Quotes about Converted

Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct. Votes: 2

Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence, or learning. Votes: 2

You have not converted a man because you have silenced him. Votes: 2

I hope in God, I pray on, and look yet for the answer. They are not converted yet, but they will be. Votes: 2

Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted. Votes: 2

It is extremely difficult for a Jew to be converted, for how can he bring himself to believe in the divinity of - another Jew? Votes: 2

I believe that a man is converted when first he hears the low, vast murmur of life, of human life, troubling his hitherto unconscious self. Votes: 2

I converted to Christianity because I was convinced by Jesus Christ as a character, as a personality. I loved him, his wisdom, his love, his unconditional love. Votes: 2

'Phantom of the Opera' started in my little 100-seater converted church in Britain with a stage where we did what we did. But it was the score itself was what made it. Votes: 2

To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say 'my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn't matter.' Votes: 2

When our Lord says, we must be converted and become as little children, I suppose he means also, that we must be sensible of our weakness, comparatively speaking, as a little child. Votes: 2

As man sows, so shall he reap. In works of fiction, such men are sometimes converted. More often, in real life, they do not change their natures until they are converted into dust. Votes: 2

In 1940, President Roosevelt called on American industry to become the 'great arsenal of democracy.' Automotive manufacturers in Michigan responded and converted their assembly lines from cars to tanks and helped America win World War II. Votes: 2

It's a story of little girls who are pressed into working in sweat shops in games, who spend all day doing repetitive grinding tasks like making shirts, which are then converted into gold and sold on eBay. Votes: 2

Every time a bit of information is erased, we know it doesn't disappear. It goes out into the environment. It may be horribly scrambled and confused, but it never really gets lost. It's just converted into a different form. Votes: 2

But how odd that in this heathen nation of empty pews, where churches' bare, ruined choirs are converted into luxury loft living, a Labour government - yes, a Labour government - is deliberately creating a huge expansion of faith schools. Votes: 2

There was reference made to a book written in Greek by a former Rabbi who had been converted to Christianity. There was reference to a publication of a high clergyman of Milan. Not even did Jews raise objections to that book. Votes: 2

We're a Muslim family, but we're also very cultured and we have a mixture of different religions. For example, my brother-in-law is Catholic, and my sister converted and my nephews are baptized. I have an uncle who just graduated and currently he's a priest. Votes: 2

I wear the Jewish star, but I'm not - I haven't converted to Judaism, and I'm not - I'm not - I'm not Jewish in the conventional sense because the Kaballah is a belief system that predates religion and predates Judaism as an organized religion. Votes: 2

But the Wisdom of God, which is His only-begotten Son, being in all respects incapable of change or alteration, and every good quality in Him being essential, and such as cannot be changed and converted, His glory is therefore declared to be pure and sincere. Votes: 2

It seemed that rebellion must have an unassailable base, something guarded not merely from attack, but from the fear of it: such a base as we had in the Red Sea Parts, the desert, or in the minds of the men we converted to our creed. Votes: 2

I have always marveled that so many religions exact such revenge against dissenters. It only weakens the appeal of their faith and contradicts any claims they might have made that 'all religions are basically the same.' If all religions were indeed the same, why not let someone be 'converted' to another religion? Votes: 2

As a precocious teen I dreamed of being Graham Greene. Well, as it turned out, I never wrote a great novel, sadly, and I never converted to Catholicism, happily, but I did do one thing he did. That is, in middle age I moved to a seaside town and got into a right barney with the local powers-that-be. Votes: 2

My mother's belief in spiritual healers grew stronger after our family went through a rough patch following my father's death. Sufi saint Karimullah Shah Kadri changed our lives, and all of us converted to Sufism. But it wasn't an instantaneous decision - it took us 10 years to convert. The change in religion was like washing away the past. Votes: 2

I'd come to the country to do my Thoreau bit, so I needed an office that looked out onto the woods for inspiration. I converted one of the bedrooms into my workspace and through its windows watched the wildlife appear each morning with the sunrise. Many were the days I would sit in wonder, coffee in hand, for hours. Votes: 2

My mother's family is Christian: her father was a Baptist lay preacher, and her brother, in a leap of Anglican upward mobility, became a vicar in the Church of Wales. But my mother converted to Islam on marrying my father. She was not obliged to; Muslim men are free to marry ahl al-kitab, or people of the Book - among them, Jews and Christians. Votes: 2

