Converted Quotes
191 quotes by 167 authors
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When I took the habit, the Lord immediately showed me how He favours those who do violence to themselves in order to serve Him. No…
— Teresa of Avila
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Whatever else it was, Adolf Hitler's short-lived regime was also a colossal industrial process by which the wealth and productive power of much of Europe…
— James Buchan
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As a precocious teen I dreamed of being Graham Greene. Well, as it turned out, I never wrote a great novel, sadly, and I never…
— Julie Burchill
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Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
— Thomas Carlyle
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As man sows, so shall he reap. In works of fiction, such men are sometimes converted. More often, in real life, they do not change…
— Charles W. Chesnutt
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The succession of individuals, connected by reproduction and belonging to a species, makes it possible for the specific form itself to last for ages. In…
— Ernst Haeckel
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There is more joy in heaven over a converted sinner than over a righteous person standing firm. A leader in battle has more love for…
— Pope Gregory I
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As base a thing as money often is, yet it can be transmuted into everlasting treasure. It can be converted into food for the hungry…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence, or learning.
— Frederick William Faber
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When I mount the scaffold at last these will be my farewell words to the sheriff: Say what you will against me when I am…
— H. L. Mencken
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The vanishing, volatile froth of the present which any shadow will alter, any thought blow away, any event annihilate, is every moment converted into the…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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An honest private man often grows cruel and abandoned when converted into an absolute prince. Give a man power of doing what he pleases with…
— Joseph Addison
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The wicked exist in this world either to be converted or that through them the good may exercise patience.
— Saint Augustine
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The writer who neglects punctuation, or mispunctuates, is liable to be misunderstood for the want of merely a comma, it often occurs that an axiom…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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The most convincing proof of the conversion of heat into living force [vis viva] has been derived from my experiments with the electro-magnetic engine, a…
— James Prescott Joule
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The clergy converted the simple teachings of Jesus into an engine for enslaving mankind and adulterated by artificial constructions into a contrivance to filch wealth…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The end and aim of spying in all its five varieties is knowledge of the enemy; and this knowledge can only be derived, in the…
— Sun Tzu
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The experience of [the African] bishops is that evangelization itself should be foremost, that the God of Jesus Christ must be known, believed in and…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Lord, by the words of consecration the substance of the bread and wine is converted into the substance of your Body and Blood. All powerful…
— Anthony Mary Claret
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I would like to start by emphasizing the importance of surfaces. It is at a surface where many of our most interesting and useful phenomena…
— Walter Houser Brattain
Who Wrote These Converted Quotes
167 authors contributed a total of 191 Converted Quotes, led by these top contributors: