Culture Quote by V. S. Naipaul

To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say 'my ancestral…

— V. S. Naipaul

People talk about preaching to the converted, which is total codswallop rubbish. There is no such thing as being converted forever - absolutely no…

— Vanessa Redgrave

We are not converted only once in our lives but many times and this endless series of conversions and inner revolutions leads to our…

— Thomas Merton

It's very, very hard to affect culture. And you can get surprised thinking you're farther down the path of change than you really are…

— Carol Bartz

Anybody who was easily converted was not worth converting.

— Milton Friedman

The great danger of conversion in all ages has been that when the religion of the high mind is offered to the lower mind,…

— George Bernard Shaw

Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties.

— Dalai Lama

Conversion does not mean a change of outward appearance; rather it requires a change of mind and results in a transformed life.

— Bartholomaus Ziegenbalg

I shall never be converted, and I shall remain true to my old religion of the classics until my life's end.

— Richard Strauss

Even if I should never see a native converted, God may design by my patience and continuance in the Word to encourage future missionaries.

— Henry Martyn

Conversion does not make us perfect, but it does catapult us into a total experience of discipleship that affects - and infects - every…

— Richard J. Foster

People tend to believe that to be modern you have to disengage from your heritage, but it's not true.

— Mozah bint Nasser Al Missned