Quotes About Conversion

Free is not a magic bullet. Giving away what you do will not make you rich by itself. You have to think creatively about how to convert the reputation and attention you can get from free into cash.

The superior force of despotic regimes is disarmed not through violence but through conversion.

Although most Christian churches advocate some sort of mission to non-Christians, no Jewish group advocates a mission to non-Jews. Proselytization seems to be foreign to Judaism.

All the changes that have happened in my career have been since I left the Mormon faith.

All conviction - and so, necessarily, conversion - is based on the motor and emotional aspects of the mind.

We went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative[s]," wrote one Bostonian, "and waked up stark mad abolitionists."7

Grace, he's done a complete three-sixty.

flipping"—changing from one state of mind to another.

The best hiding place was love. Thus the conversion from pristine sadism to fabricated hatred, to fraudulent love.

When I learned how repulsive this disinterested violence was, that it was repulsive because it was disinterested, my floundered about for refuge. The best hiding place was love. Thus the conversion from pristine sadism to fabricated hatred, to fraudulent love.

Getting into God's kingdom comes by way of the process known as conversion, but getting God's kingdom to visibly manifest itself in the daily abundant life comes through your commitment.

Synagogue Leaders 1. If people are attracted to Judaism and want to convert to Judaism, are we willing to make conversion more accessible? If so, how would we do so? 2. How can we allow people who are attracted to Jewish ideas to engage our community institutions even if they don't want to convert to Judaism? 3. What program changes need to happen for our institutions to effectively share Jewish thought in the marketplace?

Haven't two hundred years of failed missionary work overseas taught anybody anything? You can't convert people to anything - whether religion, or something as inane as our flicks.

the sound of something irrevocably giving up its shape and becoming, in an instant, something new.

The spy also warned his monarch that the English would set about converting the Indians not to the Roman Catholic faith, but to the hated Protestant faith. "The preparations they are making here are the most urgent they know how to make, for they have seen to it that the ministers, in their sermons, stress the importance of filling the world with their religion.… In this way a good sum of money is being collected.

millions of spiritual people are seeking to change society by converting everyone else into becoming members of their specific group. In my humble opinion, this can never work.

Well, like, the screenplay is about the book, so, like, it's kind of the book, only in different form, like the way iced coffee is still coffee even though it's cold.

The aim of therapy is to convert neurotic suffering into ordinary human misery.

My wife converted me to religion. I never believed in hell until I married her.

But their overall effect was to overemphasize immediate personal conversion to Christ instead of a studied period of reflection and conviction; emotional, simple, popular preaching instead of intellectually careful and doctrinally precise sermons; and personal feelings and relationship to Christ instead of a deep grasp of the nature of Christian teaching and ideas.

My brother and I have converted to Christianity, and my other brother and sister are still Sikh. So for me, it's not something that I ever want to be judgmental on. I know my parents are two people of a very strong faith. I respect all that they've done in raising their four kids and in the opportunities that they've given us.

Conversion is a change of masters. Will we not do as much for our new master, the Lord Jesus, as we did once for our old tyrant lusts?

Testimony is the beginning of and a prerequisite to continuing conversion. Testimony is a point of departure; it is not an ultimate destination. Strong testimony is the foundation upon which conversion is established. Testimony alone is not and will not be enough to protect us in the latter-day storm of darkness and evil in which we are living.

I went to America to convert the Indians, but, oh, who shall convert me? Who, what, is he that will deliver me from this evil heart of unbelief?