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• Recently, I've been loving Monster Hunter! A film conversion is currently in planning.

  Paul W. S. Anderson

  Monsters, Hunters, Planning

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• Always remember that there is no conversion to God if there is no conversion to the oppressed.

  Ignacio Ellacuria

  Remember, Oppressed, Ifs

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• True conversion means turning not only from sin but also from depending on self-made righteousness.

  George Whitefield

  Mean, Self, Sin

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• Oh, be assured, fellow teachers, that there is no time in life so favorable to sound conversion as early childhood.

  Theodore L. Cuyler

  Teacher, School, Sunday

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 572), 1895.

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• Conversion is the act of joining our hands to the pierced hand of the crucified Saviour. The new life begins with the taking of Christ's hand, and His taking hold, in infinite love, of our weak hands.

  Theodore L. Cuyler

  Hands, New Life, Joining

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 162), 1895.

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• To aim to convert a man by miracles is a profanation of the soul. A true conversion, a true Christ, is now, as always, to be madeby the reception of beautiful sentiments.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Men, Miracle

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.81, Penguin

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• Since satyagraha is a method of conversion and conviction, it seeks never to use the slightest coercion.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Use, Coercion, Conviction

  Mahatma Gandhi (1984). “The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words”

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• Students undergo a conversion in the third year of medical school - not pre-clinical to clinical, but pre-cynical to cynical.

  Abraham Verghese

  School, Years, Cynical

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• Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my intuition had always known.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Acceptance, Intellectual, Intuition

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• That conversion which is all joy and lacks sorrow for sin, is very questionable.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Joy, Sorrow, Sin

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 35: Sermons 2062-2120”, p.171, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• My own veneration for other faiths is the same as that for my own faith; therefore no thought of conversion is possible

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Faith, Veneration, My Own

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.57, A&C Black

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• Conversion by the Holy Spirit is a spiritual illumination of the soul. God's grace lights up the dark heart. And when a man has once been kindled at the cross of Christ, he is bound to shine.

  Theodore L. Cuyler

  Spiritual, Heart, Dark

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 163), 1895.

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• Far too long, historians have accepted the claim that the conversion of the Emperor Constantine (ca. 285-337) caused the triumph of Christianity. To the contrary, he destroyed its most attractive and dynamic aspects, turning a high-intensity, grassroots movement into an arrogant institution controlled by an elite who often managed to be both brutal and lax.

  Rodney Stark

  Long, Triumph, Arrogant

  "For the Glory of God: How Monotheism Led to Reformations, Science, Witch-Hunts, and the End of Slavery". Book by Rodney Stark, August 29, 2004.

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• Conversion is not, as some suppose, a violent opening of the heart by grace, in which will, reason and judgment are all ignored or crushed. The season is not blinded, but enlightened; and the whole man is made to act with a glorious liberty which it never knew till it fell under the restraints of grace.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Heart, Men, Grace

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• Dyson and Tolkien were the immediate human causes of my conversion. Is any pleasure on earth as great as a circle of Christian friends by a good fire?

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Fire, Circles

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• To come to know that nothing is good, nothing is bad, is a turning point; it is a conversion. You start looking in; the outside reality loses meaning. The social reality is a fiction, a beautiful drama; you can participate in it, but then you don’t take it seriously. It is just a role to be played; play it as beautifully, as efficiently, as possible. But don’t take it seriously, it has nothing of the ultimate in it.

  Rajneesh

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Drama

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• A friend asked the author,"If this conversion you speak about is truly supernatural, and why is it not more evident in the lives of so many Christians that I know?

  Ravi Zacharias

  Christian, Speak, Knows

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• If conversion to Christianity makes no improvement in a man's outward actions – if he continues to be just a snobbish or spiteful or envious or ambitious as he was before – then I think we must suspect that his 'conversion' was largely imaginary.

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, Thinking, Ambitious

  C.S. Lewis (1960). “Mere Christianity”

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