Conversion Quotes - Page 11

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties.

  Dalai Lama

  Confusion, May, Kind

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• I never outgrew my conversion to atheism at 13, but at various times was a serious cultural Jew.

  Steven Pinker

  Atheism, Serious, Jew

  "Steven Pinker: the mind reader". www.theguardian.com. November 5, 1999.

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• A revival does two things. First, it returns the Church from her backsliding and second, it causes the conversion of men and women; and it always includes the conviction of sin on the part of the Church. What a spell the devil seems to cast over the Church today!

  Billy Sunday

  Sports, Men, Church On Sunday

  Billy Sunday, William Thomas Ellis (1917). “Billy Sunday, the Man and His Message: With His Own Words which Have Won Thousands for Christ”

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• What corporations fear is the phenomenon now known, rather inelegantly, as 'commoditization.' What the term means is simply the conversion of the market for a given product into a commodity market, which is characterized by declining prices and profit margins, increasing competition, and lowered barriers to entry.

  James Surowiecki

  Mean, Competition, Profit Margin

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• Conversion brings a drive to learn.

  Henry B. Eyring

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• Testimony is to know and to feel, Conversion is to do and to become.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Testimony, Feels, Knows

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• When conversion takes place, the process of revelation occurs in a very simple way - a person is in need, he suffers, and then somehow the other world opens up. The more you are in suffering and difficulties and are 'desperate' for God, the more He is going to come to your aid, reveal Who He is and show you the way out.

  Seraphim Rose

  Simple, Other Worlds, Suffering

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• In conversion you are not attached primarily to an order, nor to an institution, nor a movement, nor a set of beliefs, nor a code of action - you are attached primarily to a Person, and secondarily to these other things.

  E. Stanley Jones

  Order, Movement, Belief

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• We are in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us....How glorious a conversion, so complete and wholesome it is, scarce memory enough of old bondage days left as a standpoint to view it from! In this newness of life we seem to have been so always

  John Muir

  Memories, Views, Cells

  John Muir, Peter Browning (1988). “John Muir, in His Own Words: A Book of Quotations”, p.8, Great West Books

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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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• All writers, musicians, artists, choreographers/dancers, etc., work with the stuff of their experiences. It's the translation of it, the conversion of it, the shaping of it that makes for the drama.

  Toni Cade Bambara

  Music, Dance, Drama

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• The most zealous converters are always the most rancorous when they fail of producing conversion.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Zealous, Failing

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”

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• Italian companies need to re-convert themselves, and such a re-conversion must be toward a better, higher standard.

  Brunello Cucinelli

  Italian, Needs, Standards

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• Once divested of missionary virus, the cult of our gods gives no offence. It would be a peaceful age if this were recognized, and religion, Christian, communist or any other, were to rely on practice and not on conversion for her growth.

  Freya Stark

  Christian, Practice, Giving

  Freya Stark (1964). “The Journey's Echo: Selections”

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• I have known men who thought the object of conversion was to cleanse them as a garment is cleansed, and that when they are converted they were to be hung up in the Lord's wardrobe, the door of which was to be shut, so that no dust could get at them. A coat that is not used the moths eat; and a Christian who is hung up so that he shall not be tempted, the moths eat him; and they have poor food at that.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Christian, Men, Dust

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• Desires going before conversion are not such as can calm a storming conscience.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Desire, Calm, Conscience

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• 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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• The best and simplest cosmetic for women is constant gentleness and sympathy for the noblest interests of her fellow-creatures. This preserves and gives to her features an indelibly gay, fresh, and agreeable expression. If women would but realize that harshness makes them ugly, it would prove the best means of conversion.

  Berthold Auerbach

  Mean, Gay, Expression

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• The Iranian people were converted to Islam not very much longer after the conquest of the Arab world by Islam, but they refused to adopt the Arabic language, and it's a great point of pride to them that Persian culture and the Persian language and Persian literature survived the conversion to Islam. And the conversion to Islam also was for most of them not the Sunni majority form, but the Shia one. So there's a great discrepancy between Iranian society and many other of what we think of as Arab Muslim States and systems.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Pride, Thinking, Discrepancies Between

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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