Conversion Quotes
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Every single work of art is the fulfillment of a prophecy; for every work of art is the conversion of an idea into an image.
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Our conversion comes step by step, line upon line. We first build a foundation of faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.
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The house had probably cost a couple of million quid, with its two stories plus loft conversion, red brick, and detailing on the porch roof that hinted at Arts and Crafts without actually making it over the finishing line. It was at least mercifully free of pebble-dash and fake half-timbering. They’d retained the original sash windows but installed the venetian blinds that have replaced net curtains as the genteel response to sharing your neighborhood with other human beings.
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I used to be a Catholic. I left because I object to conversion by concussion. If you don't agree with what they teach, you get clobbered over the head until you do. All that does is change the shape of the head.
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The Christian is called upon to be the partner of God in the work of the conversion of men.
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In his book Stand Ye In Holy Places, President Harold B. Lee wrote that one is converted when his eyes see what he ought to see, his ears hear what he ought to hear and his heart understands what he ought to understand. "And what he ought to see, hear and understand is truth-eternal truth-and then practice it. That is conversion," he wrote.
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The figure of the enthusiast who has just discovered jogging or a new way to fix tofu can be said to stand or, more accurately, to tremble on the threshold of conversion, as the representative American.
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I own I never really warmed To the reformer or reformed. And yet conversion has its place Not halfway down the scale of grace.
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Gaining insight into one's underlying motives, it seems, is more like a belief conversion than a self-discovery process.
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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.
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Conversion must mean more than just being a 'card-carrying' member of the church with a tithing receipt, a membership card, a temple recommend, etc. It means to overcome the tendencies to criticize and to strive continually to improve inward weaknesses and not merely the outward appearances.
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God is not glorified in any transaction upon earth so much as in the conversion of a sinner.
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The main goal of divine Providence in allowing the discovery of these tribes and lands . . . is . . . the conversion and well-being of souls, and to this goal everything temporal must necessarily be subordinated and directed.
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Conversion is not implanting eyes, for they exist already; but giving them a right direction, which they have not.
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When I'm talking to somebody, I'll put a piece of paper on the table and I'll write what I call a conversation summary - notes about the conversation on the piece of paper. At the end of the conversation, I'll take a picture on my phone and give the other person the original piece of paper.
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The conversion of a savage to Christianity is the conversion of Christianity to savagery.
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My own veneration for other faiths is the same as that for my own faith; therefore no thought of conversion is possible.
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And what he ought to see, hear and understand is truth-eternal truth-and then practice it. That is conversion.
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I have known men who thought the object of conversion was to cleanse them as a garment is cleansed, and that when they are converted they were to be hung up in the Lord's wardrobe, the door of which was to be shut, so that no dust could get at them. A coat that is not used the moths eat; and a Christian who is hung up so that he shall not be tempted, the moths eat him; and they have poor food at that.
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We should not think of conversion as the acceptance of a particular creed, but as a change of heart.
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I believe in conversion of mankind, not its destruction.
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Surely, conversion is a matter between man and his Maker who alone knows His creatures' hearts.
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Since satyagraha is a method of conversion and conviction, it seeks never to use the slightest coercion.
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My method is conversion, not coercion, it is self-suffering, not the suffering of the tyrant. I know that method to be infallible.