Dali was Renaissance man converted to psychoanalysis. Votes: 0

My mother converted, my mom converted to Judaism. Votes: 0

I don't care about preaching to the converted. Votes: 0

Anybody who was easily converted was not worth converting. Votes: 0

My mother converted to Catholicism to marry my father. Votes: 0

The entire Earth will be converted into a huge brain Votes: 0

My husband, Jim, converted to Judaism just before our wedding. Votes: 0

Do what you know and perception is converted into character. Votes: 0

You have not converted a man because you have silenced him. Votes: 0

Labour has converted to Europe because Europe has converted to socialism. Votes: 0

I converted a family-owned strip club into an improvisational acting theater. Votes: 0

Your thoughts don't matter if they are not converted into actions. Votes: 0

Each generation is converted by the saint who contradicts it most. Votes: 0

No one ever converted to Christianity because they lost the argument. Votes: 0

A converted man will not wish to go to heaven alone Votes: 0

I know that a man is converted when he starts to sing Votes: 0

Our tendency is to be converted to church and not to Christ. Votes: 0

Youth is a religion from which one always ends up being converted. Votes: 0

All the world has been converted and Washington is the modem Mecca. Votes: 0

As our knowledge is converted to wisdom, the door to opportunity is unlocked. Votes: 0

Christ preferred the poor; ever since I have been converted so have I. Votes: 0

One is not converted to christianity; one must be morbid enough for it. Votes: 0

Money could not be converted into capital if wage labour did not exist. Votes: 0

Ottawa - a sub-arctic lumber-village converted by royal mandate into a political cockpit. Votes: 0

The sorrow that lay cold in her mother's heart... converted it into a tomb. Votes: 0

Why then be perverted and follow thy flesh? Be it converted and follow thee. Votes: 0

I enjoy heaven already in my soul. My prayers are all converted into praises. Votes: 0

I've always thought preaching to the converted is just kind of futile and silly. Votes: 0

We must seek to be firmly rooted and converted to the gospel of Jesus Christ. Votes: 0

My wife converted me to religion. I never believed in hell until I married her. Votes: 0

The church is only a secular institution in which the half-educated speak to the half-converted. Votes: 0

People who think that once they are converted all will be happy, have forgotten Satan. Votes: 0

Slowly but surely, the U.S. military is being converted into a global oil-protection service. Votes: 0

No one had to worry about Peter after his conversion. Your investigators can be that converted. Votes: 0

Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order. Votes: 0

I've won every debate I've had with an atheist, and never converted even a single one. Votes: 0

A man to be converted has to give up his will, his ways, and his thoughts. Votes: 0

I had my house converted to the Colorado altitude, so I am always above sea level, Votes: 0

She simply converted an average face into beautiful face and a beautiful face into an angelic face. Votes: 0

The world will never be converted to God unitl Christians cry less and laugh and sing more. Votes: 0

Even the worst that happens to you can be converted into GOLD if you are clever enough. Votes: 0

When a pagan race comes in contact with a Christian race, they are converted, absorbed, or exterminated. Votes: 0

I was once a skeptic but was converted by the two missionaries on either side of my nose. Votes: 0

The picture is the imitation and converted reality of the goods, in short, an indirect substitute for reality. Votes: 0

Movies that tend to be converted or tend to be 3D in a late decision are not effective. Votes: 0

My only objective is to paint a Christ so moving that those who see him will be converted. Votes: 0

Nothing in nature is exhausted in its first use...In God, every end is converted into a new means. Votes: 0

All the Utopias will come to pass only when we grow wings and all people are converted into angels. Votes: 0

Sometimes what works in a book is too "in your face" when converted to the big screen and sound. Votes: 0

The wicked exist in this world either to be converted or that through them the good may exercise patience. Votes: 0

Most failures could have been converted into successes if someone had held on another minute or made more effort. Votes: 0

Popular poets are the parish priests of the Muse, retailing her ancient divinations to a long since converted public. Votes: 0

Energy can't be destroyed, only converted into something different. So when a person dies, where does that energy go? Votes: 0

I learned to play guitar at a young age and converted poems and stuff that I had written to songs. Votes: 0

You will win as many souls as God gives you, but no one will be converted by your own power. Votes: 0

I believe in preaching to the converted; for I have generally found that the converted do not understand their own religion. Votes: 0

