A conviction is a determinative believe: something you believe so strongly that it affects the way you live.
Author: Jerry Bridges Source: The Discipline of Grace, p. 162,
Conviction should actually grow throughout our Christian lives. In fact, one sign of spiritual growth is an increased awareness of our sinfulness.
Author: Jerry Bridges Source: The Gospel for Real Life, p. 18.
This is the way we develop conviction - by bringing God's Word to bear on specific situations that arise in our lives and determining God's will in that situation from the Word.
Author: Jerry Bridges Source: The Pursuit of Holiness, p. 87.
We must have conviction that it is God's will that we seek holiness - regardless of how arduous and painful the seeking may be. And we must be confident that the pursuit of holiness results in God's approval and blessing, even when circumstances make it appear otherwise.
Author: Jerry Bridges Source: The Pursuit of Holiness, p. 142.
Whenever God reproves us, not only in words, but in reality, and reminds us of our sins, we do not so suffer for one fault as to be free for the future, but that until we from the heart repent, He ever sounds in our ears these words, Still God will contend with you: and a real contention is meant.
Author: John Calvin Source: Commentary, Jeremiah 2:9.
I do not understand how a man can be a true believer, in whom sin is not the greatest burden, sorrow and trouble.
Unless we are thoroughly convinced that without Christ we are under the eternal curse of God, as the worst of His enemies, we shall never flee to Him for refuge.
Author: John Owen Source: Meditation on the Glory of Christ, 1684, ch. 15.
A conviction is a determinative believe: something you believe so strongly that it affects the way you live.