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Conversion Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- Every story of conversion is the story of a blessed defeat.
- If conversion makes no improvements in a man's outward actions then I think his 'conversion' was largely imaginary.
- Dyson and Tolkien were the immediate human causes of my conversion. Is any pleasure on earth as great as a circle of Christian friends by…
- If conversion to Christianity makes no improvement in a man's outward actions – if he continues to be just a snobbish or spiteful or envious…
- There is something in natural affection which will lead it on to eternal love more easily than natural appetite could be led on. But there's…
- I think we must fully face the fact that when Christianity does not make a man very much better, it makes him very much worse...…
More Conversion Quotes
- I prayed fifteen years for the conversion of my oldest brother. When he seemed to be getting further and further away from… — Reuben Archer Torrey
- Living a spiritual life requires a change of heart, a conversion. Such a conversion may be marked by a sudden inner change,… — Henri Nouwen
- Should we not press it home upon our consciences that the sole object of our conversion was not the salvation of our… — Lottie Moon
- Did a Magdalene, a Paul, a Constantine, an Augustine become mountains of ice after their conversion? Quite the contrary. We should never… — Frances Xavier Cabrini
- We face so many challenges in life: poverty, distress, humiliation, the struggle for justice, persecutions, the difficulty of daily conversion, the effort… — Pope Francis
- I am against conversion (to Buddhism). In my speech at UN, the first thing I said was that I am for conversion,… — S. N. Goenka
- The main goal of divine Providence in [allowing] the discovery of these tribes and lands . . . is . . .… — Bartolome de las Casas
- The test of a man's conversion is whether he has enough Christianity to get it to other people. If he hasn't, there… — Sam Shoemaker