Quotes About Conversion

To say, "I've been converted and that's that, " is to say you have decided to quit growing. If life is about anything, it is about growing. The day I quit changing and learning is the day I die.

What goes into a salt-mine becomes salt.

I have often thought of doing a story with someone either as a human being or as a robot who, by a series of stages, changes into the other end of the spectrum. By the story's end, he'd be either totally robotic or totally human, the opposite of what he once was. And possibly... bring him back again.

To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say 'my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn't matter.'

Standing at a Christian music festival in Asbury, Ky., in the spring of 1978, I gave my life to Jesus Christ, and that's changed everything.

As long as he doesn't convert it into action, it does not matter how much a man thinks about his repentance.

Slavery is an institution for converting men into monkeys.

Man is born with his face turned away from God. When he truly repents, he is turned right round toward God; he leaves his old life.

If conversion makes no improvements in a man's outward actions then I think his 'conversion' was largely imaginary.

The Spirit never makes men the instruments of converting others until they feel that they cannot do it themselves; that their skill in argument, in persuasion, in management, avails nothing.

A man to be converted has to give up his will, his ways, and his thoughts.

A converted man will not wish to go to heaven alone

Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.

Persecution, in short, is like the goldsmith's stamp on real silver and gold - it is one of the marks of a converted man.

Your great employment is to bring the individual souls of men to Christ.

What about you, Ian? Why don't you come too? Can't. I'm Jewish. You are not Jewish! You're Italian. I was thinking of converting.

The conversion of agnostic High Tories to the Anglican church is always rather suspect. It seems too pat and predictable, too clearly a matter of politics rather than faith.

The reason the apostles preached the message of Jesus Christ was not for individual conversion alone. The apostles did not preach so that there simply would be a new me, but so that there would be a new we.

Conversion is the radical turn from an enslaved life of pursuing sin to a free life of pursuing and worshiping God. Conversion is a change of life, not merely a decision.

A healthy church member works to make sure that he himself is converted, but he also works to make sure that his evangelistic efforts are informed by a biblical understanding of conversion.

unhappy Catholics should just become Protestants.

Cada día debemos renovar nuestro propósito y excitarnos a mayor fervor, como si hoy fuese el primer día de nuestra conversión, y decir: Señor, Dios mío, ayúdame en mi buen intento y en tu santo servicio, y dame gracia para que comience hoy perfectamente, porque no es nada cuanto hice hasta aquí. I Par. 14, 11

I came to know Christ at the age of 13 during church camp at Glorieta, New Mexico.

I have no doubt that for some to become a Christian may involve an experience of ecstasy. Yet I do not think such an experience is necessary for someone to be a Christian.