I shall never be converted, and I shall remain true to my old religion of the classics until my life's end. Votes: 0

At the height of his popularity in 1977, Cat Stevens converted to Islam and dedicated his life to educational and philanthropic causes. Votes: 0

Being converted to Jesus is learning to so adore God that we would gladly renounce everything we have to follow Him. Votes: 0

We have converted our wounds into a type of relationship currency that we use in order to control situations and people. Votes: 0

We are challenged these days, but not changed; convicted, but not converted. We hear, but do not; and thereby we deceive ourselves. Votes: 0

Every sex noise can be converted into a note and frozen in a can of soda. Ask me about menstruation music today! Votes: 0

When I was nine years old, my family lost our home, and the six of us moved into my grandparents' converted garage. Votes: 0

When wireless is fully applied the earth will be converted into a huge brain, capable of response in every one of its parts. Votes: 0

Jesus suffered deeply because He loves us deeply! He wants us to repent and be converted so that He can fully heal us. Votes: 0

Holiness is irresistible. If even 10% of the world's population had it the whole world would be converted and happy before the year's end. Votes: 0

Before we can strengthen believers or win the lost, we must be converted from the self-life to the Christ-life. . . "Not I, but Christ." Votes: 0

People often mistake their imagination for their heart, & so often are convinced they are converted as soon as they start thinking of becoming converted. Votes: 0

If there's anything weirder than an introverted writer going to lots of social functions, it's an introverted writer being converted into an accidental guru. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

That is why I often find myself at such cross-purposes with the modern world: I have been a converted Pagan living among apostate Puritans. Votes: 0

History is replete with instances of men, who, by dying with courage and compassion on their lips converted the hearts of their violent opponents. Votes: 0

Even if I should never see a native converted, God may design by my patience and continuance in the Word to encourage future missionaries. Votes: 0

Persecution, in short, is like the goldsmith's stamp on real silver and gold - it is one of the marks of a converted man. Votes: 0

We are not converted only once in our lives but many times and this endless series of conversions and inner revolutions leads to our transformation. Votes: 0

I think these people [Al-Qaida, terrorists] need to be forcibly converted to Christianity ... It's the only thing that can probably turn them into human beings. Votes: 0

My study is a converted garage which is largely lined with bookshelves and cardboard boxes filled with manuscripts of my film scripts, plays and books. Votes: 0

I want all my stuff to be converted into digital format so I can have my reference library to carry with me wherever I go. Votes: 0

You cannot find, I believe, a case in the Bible where a man is converted without God's calling in some human agency--using some human instrument. Votes: 0

The conversion of Paul was no conversion at all; it was Paul who converted the religion that has raised one man above sin and death. Votes: 0

All converted people should labor to adorn the doctrine they profess by humility. If they can do nothing else, they can strive to be humble. Votes: 0

To be contemplative we must become converted to the consciousness that makes us one with the universe, in tune with the cosmic voice of God. Votes: 0

Bernie Sanders is usually speaking to the converted. He fires them up. It`s a completely different style of campaigning that he`s allergic to. Votes: 0

To be converted to faith in Jesus Christ is to return to the worship of the true God, and to dethrone all rivals to his authority. Votes: 0

The vanishing, volatile froth of the present which any shadow will alter, any thought blow away, any event annihilate, is every moment converted into the adamantine. Votes: 0

I would encourage them never to forget that they were not always vegans. The self-righteousness of the recently converted hurts, it does not help, other animals. Votes: 0

The audience usually has to be with you, I'm afraid. I always regarded myself as not even preaching to the converted, I was titillating the converted. Votes: 0

Handicaps can be converted into stepping stones on which one may climb toward some worthy goal, unless they are accepted as obstacles, and used as alibis. Votes: 0

To Arab Sunni Islamists, Iranians are gabrs (Zoroastrians) while Shi'ites, including Arab ones, are rafidis (heretics) who must be “re-converted” or put to death. Votes: 0

Money cannot be converted into houses or trained teachers or hospitals at the touch of a magic wand. There are limitations to our physical and intellectual resources. Votes: 0

In 1938, I was given a one-year teaching appointment, which was sensational for British universities. This was converted into the usual four-year contract for an Assistant Lecturer in 1939. Votes: 0

Oral delivery aims at persuasion and making the listener believe they are converted. Few persons are capable of being convinced the majority allow themselves to be persuaded. Votes: 0

