Quotes About Conversion

That is the principal thing: not to remain with the dream, with the intention, with the being in the mood, but always forcibly to convert it into all things.

I am a living illustration of Bosnian mixing and converting. My grandparents lived in eastern Herzegovina. Very poor. The Turks came and brought Islam. There were three brothers in the family. One was Orthodox Christian. The other two took Islam to survive.

Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

A Protestant has seldom any mercy shown him, and a Jew, who turns Christian, is far from being secure.

My wife had been a Christian since twelve years old.

The study of the traditions doesn't necessarily make you want to convert to another tradition, but it helps you to see your own differently and expands your outlook.

Eventually you're going to have a digital transfer anyway when you make a CD, so it doesn't matter as long as what you're hitting first is what you want it to be.

At this time in Medjugorje, as a spark igniting a great fire, again the Word comes through a humble and obedient servant, the Blessed Virgin Mary. Here messages to the visionaries - and to the rest of us - are not new. They are as old as the Church itself, and they are simple, easy to understand. She is calling us to pray. To fast. To reconcile. To do penance. To convert.

The church which ceases to be evangelistic will soon cease to be evangelical.

For Jews, the paradigmatic convert is the biblical Ruth, who sought not only a new relationship with God but also a new nationality.

I even went so far as to become a Southern Baptist for a while, until I realized that they didn't hold 'em under long enough.

I'm a former Red Sox fan, now fully rehabilitated.

the builder of radio programmes who succeeds in the future, must find practical ways to convert listeners into buyers.

The defender of the dogmas of modern finance and efficient markets started a fund that took advantage of market inefficiencies! It is as if the Pope converted to Islam.

Sahagún is known as the first American anthropologist, for he labored for decades to understand the Indians he sought to convert. With other missionaries, he amassed an archive on the Mexica and their neighbors—dynastic histories, dictionaries of native languages, descriptions of customs, collections of poetry and drama, galleries of paintings and sculpture—unequaled by that on any other Indian group, even the Inka.

Valencia's plan was conversion by proxy: he and the rest of the twelve would open the eyes of the Indian priesthood to the beauties of the true faith, gaining their adherence by reasoned theological discussion, and then the priests would fan out and spread the Gospel in their native tongue.

it is so important to bear in mind the probability of conversion from one function to another

Their moral position in converting from slave holders to champions of freedom was about like a house cat on a cold night scooting through a closing door just before the latch clacks shut. But sometimes timing is all. A brief moment of history, less than a deep breath, becomes the difference between inside and outside.

converting cannot leave certain American values unchanged. For although God is willing to start where Americans are, he is not content if we continue to be crippled by simply continuing in our commitment to the values in which we have been trained.

The conversion of a soul is the miracle of a moment, the manufacture of a saint is the task of a lifetime.

when you stare into the void, the void stares also; but if you cast into the void, you get a type conversion error.

The intelligence bloom that gnaws at Jupiter's moons with claws of molecular machinery won't stop until it runs out of dumb matter to convert into computronium. By the time it does, it will have as much brainpower as you'd get if you placed a planet with a population of six billion future-shocked primates in orbit around every star in the Milky Way galaxy.

As man sows, so shall he reap. In works of fiction, such men are sometimes converted. More often, in real life, they do not change their natures until they are converted into dust.

Productivity is the efficiency with which we convert inputs into outputs. In other words, how good