Quotes About Conversion

I say, then, mortification is not the present business of unregenerate men. God calls them not to it as yet; conversion is their work, -- the conversion of the whole soul, -- not the mortification of this or that particular lust.

I'm not sure I like their plan for converting us to their religion, seeing as it involves dying and all.

Since we humans are meaning-makers to the core, such a powerful experience demands an explanation. In an evangelical conversion context like a revival meeting or missionary work, religious interpretations of the snapping experience are provided both before and after it occurs.

Conversion is a very, very important part of what you are doing. We will have a responsibility to report to Heavenly Father regarding those we bring into the Church.

When my father died, I had a real experience with Christ, a real conversion with Christ and I had it in a Oneness church.

I wish there were more true conversion, and then there would not be so much backsliding, and, for fear of suffering, living at ease, when there are so few to contend for Christ and His cause.

One can live happily bearing all sorts of weaknesses inside, he just needs to convert them into strengths!

If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.

Great dislike to the Bible was shown by those who conversed with me about it, and several have remarked to me, at different times, that if it were not for that book, Catholics would never be led to renounce their own faith.

We have converted huge swaths of land and ocean into human habitats where we live and grow food and harvest energy. But there's been a sea change in the past century.

The key to financial freedom and great wealth is a person's ability or skill to convert earned income into passive income and/or portfolio income.

Evangelicals have been distinctive in featuring the crisis conversion. But what is essential to Christianity is the whole life committed to God, from the beginning of faith until death.

The truly changed, truly converted, truly Christian heart can say with John Newton, "I am not what I ought to be. I am not what I wish to be. I am not what I hope to be. Yet I can truly say, I am not what I once was. By the grace of God, I am what I am.

That one now hears the word "woke" everywhere is a giveaway that spiritual conversion, not political agreement, is the demand. Relentless speech surveillance, the protection of virgin ears, the inflation of venial sins into mortal ones, the banning of preachers of unclean ideas -- all these campus identity follies have their precedents in American revivalist religion.

John Connally's conversion to the GOP raised the intellectual level of both parties.

Every time people are converted, it is because God has come to them and overcome their ignorance by showing the Gospel to them.

this vindictive heathen woman was going to be changed to an ardent convert to the Christian faith.

The work of Olga was completed—Russia was Christianized (992)!

every moment of our life is a . . . kind of turning.

For people who undergo religious conversions, individuality is replaced by ideology, and very little room is left for personal growth or expression.

Our faith, our conversion, and our eternal salvation, are not of works, lest any man should boast. These things are not brought to pass by any thing done by us, therefore all boasting is shut out. All is the free gift of God, and the effect of being quickened by his power. It was his purpose, to which he prepared us, by blessing us with the knowledge of his will, and his Holy Spirit producing such a change in us, that we should glorify God by our good conversation, and perseverance in holiness.

God will delight to show them mercy, will reckon their conversion a return for all the expense he has been at upon them. There is always joy in heaven. God rejoiceth in all his works, but particularly in the works of his grace. He rejoiceth to do good to penitent sinners, with his whole heart and his whole soul. He rejoiceth not only in the conversion of churches and nations, but even over one sinner that repenteth, though but one.

Conversion and sanctification are the renewing of the mind, a change not of the substance, but of the qualities of the soul.

Converted sinners ought frequently to reflect upon the sinfulness and misery of the state they were in by nature.