Quotes About Conversion

Starting out from the fact that the frustrated1 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.

Conversion is a matter of the heart, not of the academy; polemics function more to "speak to the choir" and shore up internal unity rather than to facilitate understanding, let alone to show love of neighbor.

The revival movement was responsible for a tremendous spread of Christianity among slaves in the South. Slaves came in their thousands to camp meetings organized mainly by Baptists and Methodists, where they listened to the same sermons, succumbed to the same transports of emotion, and pledged themselves to the same spiritual renewal as white revivalists. At times white slave owners were known to undergo conversion at a revival meeting and then decide to free their slaves.

If you want to be Jewish, welcome, but convert via the Halacha.

My brother thinks it is very, very bad that I left Islam. My half-sister wants to convert me back; I want to convert her to Western values. My mum is terrified that when I die, and we all go to God, I will be burned.

I hope in God, I pray on, and look yet for the answer. They are not converted yet, but they will be.

I'm not the first Christian to have a fruity past. I hesitate to compare myself to St Augustine or St Paul, but there is a precedent for this sort of thing.

Christ preferred the poor; ever since I have been converted so have I.

The Lord will bless us with more baptisms if you make sure the ones you have are going to keep their commitments. The Lord will not prepare more people for baptism if we are not converting the ones we have.

Well, I'm a Christian. I was a born a Presbyterian and became an Episcopalian.

I searched for answers to life's meaning and, though I was raised a Presbyterian, I converted to Judaism around 1983.

Every convert is a son or daughter of God.

I need a long and lingering death to make sure that I have time to have a deathbed conversion.

I'm what you call a deathbed Catholic.

I started out as a Democrat.

I was a convert to Catholicism, and converts are much more devout.

We need preachers. We need men who believe that this task and women who believe that this task is so great that not all the strategies in the world can make one soul converted.

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I was once a skeptic but was converted by the two missionaries on either side of my nose.

From now on you need never await temporal attestation to your thought. You think the truth. You do not have the right to eliminate yourself. You do not belong to you. You belong to Universe. Your significance will remain forever obscure to you, but you may assume that you are fulfilling your role if you apply yourself to converting your experiences to the highest advantage of others.

The key to financial freedom and great wealth is a person's ability to convert earned income into passive and/or portfolio income.

A total of six thousand Cholultecans perished. Cortés ordered the few priests who survived to wash the floors and walls, to rid the temples of idols and in their place to install crosses and images of the Virgin Mary.

It was the evidence from science and history that prompted me to abandon my atheism and become a Christian.

We, in Africa, have no more need of being 'converted' to socialism than we have of being 'taught' democracy. Both are rooted in our past -- in the traditional society which produced us.