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• The overwhelming joy of conversion or a new calling is often followed by feelings of being overwhelmed with duties and doctrines. The first joyous feelings are real and give one much-needed initial momentum. But the genuine exhilaration is soon followed by the need to perspire and to pedal.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Real, Giving, Joy

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• As to the value of conversions, God alone can judge. God alone can know how wide are the steps which the soul has to take before it can approach to a community with Him, to the dwelling of the perfect, or to the intercourse and friendship of higher natures.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Dwelling, Perfect, Judging

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• Conversion engages the mind as well as the emotions.

  Max Anders

  Mind, Emotion, Wells

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• Intellectual methods-study and reason-are essential to our progress toward eternal life, but they are not sufficient. They can prepare the way. They can get the mind ready to receive the Spirit. But what the scriptures call conversion-the change of mind and heart that gives us the direction and strength to move resolutely toward eternal life-comes only by the witness and power of the Holy Spirit.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Moving, Heart, Giving

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• You can increase conversion rates and return on investment (ROI) by several times by making PPC landing pages extremely relevant.

  Brian Halligan

  Return, Roi, Pages

  Brian Halligan, Dharmesh Shah (2014). “Inbound Marketing, Revised and Updated: Attract, Engage, and Delight Customers Online”, p.128, John Wiley & Sons

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• Many Christians in the evangelical tradition use words like "conversion," "regeneration," "justification," "born-again," etc. all as more or less synonyms to mean "becoming a Christian from cold." In the classic Reformed tradition, the word "justification" is much more fine-tuned than that and has to do with a verdict which is pronounced, rather than with something happening to you in terms of actually being born again. So that I'm actually much closer to some classic Reformed writing on this than some people perhaps realize.

  N. T. Wright

  Christian, Mean, Writing

  Interview with Trevin Wax, blogs.thegospelcoalition.org. November 19, 2007.

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• What has to be done today is (1) large-scale conversion (weatherizing , etc.), (2) sharp change in transportation to greater efficiency, like high-speed rail, (3) serious efforts to move to sustainable energy, probably solar in the somewhat longer term, (4) other adjustments that are feasible. If done effectively, that might be enough to stave off disaster. If not, then we can give up the ghost, because there are no alternatives in this world, at least none that I've seen suggested.

  Noam Chomsky

  Giving Up, Moving, Effort

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• More than half of Americans have changed religions at least once in their adult lifetime. This is - the rate of religious conversion here is much, much higher than it is anywhere in Europe, for example.

  Susan Jacoby

  Religious, Europe, Adults

  "'Strange Gods' Chronicles The History Of Secularism And Conversion". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. February 17, 2016.

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• I believe that a religious conversion is the only way to stimulate the peoples of the industrialized nations to be willing to make sacrifices for the sake of esho funi (the oneness of self and environment). ... I wish the entire world would accept as an item of religious faith the concept of esho funi and its moral obligations.

  Arnold J. Toynbee

  Religious, Believe, Sacrifice

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• There are three objectives for content marketing: reach engagement conversion. Define key metrics for each.

  Michael Brenner

  Keys, Marketing, Metrics

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• Michael Gove is an incredibly talent guy and a Brexiteer. But he has been telling all of us for the last five years that he doesn't want to [be the Prime Minister] and he doesn't think he's got it in him to do it so his conversion on the road to Damascus has come pretty late.

  Andrew Mitchell

  Thinking, Years, Guy

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• I think very few people realize how much the separation of church and state has to do with the fact that Americans are not only more religious than a lot of other people in the world but that conversions are much more common here.

  Susan Jacoby

  Religious, Thinking, People

  "'Strange Gods' Chronicles The History Of Secularism And Conversion". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. February 17, 2016.

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• Is our situation not dismal? Wonderland is so discombobulated that lady bugs have turned belligerent and enlisted in the queen's army! Punish their conversion!

  Cheshire Cat

  Queens, Army, Wonderland

  "Fictional character: Cheshire Cat". Video Game "Alice", www.imdb.com. 2000.

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• People think that, that conversion to Judaism is just a modern phenomenon. But there was an era in the late Roman Empire Judaism was not a proselytizing religion. It didn't go out looking for converts, but it accepted converts.

  Susan Jacoby

  Thinking, People, Empires

  "'Strange Gods' Chronicles The History Of Secularism And Conversion". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. February 17, 2016.

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• To attain peace among the nations in any dynamic or enduring form requires not simply political negotiation but a new mode of consciousness. The magnitude of this change is in the order of religious conversion or of spiritual rebirth rather than of treaty processes or even of inter-cultural understanding. Simply to recognize the basic nature and dimension of the issues we face is already an advance.

  Thomas Berry

  Spiritual, Religious, Peace

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• Americans believe that you can alter people by conversion, and that everybody in the world is a potential American. The Chinese also believe that their values are universal, but they do not believe that you can convert to becoming a Chinese unless you are born into it.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Believe, People, Chinese

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• We tell our portfolio companies that it's really important to be metrics-driven and to track their conversions. It goes back to building that scalable sales model.

  Devon McDonald

  Track, Important, Metrics

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• Simple assent to the gospel, divorced from a transforming commitment to the living Christ, is by Biblical standards less than faith, and less than saving, and to elicit only assent of this kind would be to secure only false conversions.

  J. I. Packer

  Commitment, Biblical, Simple

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• A self-made man, if he is made at all, has already won the battle of life. . . . he has learned to resist. He has learned the value of money, and how to refuse to spend it. He has learned the value of time, and how the conversion of it into useful things will make of his life something worthwhile. He has learned to say no, to say no at the right time and then to stand by it. Without resistance, and the self-denial which it often imposes, there is no real happiness. In the quest for happiness man must learn that temptation resisted strengthens the mind and the soul.

  Alvin R. Dyer

  Life, Real, Men

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• What is at issue is the conversion of the mind from the twilight of error to the truth, that climb up into the real world which we shall call true philosophy.

  Plato

  Philosophy, Real, Twilight

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• Revelation is the first step to holiness, and consecration is the second. A day must come in our lives, as definite as the day of our conversion, when we give up all right to ourselves and submit to the absolute Lordship of Jesus Christ.

  Watchman Nee

  Jesus, Giving Up, Holiness

  Watchman Nee (2009). “The Normal Christian Life”, p.113, CLC Publications

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• The main goal of divine Providence in [allowing] the discovery of these tribes and lands . . . is . . . the conversion and well-being of souls, and to this goal everything temporal must necessarily be subordinated and directed.

  Bartolome de las Casas

  Discovery, Land, Goal

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• Conversion without a clean heart is a denial of God and religion.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Heart, Denial

  Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani, Ganga Anand Hingorani (1985). “The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts”

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• Surely, conversion is a matter between man and his Maker who alone knows His creatures' hearts.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Heart, Men

  Mahatma Gandhi (1976). “Collected Works”

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• Recycling is more expensive for communities than it needs to be, partly because traditional recycling tries to force materials into more lifetimes than they are designed for - a complicated and messy conversion, and one that itself expends energy and resources. Very few objects of modern consumption were designed with recycling in mind. If the process is truly to save money and materials, products must be designed from the very beginning to be recycled or even "upcycled" - a term we use to describe the return to industrial systems of materials with improved, rather than degraded, quality.

  William McDonough

  Community, Mind, Trying

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