Converts Quotes
98 quotes by 89 authors
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My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts; my father was an evangelist, a religious teacher.…
— Chinua Achebe
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There is no secret in the mystery of life stronger and more beautiful than that attachment which converts the silence of a virgin's spirit into…
— Khalil Gibran
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A proud man is satisfied with his own good opinion, and does not seek to make converts to it.
— William Hazlitt
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The artist does not illustrate science; ... [but] he frequently responds to the same interests that a scientist does, and expresses by a visual synthesis…
— Lewis Mumford
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The three great apostles of practical atheism, that make converts without persecuting, and retain them without preaching, are wealth, health and power.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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With its array of gadgets and machines, all powered by energies that are destructive of land or air or water, and connected to work, market,…
— Wendell Berry
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Charming women can true converts make, We love the precepts for the teacher's sake.
— George Farquhar
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The Holy Ghost converts [us] from carnality to spirituality. It cleanses, heals, and purifies the soul. . . . . Faith in the Lord Jesus…
— Marion G. Romney
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A man in twenty-four hours converts as much as seven ounces of carbon into carbonic acid; a milch cow will convert seventy ounces, and a…
— Michael Faraday
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The catalyst that converts any physical location - any environment if you will - into a place, is the process of experiencing deeply. A place…
— Alan Gussow
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Thinking is progress. Non-thinking is stagnation of the individual, organisation and the country. Thinking leads to action. Knowledge without action is useless and irrelevant. Knowledge…
— Abdul Kalam
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Quorum and group leaders should provide the leading voice and laboring oar in every ward and branch council regarding retention of converts.
— D. Todd Christofferson
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Force may make hypocrites, but it can never make converts.
— William Penn
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Consider the problem of taking showers with Christians. They are, after all, constantly going on about the business of witnessing in the hopes of making…
— Stanley Hauerwas
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Religion converts despair, which destroys, into resignation, which submits.
— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
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The fact is that, we are not producing saints. We are making converts to an effete type of Christianity, that bears little resemblance to that…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Managing the power of choice, with all its creative and spiritual implications, is the essence of the human experience. All spiritual teachings are directed toward…
— Caroline Myss
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Both Mum and Dad were converts to Catholicism, and normally if you convert to Catholicism you have thought about it more than someone who just…
— Tony Abbott
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The merit of Marx is that he suddenly produces a qualitative change in the history of social thought. He interprets history, understands its dynamic, predicts…
— Che Guevara
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The radiations that pour upon the earth cause the biosphere to take on properties unknown to lifeless planetary surfaces, and thus transform the face of…
— Vladimir Vernadsky
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