Heartfelt Conviction Quotes

Genuine religion is matter of feeling rather than matter of opinion.

Clear declaration of truth makes a difference in people's lives. That is what changes hearts. That is what the Holy Ghost can confirm in the hearts of God's children.

A person knows when it just seems to feel right to them. Listen to your heart.

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

If you feel something in your heart, if you have a vision for it, then it's no longer a risk.

Speaking with passion born of your own authentic experience and belief is always persuasive.

Believe deep down in your heart that you're destined to do great things.

When the heart is won, the understanding is easily convinced.

Some people accuse us of too much emotionalism. I say we have too little. That is why we are losing church people to other interests. We need not only to capture their minds; we've got to touch their hearts. We've got to make people feel their faith.

You don’t change the world with the ideas in your mind, but with the conviction in your heart.

Trust what moves you most deeply.

Love is no ingredient in a merely speculative faith, but it is the life and soul of a practical faith.

The senator had only one argument in his favour: his feeling. When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object. In the realm of kitsch, the dictatorship of the heart reigns supreme.

Earnestness is highly underestimated. It comes from the core, while hip is trying to impress you on the surface.

Once you realize that what I’m saying is true and comes from the heart, then it’s easy. But if you see it all as a façade and just a presentation of affected emotion, then it’s not so easy, it’ll just confuse you.

I believe that one always does himself and his audience an injustice when he speaks merely for the sake of speaking. I do not believe that one should speak unless, deep down in his heart, he feels convinced that he has a message to deliver.

Nowhere have I found words more powerful than those in the Psalms. Their fervid poetry cleanses one, gives one strength, brings hope in moments of darkness. Makes one look critically into oneself, convict oneself, and wash one's heart clean with one's own tears. It is the ever-burning fire of love, of gratitude, humility, and truth.

You have to have a passionate opinion; otherwise you sound false. You end up telling the audience jokes they've already heard.

I had always been very rational, but I'd always used reason in such a way as to convince myself that reasoning alone would not solve anything, really. Reasoning is theoretical. Until you feel with your heart, you don't know if a thing is true. I found that book was absolutely authentic. I absolutely knew it was the truth. My whole heart accepted it.

I promise you that when the circumstances arise where I have a difference on policy or on presentation, I have - I can tell you in my heart, I know - I would have no hesitation, were I privileged to be vice president, to walk into the president's office, close the door, and share my heart.

I wrote almost all of it in the deepest hope and conviction. Sifting my thoughts and choosing my words. Trying to say what was true. And I'll tell you frankly, that was wonderful.