Quotes About Conversions

#1. You can hope and wish and pray that those things are legitimate conversions and that [Hillary Clinton] now is a different candidate, a person with a different philosophy. That's something that, you know, sometimes, yes, it's hard to believe.

Jonathan Tasini

#2. Simple assent to the gospel, divorced from a transforming commitment to the living Christ, is by Biblical standards less than faith, and less than saving, and to elicit only assent of this kind would be to secure only false conversions.

J.I. Packer

#3. And believers were the more added to the Lord, multitudes both of men and women (Acts 5:14)- So not only was there Holy Ghost boldness and Holy Ghost power and Holy Ghost conviction, but also Holy Ghost conversions.

Oswald J. Smith

#4. States have their conversions and periods as well as naturall bodies.

George Herbert

#5. If we want revivals, we must revive our reverence for the Word of God. If we want conversions, we must put more of God's Word into our sermons.8 His gospel preaching was grounded

Steven J. Lawson

#6. It seemed to me that Mr. Forrester would approve of a woman who could follow him in conversation and not be baffled by ledgers and currency conversions. I had grossly overestimated him.

Gwenn Wright

#7. A Christianity that does not have as its primary focus the deepening of passions for God is a false Christianity, no matter how zealously it seeks conversions or how forcefully it advocates righteous behavior.

J.D. Greear

#8. I understand the bad rap that 3-D is getting because the conversions are crappy and because the films aren't designed for 3-D. It's a completely different medium.

Alfonso Cuaron

#9. True conversions consist in the choice of a new audience, that is, of a new world. All that was once familiar is now seen in startlingly new ways.

James P. Carse

#10. And although I see few results, future missionaries will see conversions following every sermon. May they not forget the pioneers who worked in the thick gloom with few rays to cheer, except such as flow from faith in the precious promises of God's Word.

David Livingstone

#11. We tell our portfolio companies that it's really important to be metrics-driven and to track their conversions. It goes back to building that scalable sales model.

Devon McDonald

#12. He seeks conversions, not just votes. If

Sam Frizell

#13. Why must conversions always come so late? Why do people always apologize to corpses?

David Brin

#14. However life, unlike art, has an irritating way of bumping and limping on, undoing conversions, casting doubt on solutions, and generally illustrating the impossibility of living happily or virtuously ever after.

Iris Murdoch

#15. Don't optimize for conversions, optimize for revenue.

Neil Patel

#16. She had generated alternative versions of herself. She had insisted at brutal cost on these conversions. Layering her life, only to strip it bare. Only to be alone in the end. Her life had been paired down to its solitary components.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#17. Sadism ... is a massive cultural fact that appeared precisely at the end of the eighteenth century and that constitutes one of the greatest conversions of the occidental imagination ... madness of desire, the insane delight of love and death in the limitless presumption of appetite.

Michel Foucault

#18. We are too busy to pray, and so we are too busy to have power. We have a great deal of activity, but we accomplish little; many services but few conversions; much machinery but few results.

R.A. Torrey

#19. Filmmakers have to commit to making 3-D films properly like Jim Cameron did and not do cheap conversions at the tail end of the process.

Peter Jackson

#20. Like deathbed conversions, last paragraph soul-saving does not convince.

Rosellen Brown

#21. I think very few people realize how much the separation of church and state has to do with the fact that Americans are not only more religious than a lot of other people in the world but that conversions are much more common here.

Susan Jacoby

#22. It was only in Palo Alto that I searched "Rachav Binder" and "Rach Binder," got an undousable flame of her defense of an article of mine critical of the Mormon Church's databasing of Holocaust victims in order to speed their posthumous conversions

Joshua Cohen

#23. False conversions are a wart on the face of Christian evangelism.

Kevin Roose

#24. Conversions were easy, but making full-time disciples was hard.

Larry Eskridge

#25. 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.

Thomas Merton

#26. People go through three conversions: The conversion of their head, their heart, and their pocketbook. Unfortunately, not all at the same time.

Martin Luther

#27. If the doctrine of a church is that people outside of Christ will face an eternity in hell, yet the culture is one that does not celebrate conversions or evangelistic witness, the culture of the church will contradict its doctrinal stance by continually focusing inward instead of outward.

Matt Chandler

#28. If advertisers want to decorate their ads to increase their conversions by showing what users think, that's a good thing.

Mitch Kapor

#29. We are loping sequences of chemical conversions, acting ourselves converted. We are twists of genes acting ourselves twisted; we are wicks of burning neuroses acting ourselves wicked. And nothing to be done about it. And nothing to be done about it.

Gregory Maguire

#30. There are three conversions necessary (for the Christian life): the conversion of the heart, the mind, and the purse.

Martin Luther

#31. It is a very solemn delusion when ministers think they are prospering, and yet do not hear of conversions.

Charles Spurgeon

#32. And they would go not with an eye to gaining converts but with an eye to meeting need. The conversions would take care of themselves.

David Wilkerson

#33. Martin Luther said that "people go through three conversions: The conversion of their head, their heart and their pocketbook. Unfortunately, not all at the same time."2

John W. Pearson

#34. As to the value of conversions, God alone can judge. God alone can know how wide are the steps which the soul has to take before it can approach to a community with Him, to the dwelling of the perfect, or to the intercourse and friendship of higher natures.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#35. African church is a fusion of half bible truth and abundance of superstition, the latter aspect, leaving nothing remaining for the oracle.

Aihebholo-oria Okonoboh