Quotes About Conversion

The greatest religions convert the world through stories.

Some people seem to gravitate from one fundamentalism to another, from some kind of secular fundamentalism into a religious fundamentalism or the other way around, which is not very helpful.

Being a fan of pop music and rock bands, I am a reluctant convert into the art of instrumental rock music.

Great dislike to the Bible was shown by those who conversed with me about it, and several have remarked to me, at different times, that if it were not for that book, Catholics would never be led to renounce their own faith.

Kindness can turn the bad man's heart, and fools convert to wise, Make poison into nectar-juice, and friends of enemies.

The early apostles felt it necessary to make sure every Christian convert received the gift of the Holy Spirit, as should every Christian minister in the twenty-first century Church should

Any investigator worthy of baptism becomes a convert worthy of saving.

As far as the Jews were concerned, the transformation of the crime of Judaism into the fashionable vice of Jewishness was dangerous in the extreme. Jews had been able to escape from Judaism into conversion; from Jewishness there was no escape. A crime, moreover, is met with punishment; a vice can only be exterminated.

I actually became a Christian in my rookie year on tour when I was 16 years old.

Kilometers are shorter than miles. Save gas, take your next trip in kilometers.

The only way to convert a heathen is to travel into the jungle.

It would be easier to grow oak trees by planting marbles than for someone to be saved without the seed of the word.

I was 22 years old when I asked Christ to come into my heart. You cannot be born a Christian you can only be converted. And that is by putting your faith and trust in Christ.

Learning and receiving revelation must necessarily include both the heart and the mind, or thoughts, and feelings. Intellect alone cannot produce a testimony. You cannot think your way to conversion, because you cannot convince your mind of something your heart does not feel.

The world," he resumed after a short pause, "has no faith in any man's conversion; it never forgets what he was, it never believes him anything better, it is an inexorable and stupid judge.

Persecution is a bad and indirect way to plant Religion.

I do make conversion, if conversion means really turning people to God - to have a clean heart and to love God. That's the real conversion.

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

Converts have it soft, said Mary. They come to it late, without ever having had the Devil under the bed. They sail in and admire the stained-glass windows. All the dirty work has been done.

It was Milton," he certificatively added, "who converted me to diabolism." "Diabolism? Oh, yes? Really?" said I, with that vague discomfort and that intense desire to be polite which one feels when a man speaks of his own religion. "You—worship the devil?" Soames shook his head. "It's not exactly worship," he qualified, sipping his absinthe. "It's more a matter of trusting and encouraging.

To see the despair without the grace is suicidal. To see the grace without the despair is upper room futility. But to see them both is conversion.

Pablo tenía sangre en sus manos y diplomas religiosos en su pared. Pero entonces llegó el momento en el camino a Damasco. Jesús apareció. Y una vez Pablo vio a Jesús, ya no pudo ver más.

The difficult road is the road of conversion, the conversion from loneliness into solitude. Instead of running way from our loneliness and trying to forget or deny it, we have to protect it and turn it into fruitful solitude.... Loneliness is painful; solitude is peaceful. - Nouwen

It is urgent that men take up the banner of feminism and challenge patriarchy. The safety and continuation of life on the planet requires feminist conversion of men.