Quotes About Conversion

To adapt a play into a movie, you have to change it.

I've always said the one advantage an actor has of converting to a director is that he's been in front of the camera. He doesn't have to get in front of the camera again, subliminally or otherwise.

Sharpe had owned forty-three enslaved Black folks, but had caught religion during a sermon by a Great Awakening minister. After hearing the sermon, Edward Sharpe had decided he was against slavery. But instead of freeing the Black folks he owned and giving them a plot of land to work, he'd sold them for a profit, and bought land and started a university with the proceeds.

It was a wine jar when the molding began: as the wheel runs round why does it turn out a water pitcher?

Directing visitors from pay-per-click advertising to your home page is one of the most basic errors and wastes of money in online marketing.

nothing ever vanished, not totally. Instead, things altered shape, substance, meaning.

The function of a nutrient is to become transmuted, not to leave unaltered traces.

La función de un elemento nutritivo es la de transmutarse, no la de imprimir huellas indelebles.

What goes into a salt-mine becomes salt.

Todo lo que entra en una mina de sal se convierte en sal.

la experiencia de conversión, de cualquier clase que ella sea, tiene como común denominador un derrumbamiento total del ego.

All Christian churches in China practice some form of healing, including Three-Self churches. In fact, according to some surveys, 90% of new believers cite healing as a reason for their conversion. This is especially true in the countryside where medical facilities are often inadequate or non-existent. —Edmond Tang

Muslims did not force religious conversion and, except for Egypt, expanded into areas with sparse populations.

Vertical search engines that match your business, service or products with a target market offer you a higher conversion rate than traditional search engines. Because they have already qualified their interest by coming to a search engine with a specific focus, searchers will be more receptive to targeted advertising.

My family practised our faith in a relaxed manner. My mum Fiona was brought up a Christian; her dad was a vicar. But she fell in love with my dad David and converted to Judaism to be with him.

In the early days I had a very black-and-white view of everything. I think that's kind of natural for anyone who's just embraced Islam - or any religion - as a convert. It was important for me to duck out of the fast and furious life I'd been living as a pop star. I was in a different mood.

Fire isn't always an element of destruction. Classical alchemical doctrine teaches that it also has dominion over another province: change.

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Energy can't be destroyed, only converted into something different. So when a person dies, where does that energy go?

Faithful biblical preaching helps to decrease the number of false converts in the church, since reprobates would find the true Christian faith intolerable once they realize what it teaches. The truth attracts the elect, but repels the reprobates (1 Corinthians 1:18):

God had chosen certain individuals to receive salvation, and he sent Jesus Christ to die for them and to pay for their sins. He has appointed a time for each of these chosen ones to be summoned and converted.

God has sovereignly foreordained their complete salvation before the foundation of the world, and because he powerfully preserves them after their conversion. After regeneration, the Spirit of God continues to work within them, powerfully causing them to strive for true knowledge and holiness.

The drive to convert people's minds and hearts has caused more grief, more suffering, more loss of life than any desire for property, riches, or even the necessities of survival.

Both Mum and Dad were converts to Catholicism, and normally if you convert to Catholicism you have thought about it more than someone who just grew up with it, taking it for granted.