Quotes About Conversion

We are pleased with one who instantly assents to our opinions, but we love a proselyte.

The best treatment for alcoholism is religious conversion.

Native gods, called anitos, were often not abandoned, but instead were transformed into saints and were often venerated in small chapels attached to private homes.

There is no surer evidence of an unconverted state than to have the things of the world uppermost in our aim, love, and estimation.

Converting grace puts God on the throne, and the world at His footstool; Christ in the heart, and the world under Hisfeet.

In every sound convert the judgment is brought to approve of the laws and ways of Christ, and subscribe to them as most righteous and reasonable; the desire of the heart is to know the whole mind of Christ; the free and resolved choice of the heart is determined for the ways of Christ, before all the pleasures of sin, and prosperities of the world; it is the daily care of his life to walk with God.

There is no remedy, but you must either turn or burn.

The unsound convert takes Christ by halves. He is all for the salvation of Christ, but is not for sanctification. He is for the privileges, but does not appropriate the person of Christ.

...with the true convert, holiness is woven into all his powers, principles, and practice

In every sound convert the judgement is brought to approve of the laws and ways of Christ, and subscribe to them as most righteous and reasonable; the desire of the heart is to know the whole mind of Christ; the free and resolved choice of the heart is determined for the ways of Christ, before all the pleasures of sin, and prosperities of the world; it is the daily care of his life to walk with God.

The unsound convert is willingly ignorant, loves not to come to the light. He is willing to keep such or such a sin, and therefore is loathed to know it to be a sin, and will not let in the light at that window. Now, the gracious heart is willing to know the whole latitude and compass of his Maker's law. He receives with all acceptation the Word which convinceth him of any duty that he knew not, or minded not before, or which discovereth any sin that lay hid before.

Conversion turns the bias of the WILL both as to means and end. The intentions of the will are altered. Now the man has new ends and designs. He now intends God above all, and desires and designs nothing in all the world, so much as that Christ may be magnified in him. He counts himself more happy in this than in all that the earth could yield, that he may be serviceable to Christ, and bring Him glory. This is the mark he aims at, that the name of Jesus may be great in the world.

I wish to be certain that I am converted myself, before I leave my converted brethren to convert heathens.

It's time to set our sights on the marketing funnel, aka, AIDA. AIDA stands for Awareness, Interest, Desire, and Action. (p.3)

Avinash Kaushik refers to much of media communications as "faith-based initiatives." In other words, they are often futile attempts to bridge the vast chasm between the two ends of the funnel - exposure and conversion... (p. 5)

My life since my conversion has, therefore, been an ongoing act of atonement. In particular, I have sought to use the gifts that God has given me to glorify Him and to bring souls to Him, in contrast to the way that I had previously used those same gifts to glorify his enemies and to lead souls astray. This has been the rationale behind my vocation as a Catholic writer in the twenty-five years since my conversion. The

The simplest explanation is that the process of corrup tion brings back those elementary substances which cor respond to the peculiar nature of the changed accidents. Thus the miracle of the Eucharistic conversion does not abolish the law of the indestructibility of matter.

The dogma of Transub-stantiation implies that the entire substance of the bread and the entire substance of the wine are converted, respectively, into the substances of the Body and Blood of Christ, and that the con version takes place in such a way that "only the appearances of bread and wine remain.

would, should, or could move from social space into a different relational space.

Så mye lengsel i èn retning blir like mye lengsel i en annen retning. Lengselen konverteres, som en datafil. Ingenting forsvinner. Det bare skifter fortegn. Mengdel lengsel forblir konstant.

Yo hubiera querido tener la vida intensa de pecado sexual que él tuvo antes de su conversión;

If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.

Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties.

When you go after someone who has a deep ideological belief set that is contradictory with your own, it's conversion. Conversion is hard. Conversion is miraculous. We have entire religions built around the idea of conversion. Politics is not a religion. Politics is about persuasion.