Conversion Quotes
Conversion Quote of the day
The only conversion involved in Vipassana is from misery to happiness, from bondage to liberation.
Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion - it is a daily process whereby you grow to be more and more like Christ.
People go through three conversions: The conversion of their head, their heart, and their pocketbook. Unfortunately, not all at the same time.
Conversion is a complete surrender to Jesus. It's a willingness to do what he wants you to do.
Knowing that the gospel is true is the essence of a testimony. Consistently being true to the gospel is the essence of conversion.
It is no longer a question of a Christian going about to convert others to the faith, but of each one being ready to listen to the other and so to grow together in mutual understanding.
Why are black folks singing Amazing Grace which is a song about a white slaver's conversion?
If someone is truly converted, they will publicly confess Christ in word and deed. That does not mean presenting them in front of the church on the night of their supposed conversion.
The gospel of Christ has never needed the gimmicks of man to effect conversion in the soul
All my desire was the conversion of the heathen... I declare, now I am dying, I would not have spent my life otherwise for the whole world.
I'm fishing for men with a certain kind of bait, and the bait that I am offering is not a candy; it's a very specific thing that I'm offering, which is a deep gospel and a deep conversion.
Pride, anger, gluttony, and idleness are sometimes conquered, but the conversion of a malicious and envious mind is a kind of miracle.
The evidence of conversion is not a decision card filled out, it's a life being lived out.
God knew what we were before conversion - wicked, guilty, and defiled; yet He loved us. He knows what we will be after conversion - weak, erring, and frail; yet He loves us.
True conversion means turning not only from sin but also from depending on self-made righteousness.
The conversion of a soul is the miracle of a moment, but the manufacture of a saint is the task of a lifetime.
Conversion is not putting a man in an armchair and taking him easily to heaven. It is the beginning of a mighty conflict, in which it costs much to win the victory.
Remember also, the present is your only time to be saved. There is no believing, no repenting, no conversion in the grave---no minister will speak to you there. This is the time of conversion.
Stories are the creative conversion of life itself into a more powerful, clearer, more meaningful experience. They are the currency of human contact.
The single greatest invention man ever conceived in the dollar bill, because I don't want to know the conversion rate for coconuts.
In the gospel of Jesus, sincere and costly discipleship always accompanies genuine conversion. The gospel of Jesus teaches men that a mere profession of faith alone is no sound evidence of salvation.
I shall never be converted, and I shall remain true to my old religion of the classics until my life's end.
Always remember that there is no conversion to God if there is no conversion to the oppressed.
It is impossible to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this: the conversion of the law into an instrument of plunder.
I prayed fifteen years for the conversion of my oldest brother. When he seemed to be getting further and further away from any hope of conversion, I prayed on.
One of the things I do in my cookbooks is I will do a conversion from outdoor to indoor grilling so you can do it year-round.
All writers, musicians, artists, choreographers/dancers, etc., work with the stuff of their experiences. It's the translation of it, the conversion of it, the shaping of it that makes for the drama.
The joy a person is usually seen to express at the conversion of another to his opinion is seldom more than the impulse of egotistical satisfaction at being considered worthy of didactic imitation.
Social responsibility becomes an aspect not of Christian mission only, but also of Christian conversion. It is impossible to be truly converted to God without being thereby converted to our neighbor.
The test of a man's conversion is whether he has enough Christianity to get it to other people. If he hasn't, there is something wrong.
True conversion occurs as you continue to act upon the doctrines you know are true and keep the commandments, day after day, month after month.
Conversion is a turning onto the right road. The next thing to do is to walk on it.
Conversion does not mean a change of outward appearance; rather it requires a change of mind and results in a transformed life.
Reforming the social structures which perpetuate poverty and the exclusion of the poor first requires a conversion of mind and heart.
While many Islamic countries pay lip service to the idea of freedom of religion, they don't put up with conversion from Islam to another religion.
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.
If family religion were duly attended to and properly discharged, I think the preaching of the Word would not be the common instrument of conversion.
God is not glorified in any transaction upon earth so much as in the conversion of a sinner.
If conversion makes no improvements in a man's outward actions then I think his 'conversion' was largely imaginary.
Gaining insight into one's underlying motives, it seems, is more like a belief conversion than a self-discovery process
Is our situation not dismal? Wonderland is so discombobulated that lady bugs have turned belligerent and enlisted in the queen's army! Punish their conversion!
My method is conversion, not coercion, it is self-suffering, not the suffering of the tyrant. I know that method to be infallible.
Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my intuition had always known.
What is at issue is the conversion of the mind from the twilight of error to the truth, that climb up into the real world which we shall call true philosophy.