Converts Quotes

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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
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
A proud man is satisfied with his own good opinion, and does not seek to make converts to it. — William Hazlitt
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
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
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
Charming women can true converts make, We love the precepts for the teacher's sake. — George Farquhar
The Holy Ghost converts [us] from carnality to spirituality. It cleanses, heals, and purifies the soul. . . . . Faith in the Lord Jesus… — Marion G. Romney
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
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
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
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
Force may make hypocrites, but it can never make converts. — William Penn
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
Religion converts despair, which destroys, into resignation, which submits. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
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
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
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
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
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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