Conversion Quotes - Page 12

• The joy a person is usually seen to express at the conversion of another to his opinion is seldom more than the impulse of egotistical satisfaction at being considered worthy of didactic imitation.

  Norm MacDonald

  Joy, Satisfaction, Opinion

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• It is hard to think of conversion as a blinding light on the road to Damascus, or as a highly spiritual or intellectual process, when the light comes from a flickering television; the voice of the deity is Bishop Sheen and you have drilled your father on his catechism answers...I was troubled at a young age by the idea that pouring water over someone's head could change both his relationship to God.

  Susan Jacoby

  Spiritual, Father, Women

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• Gaining insight into one's underlying motives, it seems, is more like a belief conversion than a self-discovery process

  Albert Bandura

  Discovery, Self, Belief

  Albert Bandura (1986). “Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory”, Prentice Hall

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• I'm certainly not a fan of conversion when you could shoot the movie in 3-D.

  James Cameron

  Fans

  James Cameron, Brent Dunham (2012). “James Cameron: Interviews”, p.205, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I believe that the Bible is to be understood and received in the plain and obvious meaning of its passages; for I cannot persuade myself that a book intended for the instruction and conversion of the whole world should cover its true meaning in any such mystery and doubt that none but critics and philosophers can discover it.

  Daniel Webster

  Bible, Book, Believe

  Daniel Webster, Dartmouth College (1974). “The papers of Daniel Webster: Correspondence”

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• Would that God would make hell so real to us that we cannot rest; heaven so real that we must have men there, Christ so real that our supreme motive and aim shall be to make the Man of Sorrows the Man of Joy by the conversion to him of many.

  Hudson Taylor

  Real, Men, Joy

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• True salvation always produces an abiding change of nature in a true convert. Therefore, whenever holiness of life does not accompany a confession of conversion, it must be understood that this individual is not a Christian.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Christian, Abiding, Doe

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• As it is with spiritual discoveries and affections given at first conversion, so it is in all subsequent illuminations and affections of that kind; they are all transforming. There is a like divine power and energy in them as in the first discoveries; they still reach the bottom of the heart, and affect and alter the very nature of the soul, in proportion to the degree in which they are given. And a transformation of nature is continued and carried on by them to the end of life, until it is brought to perfection in glory.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Spiritual, Heart, Discovery

  Jonathan Edwards, Sereno Edwards Dwight (1829). “A treatise concerning religious affections. Five discourses on important subjects”, p.218

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• Regeneration is God's disposing the heart to Himself; conversion is the actual turning of the heart to God.

  Richard Cecil

  Heart, Regeneration

  Richard Cecil, Josiah Pratt (1825). “The Works of Richard Cecil: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.368

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• Conversion is a turning onto the right road. The next thing to do is to walk on it.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Next, Things To Do, Walks

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• My faith in Christ is central to my life. My conversion from a pessimistic atheist lost in a world I didn't understand, to an optimistic believer in a universe created and sustained by a loving God is crucial to me. But following Christ does not mean following His followers. Christ is infinitely more important than Christianity and always will be, no matter what Christianity is, has been, or might become.

  Anne Rice

  God, Faith, Christian

  FaceBook post by Anne Rice from Jul 29, 2010

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• Capturing the beauty of the conversion of the water into wine, the poet Alexander Pope said, "The conscious water saw its Master and blushed." That sublime description could be reworked to explain each one of these miracles. Was it any different in principle for a broken body to mend at the command of its Maker? Was it far-fetched for the Creator of the universe, who fashioned matter out of nothing, to multiply bread for the crowd? Was it not within the power of the One who called all the molecules into existence to interlock them that they might bear His footsteps?

  Ravi Zacharias

  Wine, Water, Broken

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• The condition of photographing is maybe the condition of being on the brink of conversion to anything.

  Diane Arbus

  Photography, Conditions

  Diane Arbus (2003). “Diane Arbus: revelations”, Random House (NY)

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• All my desire was the conversion of the heathen... I declare, now I am dying, I would not have spent my life otherwise for the whole world.

  David Brainerd

  Dying, Desire, Missionary

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• The superficial distinctions of Fascism, Bolshevism, Hitlerism, are the concern of journalists and publicists; the serious student sees in them only one root-idea of a complete conversion of social power into State power.

  Albert J. Nock

  Ideas, Roots, Serious

  "Our Enemy, The State". Book by Albert Jay Nock, Caldwell, Idaho, Caxton Press, 1950.

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• Stories are the creative conversion of life itself into a more powerful, clearer, more meaningful experience. They are the currency of human contact.

  Robert McKee

  Meaningful, Powerful, Creative

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• Social organizations are flagrantly open systems in that the input of energies and the conversion of output into further energetic input consists of transactions between the organization and its environment.

  Daniel Katz

  Organization, Energy, Input

  Daniel Katz, Robert L. Kahn (1978). “The Social Psychology of Organizations”, Wiley

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• The journey begins, though, with understanding what it means to be a christian. To say you believe in Jesus apart from conversion in your life completely misses the essence of what it means to follow him. Do not be deceived.

  David Platt

  Christian, Jesus, Believe

  David Platt (2013). “Follow Me: A Call to Die. A Call to Live.”, p.24, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• The test of a man's conversion is whether he has enough Christianity to get it to other people. If he hasn't, there is something wrong.

  Sam Shoemaker

  Men, People, Religion

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• DIGESTION, n. The conversion of victuals into virtues. When the process is imperfect, vices are evolved instead - a circumstance from which that wicked writer, Dr. Jeremiah Blenn, infers that the ladies are the greater sufferers from dyspepsia.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Science, Imperfection, Wicked

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.57, University of Georgia Press

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• Reliable and affordable energy is essential for meeting basic human needs and fueling economic growth, but many of the most difficult and dangerous environmental problems at every level of economic development arise from the harvesting, transport, processing, and conversion of energy

  John Holdren

  Growth, Environmental, Energy

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• Holiness does not consist in not making mistakes or never sinning. Holiness grows with capacity for conversion, repentance, willingness to begin again, and above all with the capacity for reconciliation and forgiveness.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Mistake, Doe, Holiness

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• ... whenever Christ, the Bridegroom of pure souls, is mystically united with each soul, He gives the Father occasion to rejoice over this as at a wedding. It is Christ Himself Who says, 'Joy shall be in heaven over one sinner who repents' (Lk. 15:7). For joy, according to the Apostle, is the fruit of the Holy Spirit (Gal. 5:22), Who through conversion brings back to Christ those living in repentance, and reunites them with Him. And this joy embraces both those in heaven and godly men on earth. That is why there is joy in heaven over one repentant sinner.

  Gregory Palamas

  Christian, Father, Godly

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• The fact is, brethren, we must have conversion work here. We cannot go on as some churches do without converts. We cannot, we will not, we must not, we dare not. Souls must be converted here, and if there be not many born to Christ, may the Lord grant to me that I may sleep in the tomb and be heard no more. Better indeed for us to die than to live, if souls be not saved.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Sleep, Soul, Church

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 7: Sermons 348-426”, p.398, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• While conversion of sugars to ethanol is the predominant reaction, it is only one of potentially thousands of biochemical reactions taking place during fermentation. As a result, wine contains trace amounts of a large number of organic acids, esters, sugars, alcohols, and other molecules. Wine is, in fact, one of the most complex of all beverages: the fruit of a soil, climate, and vintage, digested by a fungus through a process guided by the culture, vision, and skill of an individual man or woman.

  Neel Burton

  Wine, Men, Vintage

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