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Quotes About Conversion

We do not merely destroy our enemies, we change them. Do you understand what I mean by that?
~ George Orwell
We do not merely destroy our enemies, we change them.
~ George Orwell
We are not content with negative obedience, nor even with the most abject submission. When finally you surrender to us, it must be of your own free will. we do not destroy the heretic because he resist us: so long as he resist us we never destroy him. We convert him, we capture his inner mind, we reshape him. We burn all evil and all illusion out of him; we bring him over to our side, not in appearance, but genuinely, heart and soul.
~ George Orwell
From nothingness, there arose great love; now, its source nullified, that love, searching and sick, converts to the most abysmal suffering imaginable. In
~ George Saunders
it is the discovery of the depths of weakness, the power of grace, and the price of both. Moreover, what takes place in the desert is not simply difficult travel and adventurous learning; it is repentance and conversion, the transformation of mixed motivations into purified desire, the greening of desert into garden through the living water of grace.
~ Gerald G. May
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~ Marc Ostrofsky
My fear in converting it to 3-D is that people will say, 'Oh, it's the 3-D 'Clash of the Titans.' No, it's 'Clash of the Titans,' the movie, and then, on top of that, you have the 3-D conversion. The 2-D movie works as well as the 3-D movie. I want to make sure that people like the 2-D version.
~ Louis Leterrier
Time makes more converts than reason.
~ Thomas Paine
People change teams all the time. People might not go from Green Bay to Chicago or from Chicago to Green Bay all the time, but people change teams all the time.
~ Julius Peppers
I've spent, I think, close to the last decade effortlessly and magically converting your tin cans into pure gold.
~ Charlie Sheen
To be honest, I've just become a Steelers fan.
~ Nate Torrence
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
As we have already explained, conversion is a journey that begins for the infant at baptism, during which a seed is planted—a seed that will grow.
~ Scot McKnight
Under extremely powerful pressure peanut butter can be turned into diamonds.
~ Scott Matthews
In a general sense, to convert any short story, novel, play, or opera into a movie, you have to re-rig it. Even though they're all narratives over time, they're very different forms.
~ Alexander Payne
Almost every convert runs the risk of catching our civilization... I compassionate missionary, leave China! come home and convert these Christians!
~ Mark Twain
Jews fled deep into the Sahara and lived there among the Berber tribes, some of whom they later converted to Judaism. Ironically, it was a Cyrenaican Jew, Mark–the St. Mark of the Gospels–who converted to Christianity and founded
~ Martin Gilbert
In the Fifth Century, Yemen adopted Judaism as its religion. King Ab Karib As'ad, the ruler of the Himyarite kingdom, introduced the change after converting to Judaism himself under the influence of Jews at his court. Many south Arabian converts to Judaism followed; Jewish rule in Yemen lasted almost a hundred years.
~ Martin Gilbert
Persuasion may play a part in a man's conversion; but only the part of bringing to its full and conscious climax a process which has been maturing in regions where no persuasion can penetrate. A faith is not acquired; it grows like a tree.
~ Arthur Koestler
Twenty percent of Kerala's population were Syrian Christians, who believed that they were descendants of the one hundred Brahmins whom St. Thomas the Apostle converted to Christianity when he traveled East after the Resurrection.
~ Arundhati Roy
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~ Stanis?aw Lem
I Sanmenoniti erano conosciuti per il loro populismo e i loro metodi rozzi, ispirati a San Menonio, santo che nei quadri è raffigurato con un randello in mano, come il fante di bastoni, ed è noto ai fedeli per aver convertito interi paesi di montagna a mazzate.
~ Stefano Benni
It's strange how things can change back as suddenly as they changed originally.
~ Stephen Chbosky
you remember every word in this book, your memory will have recorded about two million pieces of information: the order in your brain will have increased by about two million units. However, while you have been reading the book, you will have converted at least a thousand calories of ordered energy, in the form of food, into disordered energy, in the form of heat that you lose to the air around you by convection and sweat.
~ Stephen Hawking