Quote Subject: Conviction

B.F. Westcott:  “The idea of ‘conviction’ is complex.  It involves the conceptions of authoritative examination, of unquestionable proof, of decisive judgment, of punitive power.  Whatever the final issue may be, he who ‘convicts’ another places the truth of the case in dispute in a clear light before him, so that it must be seen and […]

“The light of eternity was shining into the room, and I wondered how any could laugh with God’s judgment hanging over us, like Damocles’ sword suspended by a hair.  We seemed like people sporting with closed eyes on the edge of a precipice, and I the most careless of all, till grace had made me […]