Dirty work Quote by Mavis Gallant

Conversion comes as we live pure and virtuous lives and enjoy the companionship of the Holy Ghost.

— Bonnie L. Oscarson

I have known men who thought the object of conversion was to cleanse them as a garment is cleansed, and that when they are…

— Henry Ward Beecher

“Real conversion is an experience of repentance and forgiveness before God. It is not merely praying a prayer, joining a Christian church, or receiving…

— R.C. Sproul

For often at Church I've seen the stained high glass Pour out the Virgin and Saints, twist and untwist The mortal youth of Christ…

— Allen Tate

“She was made after the time of ribs and mud. By papal decree there were to be no more people born of the ground…

— Salvador Plascencia

Conversion is an offering of self, of love, and of loyalty we give to God in gratitude for the gift of testimony.

— David A. Bednar

I hope in God, I pray on, and look yet for the answer. They are not converted yet, but they will be.

— George Muller

“Sanctification comes from the Holy Spirit.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Like many visitors, they had been unnerved by the inimitable creepiness of the Holy Sepulchre, a grimly gaudy, theopathical Turkish bathhouse where their childhood…

— Robert Stone

“I am not a churchgoing man. Strangled in the vines of form and choked with ritual Christians, Sunday service held no appeal for me…

— Randall Robinson

“They say (if I remember rightly) that a public-school man is clean inside and out. As if everyone did not know that while saints…

— G.K. Chesterton

“But when I lean over the chasm of myself— it seems my God is dark and like a web: a hundred roots silently drinking.…

— Rainer Maria Rilke