then genuine hypocrisy. I greatly suspect that this plant finds the mild atmosphere of our culture unendurable. Hypocrisy has its place in the ages of strong belief: in which even when one is compelled to exhibit a different belief one does not abandon the belief one already has.

Belief is like plastic flowers, which look like flowers from far away. Trust is real rose. It has roots, and roots go deep into your heart and into your being.

Loving Jesus is what's most important to me. I know it sounds hokey, but it's the truth.

The way I see it, it doesn't matter what you believe just so you're sincere.

The more sincere we are in our belief, as a rule, the less demonstrative we are.

Genuine blasphemy, genuine in spirit and not purely verbal, is the product of partial belief, and is as impossible to the complete atheist as to the perfect Christian.

We don't believe something by merely saying we believe it, or even when we believe that we believe it. We believe something when we act as if it were true.

As long as you are promoting something that you really believe in - yes, it's incredible to see that designer earn the esteem they deserve - but there's something to be said about the fact that if you're convicted about an opinion, and you really believe something's great, you're not going to credit yourself for their success.

Any faith that does not command the one who holds it is not a real belief; it is a pseudo belief only. And it might shock some of us profoundly if we were brought suddenly face to face with our beliefs and forced to test them in the fires of practical living.

On the last day, God will not acquit us because our good works were good enough, but he will look for evidence that our good confession was not phony. It’s in this sense that we must be holy.

Force may make hypocrites, but it can never make converts.

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another.

Preachers err by trying to talk people into belief; better they reveal the radiance of their own discovery.

Any belief that does not command the one who holds it is not a real belief; it is a pseudo belief only.