Quotes About Christian Conviction

#1. Our Christian conviction is that Christ is also the messiah of Israel. Certainly it is in the hands of God how and when the unification of Jews and Christians into the people of God will take place.

Pope Benedict XVI

#2. The modern world detests authority but worships relevance. Our Christian conviction is that the Bible has both authority and relevance, and that the secret of both is Jesus Christ

John Stott

#3. When you understand the values of God's kingdom, you will best understand His agenda.4 However, it is my conviction that the message of the kingdom, and the values therein, are sorely lacking in understanding today.

Tony Evans

#4. It is a high Christian privilege to pray for one another within each local church body and then for other believers throughout the world. As a Christian minister, I have no right to preach to people I have not prayed for. That is my strong conviction.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#5. When God brings deep conviction and I agree with Him about my condition, God restores my confidence in Him.

Johnny Hunt

#6. Faith is the 'yes' of the heart, a conviction on which one stakes one's life.

Martin Luther

#7. Christian love is not a wave of emotion, but a deliberate conviction of the mind that issues in a biblical way of life. (p. 36)

P.G. Mathew

#8. If you aren't willing to fight for what you believe in, then you don't really believe in it. Faith is a verb.

Kellen Roggenbuck

#9. Christian faith undercuts the urge to fix everything on our own, through conviction of the final helplessness of man and confidence in the providence of God
through certainty that only God can set everything to rights, and faith that in the end, He will. Man can only ameliorate, not cure.

J. Budziszewski

#10. Christian faith isn't just a conviction, a feeling and a decision. It invades life so deeply that we have to talk about dying and being born again, which is what corresponds to the death and resurrection of Christ.

Jurgen Moltmann

#11. If we are Christians, we must look like Christ - this is my deep conviction.

Mother Teresa

#12. I got involved in improv comedy. It settled me down when I was getting wild. I was sort of an evil teenager smashing up my cars and drinking and driving, let's just say, a lot.

Bruce McCulloch

#13. Real conversion is an experience of repentance and forgiveness before God. It is not merely praying a prayer, joining a Christian church, or receiving a sacrament. It is being brought to our knees by the conviction of God the Holy Spirit.

R.C. Sproul

#14. The word "conviction" means to expose.

Johnny Hunt

#15. I wanted to be a theater actress, and initially, I wanted to work in musical theater

Tavis Smiley

#16. My mother was a huge influence on me. She was a living example of what a Christian should be. Her conviction, her discipline. She would rather see other people happy than herself.

Barry Sanders

#17. The conviction which we must share and spread is that the call to holiness is directed to all Christians. This is not a question of privilege or of spiritual elitism. It is a question of a grace offered to all the baptized.

Pope John Paul II

#18. Most great art is created when the artist feels they are channeling something rather than trying to communicate something.

Donald Miller

#19. The Christian must be consumed by the conviction of the infinite beauty of holiness and the infinite damnability of sin.

Thomas Carlyle

#20. A daily conviction that Jesus Christ is alive draws our hearts closer to Him to believe that He is alive to work in our lives!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#21. In America, now, let us - Christian, Jew, Muslim, agnostic, atheist, wiccan, whatever - fight nativism with the same strength and conviction that we fight terrorism. My faith calls on its followers to love one's enemies. A tall order, that - perhaps the tallest of all.

Jon Meacham

#22. The Lord said: 'Without Me you can do nothing' (Jn. 15:5). So for the duration of our life, every day and at every moment, we must keep unchanged in our heart the feeling, conviction and disposition, that on no occasion can we allow ourselves to think of relying on ourselves and trusting ourselves.

Lorenzo Scupoli

#23. God gives out good gifts of wisdom, talent, beauty, and skill 'graciously'
that is, in a completely unmerited way. He casts them across all humanity, regardless of religious conviction, race, gender, or any other attribute to enrich, brighten, and preserve the world.

Timothy Keller

#24. Real revival does not begin with joyous singing. It begins with conviction and repentance on the part of Christians.

Vance Havner

#25. You can trust the Bible. You will never be a great Christian until you come to the unshakable conviction that the Bible is the Word of God.

Adrian Rogers

#26. It was like letting go and falling back into water and seeing yourself grinning up through the water, your face like a mask, and seeing the bubbles coming up as if you were trying to speak from under the water. And how do you know what it's like to try to speak from under water when you're drowned?

Jean Rhys

#27. He who has not yet attained divine knowledge energized by love is proud of his spiritual progress. But he who has been granted such knowledge repeats with deep conviction the words uttered by the patriarch Abraham when he was granted the manifestation of God: 'I am dust and ashes' (Gen. 18:27).

Maximus The Confessor

#28. From the manner in which a woman draws her thread at every stitch of her needlework, any other woman can surmise her thoughts.

Honore De Balzac

#29. The conviction that Christian doctrine matters for Christian living is one of the most important growth points of the Christian life.

Sinclair B. Ferguson

#30. I am so, so lucky. I am the luckiest girl in the world, really. And still with access to everything I could possibly want I still say 'Oh dear, what am I going to wear today?' There's no ending to that question!

Salma Hayek

#31. In examining the evidence of the Christian religion, it is essential to the discovery of truth that we bring to the investigation a mind freed, as far as possible, from existing prejudice, and open to conviction.

Simon Greenleaf