Conversion Quotes - Page 3

• In his book Stand Ye In Holy Places, President Harold B. Lee wrote that one is converted when his eyes see what he ought to see, his ears hear what he ought to hear and his heart understands what he ought to understand. "And what he ought to see, hear and understand is truth-eternal truth-and then practice it. That is conversion," he wrote.

  Harold B. Lee

  Book, Heart, Eye

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• Some people who experience a religious conversion seem to undergo a personality change. They can be quite congenial and easygoing when talking about mundane things, but when they start talking about their faith, their demeanor changes. Their tone of voice modifies, their smile becomes tense and they become defensive when questioned about their evidence for belief. It becomes difficult to have a friendly conversation with them.

  Darrel Ray

  Religious, Talking, Voice

  "The God Virus: How Religion Infects Our Lives and Culture". Book by Darrel Ray, 2009.

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• Sudden conversion ... is particularly attractive to the half-baked mind.

  E. M. Forster

  Mind, Atheism, Half

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• To pass from estrangement from God to be a son of God is the basic fact of conversion. That altered relationship with God gives you an altered relationship with yourself, with your brother man, with nature, with the universe.

  E. Stanley Jones

  Brother, Son, Men

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• Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion - it is a daily process whereby you grow to be more and more like Christ.

  Billy Graham

  Christian, Process, Daily Motivation

  FaceBook post by Billy Graham from Oct 02, 2012

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• Conversion is a complete surrender to Jesus. It's a willingness to do what he wants you to do.

  Billy Sunday

  Sports, Jesus, Want

  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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• I own I never really warmed
  To the reformer or reformed.
  And yet conversion has its place
  Not halfway down the scale of grace.

  Robert Frost

  Grace, Reform, Scales

  Robert Frost (1971). “The poetry of Robert Frost”

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• Testimony is the beginning of and a prerequisite to continuing conversion. Testimony is a point of departure; it is not an ultimate destination. Strong testimony is the foundation upon which conversion is established. Testimony alone is not and will not be enough to protect us in the latter-day storm of darkness and evil in which we are living.

  David A. Bednar

  Strong, Evil, Darkness

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• If family religion were duly attended to and properly discharged, I think the preaching of the Word would not be the common instrument of conversion.

  Richard Baxter

  Thinking, Common, Instruments

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• We hear of the conversion of water into wine at the marriage in Cana as of a miracle. But this conversion is, through the goodness of God, made every day before our eyes. Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards, and which incorporates itself with the grapes, to be changed into wine; a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Rain, Eye, Wine

  Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks (1856). “The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition, and Many Letters, Official and Private Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author”, p.226

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• Conversion is an offering of self, of love, and of loyalty we give to God in gratitude for the gift of testimony.

  David A. Bednar

  Loyalty, Gratitude, Offering

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• Conversion is a daily thing.

  Jim Caviezel

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• Once the process [of conversion] is begun and continues...you are continually turning inward toward God and away from your own egocentricity...you have to see this selfish side of yourself in order to turn away from it. I measure God by everything I am not. I begin with that.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Faith, Selfish, Order

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• Feelings of guilt dominate our work as peacemakers we cannot last long. But when we have opened each other's eyes to the great human gifts among all people we can indeed make peacemaking a way of being.

  Henri Nouwen

  Gratitude, Eye, Mutual Support

  "Peacework: Prayer, Resistance, Community".

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• Did a Magdalene, a Paul, a Constantine, an Augustine become mountains of ice after their conversion? Quite the contrary. We should never have had these prodigies of conversion and marvelous holiness if they had not changed the flames of human passion into volcanoes of immense love of God.

  Frances Xavier Cabrini

  Faith, Inspiration, Passion

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• And what he ought to see, hear and understand is truth-eternal truth-and then practice it. That is conversion

  Harold B. Lee

  Heart, Practice, Ought

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• I am against conversion (to Buddhism). In my speech at UN, the first thing I said was that I am for conversion, but not from one organised religion to another, but from misery to happiness, from bondage to liberation.

  S. N. Goenka

  Buddhism, Speech, Vipassana

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• No one had to worry about Peter after his conversion. Your investigators can be that converted.

  Richard G. Scott

  Worry, Peter, Converting

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• What people most need now is to apply their conversion skills to those things that are essential for their survival. They need to convert facts into logic, free will into purpose, conscience into decision. They need to convert historical experience into a design for a sane world.

  Norman Cousins

  Skills, People, Perspective

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• There is somebody in the world whom you have to bring to Christ. I do not know where he is, or who he is; but you had better look out for him.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Looks, World, Christ

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• People don't listen, they just wait for their turn to talk.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  People, Waiting, Turns

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• The conversion of agnostic High Tories to the Anglican church is always rather suspect. It seems too pat and predictable, too clearly a matter of politics rather than faith.

  Terry Eagleton

  Church, Matter, Agnostic

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• Surely conversion is a matter between man and his Maker who alone knows his creatures' hearts. A conversion without a clean heart is, in my opinion, a denial of God and Religion. Conversion without cleanliness of heart can only be a matter of sorrow, not joy, to a godly person.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Heart, Godly, Men

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

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• Now are the days, of humblest prayer,
  When consciences to God lie bare,
  And mercy most delights to spare.
  Oh hearken when we cry.
  Now is the season, wisely long,
  Of sadder thought and graver song,
  When ailing souls grow well and strong.
  Oh hearken when we cry.
  The feast of penance! Oh so bright,
  With true conversion's heavenly light,
  Like sunrise after stormy night!
  Oh hearken when we cry.
  Oh happy time of blessed tears,
  Of surer hopes, of chast'ning fears,
  Undoing all our evil years.
  Oh hearken when we cry.
  Chastise us with Thy fear;
  Yet, Father! in the multitude
  Of Thy compassions, hear!

  Frederick William Faber

  Song, Strong, Prayer

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• Why are black folks singing Amazing Grace which is a song about a white slaver's conversion?

  Dick Gregory

  Song, White, Grace

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