Converting Quotes - Page 3

• Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

  "Executive's Portfolio of Model Speeches for All Occasions". Book by Dianna Daniels Booher, 1991.

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• After Hatuey, a fifteenth-century Indian insurrectionist, had been fixed to the stake, his Spanish captors extended him the choice of converting to Christianity and ascending to Heaven of going unrepentantly to Hell. Gathering that his executioners expected to go to heaven, Hatuey chose the other

  Kathy Acker

  Choices, Heaven, Gathering

  Kathy Acker (1994). “My Mother: Demonology”, p.13, Grove Press

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• Advertising tries to stimulate our sensuous desires, converting luxuries into necessities, but it only intensifies man's inner misery. The business world is bent on creating hungers which its wares never satisfy, and thus it adds to the frustrations and broken minds of our times.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Frustration, Men, Luxury

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• If you wish to convert anyone to the fullness of the knowledge of Our Lord and of His Mystical Body, then teach him the Rosary. One of two things will happen. Either he will stop saying the Rosary - or he will get the gift of faith.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Christian, Two, Wish

  Fulton J. Sheen (2010). “The World's First Love”, p.215, Ignatius Press

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• I don't condemn and I don't convert. I've been searching through books and bibles to find what this life is worth, and I've made up my mind: Love is my religion. You can take it or leave it, and you don't have to believe it. Love is my religion

  Ziggy Marley

  Believe, Book, Love Is

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• My only objective is to paint a Christ so moving that those who see him will be converted.

  Georges Rouault

  Moving, Objectivity, Christ

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• I am a living illustration of Bosnian mixing and converting. My grandparents lived in eastern Herzegovina. Very poor. The Turks came and brought Islam. There were three brothers in the family. One was Orthodox Christian. The other two took Islam to survive.

  Emir Kusturica

  Christian, Brother, Illustration

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• The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

  Pasquier Quesnel

  Truth, Doe, Irritated

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• Converting the war into an antislavery crusade was a brilliant move on Lincoln's part, and it resulted in a surge of voluntary recruits into the Union army. But this did not last. Northerners may have disapproved of slavery in the South but, once the bloodletting began in earnest, their willingness to die for that conviction began to wane. [...] Lincoln faced the embarrassing reality that he soon would have no army to carry on the crusade.

  G. Edward Griffin

  War, Moving, Army

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• After all, the past is our only real guide to the future, and historical analogies are instruments for distilling and organizing the past and converting it to a map by which we can navigate.

  Michael Mandelbaum

  Real, Past, Historical

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• But the Wisdom of God, which is His only-begotten Son, being in all respects incapable of change or alteration, and every good quality in Him being essential, and such as cannot be changed and converted, His glory is therefore declared to be pure and sincere.

  Origen

  Wisdom, Son, Quality

  Origen (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Origen (Annotated Edition)”, p.74, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Most mainline Protestant churches are, to one degree or another, post-Christian. If they no longer seem disposed to converting the unbelieving to Christ, they can at least convert them to the boggiest of soft-left clichés, on the grounds that if Jesus were alive today he’d most likely be a gay Anglican bishop in a committed relationship driving around in an environmentally friendly car with an “Arms are for Hugging” sticker on the way to an interfaith dialogue with a Wiccan and a couple of Wahhabi imams.

  Mark Steyn

  Christian, Jesus, Couple

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• "thanks" in MaoriGrateful living: an alchemic operation of converting "disgraceful" things into grateful events.

  Raimon Panikkar

  Gratitude, Grateful, Events

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• Men of sense esteem wealth to be the assimilation of nature to themselves, the converting of the sap and juices of the planet to the incarnation and nutriment of their design.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Men, Design

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.365

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• Do not stand still disputing about your election - but set to repenting and believing. Cry to God for converting grace. Revealed things belong to you; in these busy yourself. Whatever God's purposes may be, I am sure His promises are true. Whatever the decrees of heaven may be, I am sure if I repent and believe I shall be saved.

  Joseph Alleine

  Believe, Heaven, Grace

  "A Sure Guide to Heaven".

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• Their plan is to return the entire world - not just the Middle East - to the days of the caliphate and either convert all of us so-called infidels into born-again Islamic believers or kill us.

  David Hackworth

  Islamic, Middle East, World

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• I've spent, I think, close to the last decade effortlessly and magically converting your tin cans into pure gold.

  Charlie Sheen

  Thinking, Tin Cans, Gold

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• Now here's somebody who wants to smoke a marijuana cigarette. If he's caught, he goes to jail. Now is that moral? Is that proper? I think it's absolutely disgraceful that our government, supposed to be our government, should be in the position of converting people who are not harming others into criminals, of destroying their lives, putting them in jail. That's the issue to me. The economic issue comes in only for explaining why it has those effects. But the economic reasons are not the reasons.

  Milton Friedman

  Thinking, Marijuana, Jail

  "Friedman & Szasz On Liberty and Drugs". Interview with Randy Paige on "America's Drug Forum", www.druglibrary.org. 1991.

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• When our Lord says, we must be converted and become as little children, I suppose He means also, that we must be sensible of our weakness, comparatively speaking, as a little child.

  George Whitefield

  Spiritual, Children, Mean

  George Whitefield (2013). “Sermons of George Whitefield”, p.74, Hendrickson Publishers

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• Nature is a rag-merchant, who works up every shred and ort and end into new creations; like a good chemist, whom I found, the other day, in his laboratory, converting his old shirts into pure white sugar.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, White, Rags

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt McLaughlin (2010). “The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.73, North Atlantic Books

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• The wooing of the Earth thus implies much more than converting the wilderness into humanized environments. It means also preserving natural environments in which to experience mysteries transcending daily life and from which to recapture, in a Proustian kind of remembrance, the awareness of the cosmic forces that have shaped humankind.

  Rene Dubos

  Mean, Remembrance, Earth

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• There are many members of parliament present here who know as well as I do that, if a man has not already been converted, it will require a great deal more than a letter of appeal to achieve conversion.

  Fredrik Bajer

  Men, Letters, Achieve

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• Our life is a hope which is continually converting itself into memory and memory in its turn begets hope.

  Miguel de Unamuno

  Memories, Life Is, Turns

  Miguel de Unamuno (2012). “Tragic Sense Of Life”, p.349, tredition

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• Force may make hypocrites, but it can never make converts.

  William Penn

  Hypocrite, May, Force

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• You do not belong to you. You belong to the universe. The significance of you will remain forever obscure to you, but you may assume you are fulfilling your significance if you apply yourself to converting all you experience to highest advantage to others. Make the world work, for 100% of humanity, in the shortest possible time, through spontaneous cooperation, without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Spiritual, Forever, Humanity

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