Quotes About Conversion

Does a person have a right to change his or her own religion? This is a fundamental human right, just like a right to freedom of speech.

I went to Salt Lake City and the Mormons tried to convert me, but when I found they forbade tea and tobacco I thought it was no religion for me.

To change one's religion under the threat of force is no conversion but rather cowardice.

If your religion does not change you, then you had better change your religion.

It is extremely difficult for a Jew to be converted for how can he bring himself to believe in the divinity of - another Jew?

You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.

There are corrupted Muslims who have become Christians, and corrupted Christians who have become Muslims. They called it freedom of religion.

Los santos cristianos no solo se parecían a los antiguos dioses politeístas, sino que a menudo eran los mismos dioses disfrazados. Por ejemplo, la diosa principal de la Irlanda céltica anterior a la llegada del cristianismo era Brígida. Cuando Irlanda fue cristianizada, Brígida fue asimismo bautizada, convirtiéndose en santa Brígida, la santa más venerada en la Irlanda católica hasta la actualidad.

El dinero es así un medio universal de intercambio que permite a la gente convertir casi todo en casi cualquier cosa.

At heart, the Industrial Revolution has been a revolution in energy conversion. It

a) Convertibilidad universal: con el dinero como alquimista, se puede convertir la tierra en lealtad, la justicia en salud y la violencia en conocimiento. b) Confianza universal: con el dinero como intermediario, cualesquiera dos personas pueden cooperar en cualquier proyecto.

I used to say to my classes that the ways to get insight are: to study infants; to study animals; to study primitive people; to be psychoanalysed; to have a religious conversion and get over it; to have a psychotic episode and get over it.

Light and dark appear as opposites, and we've all learned to think of them as warring enemies. Duality is based on separation, yet the soul exists in harmony with everything, even darkness. Your shadow self knows this. As it holds negative energy for you, it tries to attract your attention, not to make you afraid or enraged or vindictive, but so that you can convert those feelings into understanding. Understanding is the light.

The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself. All that you despise, all that you loathe, all that you reject, all that you condemn and seek to convert by punishment springs from you.

Kindness has converted more sinners than either zeal, eloquence, or learning; and these three last have never converted any.

We must school and train ourselves to deal personally with the unconverted. We must not excuse ourselves, but force ourselves to the irksome task until it becomes easy.

Being converted to Jesus is learning to so adore God that we would gladly renounce everything we have to follow Him.

The true convert does not receive the gospel as an addition to his previous life, but in exchange for it.

Purple prose attracts attention more than converts.

There are few things that get evangelical Christians more excited than new converts coming into the fold. It's like chum for sharks.

Without going into details, let's just say that there wasn't much left besides horns and hooves.

Starting out from the fact that the frustrated predominate among the early adherents of all mass movements and that they usually join of their own accord, it is assumed: 1) that frustration of itself, without any proselytizing prompting from the outside, can generate most of the peculiar characteristics of the true believer; 2) that an effective technique of conversion consists basically in the inculcation and fixation of proclivities and responses indigenous to the frustrated mind.

The man just out of the army is an ideal potential convert, and we find him among the early adherents of all contemporary mass movements. He feels alone and lost in the free-for-all of civilian life. The

The proselytizing fanatic strengthens his own faith by converting others.