Converted Quotes

191 quotes by 167 authors

Nothing in nature is exhausted in its first use...In God, every end is converted into a new means. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The sorrow that lay cold in her mother's heart... converted it into a tomb. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Christ did not die to forgive sinners who go on treasuring anything above seeing and savoring God. And people who would be happy in heaven… — John Piper
Just as there are laws of Conservation of Matter and Energy, so there are in fact Laws of Conservation of Pain and Joy. Neither can… — Spider Robinson
I...have always known that my destiny was, above all, a literary destiny â€” that bad things and some good things would happen to me, but… — Jorge Luis Borges
We are loping sequences of chemical conversions, acting ourselves converted. We are twists of genes acting ourselves twisted; we are wicks of burning neuroses acting… — Gregory Maguire
Most artists are brought to their vocation when their own nascent gifts are awakened by the work of a master. That is to say, most… — Lewis Hyde
In fact her maturity and blood kinship converted her passion to fever, so it was more affliction than affection. It literally knocked her down at… — Toni Morrison
You, and those like you, take your fill of pleasure on earth by making the life of such as me bitter and black with sorrow;… — Thomas Hardy
Once you believe in yourself and see your soul as divine and precious, you'll automatically be converted to a being who can create miracles. — Wayne Dyer
Racing cars which have been converted for road use never really work. It's like making a hard core adult film, and then editing it so… — Jeremy Clarkson
Energy can't be destroyed, only converted into something different. So when a person dies, where does that energy go? — Jodi Picoult
As I travel through life, I gather experiences that lie imprinted on the deepest strata of memory, and there they ferment, are transformed, and sometimes… — Isabel Allende
Through eons of living in a land so poor there was little to eat but oats, they had as usual converted necessity into a virtue,… — Diana Gabaldon
It is so important to see that we are all converted, that we have in our hearts a conviction concerning this great work. It is… — Gordon B. Hinckley
Nick spoke again. "Her legitimacy will be questioned." Gabriel thought for several moments. "If our mother married her father, it means that the marchioness must… — Sarah MacLean
As for the bracelet Mom wore to the funeral, what I did was I converted Dadâ€™s last voice message into Morse code, and I used… — Jonathan Safran Foer
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… — John Stott
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him. — John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn
The question is not, do we go to church; the question is, have we been converted. The crux of Christianity is not whether or not… — Joan D. Chittister

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