Oswald Chambers Quotes

We are pleased with one who instantly assents to our opinions, but we love a proselyte.

Time makes more converts than reason.

Let one persuade many, and he becomes confirmed and convinced, and cares for no better evidence.

You can present people with ideas they may come to believe in, and as a result of them they will act, if they have the opportunities. Presenting people with opportunities is part of what politics is about.

If you can make someone believe that you believe in the idea then I think that's worth a lot.

You can change my mind, but you gotta work harder at it.

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

When people disagree with you, what you ultimately have to do is persuade people to agree with you - period.

Why should I try to make you believe the things I believe in?

After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.

One person with a belief is a social power equal to ninety-nine who only have interests.

A man must be himself convinced if he is to convince others. The prophet must be his own disciple, or he will make none. Enthusiasm is contagious: belief creates belief.

… another man‘s opinion rarely convinces.

Books still accomplish miracles; they persuade men.

If you're not convinced, how can you convince others?

Every idea is an incitement. It offers itself for belief, and if believed it is acted on unless some other belief outweighs it or some failure of energy stifles the movement at its birth. The only difference between the expression of an opinion and an incitement is the speaker's enthusiasm for the result.

And fools who came to scoff remain'd to pray.

You can persuade a man to believe almost anything provided he is clever enough, but it is much more difficult to persuade someone less clever.

To make converts is the natural ambition of everyone.

Our kindness may be the most persuasive argument for that which we believe.

Rebuttals never alter desire.

No one can control his own opinion or his own belief. My belief was forced upon me by my surroundings. I am the product of all circumstances that have in any way touched me.

The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.

But facts always convince, and another man's opinion rarely convinces.

I like [Barak] Obama. I like him. So how far does rationality help to persuade anybody? You know, I'm not so sure.