Quotes About Conversion

In brief, the purgative stage or way includes the initial phases of the spiritual life, including coming to conversion, turning away from sin, bringing one's life into conformity with the moral law, initiating the habit of prayer and the practices of piety, and maintaining a relatively stable life in the Church. (The

None of God's elect die before they are converted.

There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into a power.

I basically forgot that God called me to make disciples, not just converts.

When the gospel is preached, there will be true and false conversions.

It is the false convert who is like a dog that returns to his vomit and the pig who goes back to the mire. A genuine convert would rather die than despise the Spirit of grace and trample the blood of Christ under his feet. 3:21 See Psalm 50:22-23.

Churches don't make the gospel true. It is true even when the household of God behaves badly. But people can see that it is true, and doubters are converted when "the sweetness of the Lord" is upon us (Ps. 90:17, JB).

I became a Catholic against my will.

I came to Christ in my early 20s.

I'm a born-again Christian. I was raised Episcopalian - I've always been of a Christian faith, but I became much more active in it when I married my first husband, Marvin. I changed from Episcopalian to Baptist.

Christians are made, not born.

I think with artists and celebrities, you want to be simultaneously supportive of their conversions without putting too much hope and weight into it.

The act of writing surprises me all the time. A miraculous thing happens when you have an idea and you want to convert it into words... and then you start to create a work of art, and that's another miracle, and it remains mysterious to the writer, or to this writer anyway.

Despite the common perception in the West, the Muslim conquerors did not force conversion upon the conquered peoples; indeed, they did not even encourage it. The fact is that the financial and social advantages of being an Arab Muslim in the eighth and ninth centuries were such that Islam quickly became an élite clique, which a non-Arab could join only through a complex process that involved becoming first the client of an Arab.

dream interpretation were ways of converting our little personal miseries into big robust myths

No Jew was ever fool enough to turn Christian unless he was a clever man.

When the Lord Jesus Christ gives a man remission of sins, He also gives him repentance.

History is replete with instances of men, who, by dying with courage and compassion on their lips converted the hearts of their violent opponents.

Surely, conversion is a matter between man and his Maker who alone knows His creatures' hearts.

Jackson was not a religious man when he came to Lexington.

The conversion of Paul was no conversion at all; it was Paul who converted the religion that has raised one man above sin and death.

I believe in conversion of mankind, not its destruction.

Who is it that said that 'you have not converted a man because you have silenced him?' This is true of the use of the military on people.

To aim to convert a man by miracles is a profanation of the soul.