Some women have said, 'Gee, here I am getting involved with this fat guy, what will people think of me?' But they were converted and sometimes surprised. Votes: 0

We become converted and spiritually self-reliant as we prayerfully live our covenants-through worthily partaking of the sacrament, being worthy of a temple recommend, and sacrificing to serve others. Votes: 0

It is the acid test of nonviolence that in a nonviolent conflict there is no rancor left behind, and in the end the enemies are converted into friends. Votes: 0

There really are three types of religious movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted. Votes: 0

Who is it that said that 'you have not converted a man because you have silenced him?' This is true of the use of the military on people. Votes: 0

The charismatics confused the holy liturgy with a school of samba, but than I was converted when I got to know them better and saw the good they do. Votes: 0

There really are three types of 'religious' movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted. Votes: 0

I'm always a person that's a little suspicious of anything that's been converted in post, but if I know that it's been originated, either in live-action or animation, I'm intrigued. Votes: 0

Frankly, I didn't know how I would react to Apple's over-hyped MP3 player until I used one. Now I would have a hard time parting with it: Consider me converted. Votes: 0

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 being thereby converted to our neighbor. Votes: 0

Man's inhumanity to man is not the last word. The truth lies deeper. It is economic slavery, the savage struggle for a crumb, that has converted mankind into wolves and sheep. Votes: 0

We have converted huge swaths of land and ocean into human habitats where we live and grow food and harvest energy. But there's been a sea change in the past century. Votes: 0

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, and insisted that they liked the stuff. Votes: 0

Even like as St. Paul was converted, just so are all others converted; for we all resist God, but the Holy Ghost draws the will of mankind, when he pleases, through preaching. Votes: 0

I've been offered radio but never done it, partly because the radio ideas that I've been asked to come up with, I've thought about them and then converted them to telly things. Votes: 0

If someone is truly converted, they will publicly confess Christ in word and deed. That does not mean presenting them in front of the church on the night of their supposed conversion. Votes: 0

In many churches, the message of justification- how to get right with God- is preached over and over again. But much less is said about sanctification- how to live after you're converted. Votes: 0

The beautiful souls of the world have an art of saintly alchemy, by which bitterness is converted into kindness, the gall of human experience into gentleness, ingratitude into benefits, insults into pardon. Votes: 0

Tom, my husband, who converted to Judaism when we got married, and as a consequence, we were learning about historical conversions to Judaism. Really, every time it pops up, it's very strange. Votes: 0

I had a '56 Ford, and my first car was a '49 Chevy. I converted it to a stick and used to race with the other high school kids down along the river. Votes: 0

We do not fail in our evangelism if we faithfully tell the gospel to someone who is not subsequently converted; we fail only if we do not faithfully tell the gospel at all. Votes: 0

We, in Africa, have no more need of being 'converted' to socialism than we have of being 'taught' democracy. Both are rooted in our past -- in the traditional society which produced us. Votes: 0

Ronald Reagan in the US was not a particularly popular president, but after his death sectors of wealth and power created a huge propaganda campaign that converted this disgraceful figure into a semi-divinity. Votes: 0

Our favorite: a former garbage dump converted into a riverside park. I first ran there more than 30 years ago when a marathon passed through this park that later became home to Pre's Trail. Votes: 0

If you would try out a preacher, send him to preach to farmers: if he cannot make the grade there, let him reconsider his call - or maybe he needs to be converted. Votes: 0

St. Peter announced the glad tidings of the Gospel to the people on the day of Pentecost, and converted, by the first Christian sermon, ever preached, three thousand - which formed the primitive Church. Votes: 0

I have never been converted to or even had much interest in spiritualism, occultism, Swedenborgianism or any particular religion. And I never, except occasionally for a laugh, visit the quacks who call themselves psychics. Votes: 0

Now the Bible tells us that we are all by nature, sinners, that we are slaves to sin and Satan, and that unless we are converted, or born again, we must be miserable forever. Votes: 0

God has sometimes converted wickedness into madness; and it is to the credit of human reason that men who are not in some degree mad are never capable of being in the highest degree wicked. Votes: 0

If a person professes faith in Christ and yet falls away or makes no progress in godliness, it does not mean that he has lost his salvation. It reveals that he was never truly converted. Votes: 0

I was 22 years old when I asked Christ to come into my heart. You cannot be born a Christian; you can only be converted. And that is by putting your faith and trust in Christ. Votes: 0