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Conversion brings a drive to learn. -- Henry B. Eyring
Conversion is a complete surrender to Jesus. It's a willingness to do what he wants you to do. -- Billy Sunday
Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties. -- Dalai Lama
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
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Conversion is a change of masters. Will we not do as much for our new master, the Lord Jesus, as we did once for our old tyrant lusts? -- Charles Spurgeon
Conversion is an enlarging, a deepening, and a broadening of the undergirding base of testimony. It is the result of revelation from God, accompanied by individual repentance, obedience, and diligence. -- David A. Bednar
Conversion is a daily thing. -- Jim Caviezel
Conversion is the work of the Holy Spirit. -- Greg Laurie
Conversion engages the mind as well as the emotions. -- Max Anders
Conversion without a clean heart is a denial of God and religion. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Testimony is to know and to feel,Conversion is to do and to become. -- Dallin H. Oaks
Conversion comes as we live pure and virtuous lives and enjoy the companionship of the Holy Ghost. -- Bonnie L. Oscarson
Conversion is a turning onto the right road. The next thing to do is to walk on it. -- Charles Spurgeon
Conversion is not implanting eyes, for they exist already; but giving them a right direction, which they have not -- Plato
Conversion does not mean a change of outward appearance; rather it requires a change of mind and results in a transformed life. -- Bartholomaus Ziegenbalg
Conversion is in its essence a normal adolescent phenomenon, incidental to the passage from the child's small universe to the wider intellectual and spiritual life of maturity. -- William James
Conversion does not make us perfect, but it does catapult us into a total experience of discipleship that affects - and infects - every sphere of our living. -- Richard J. Foster
I wrote my first song, 'Conversion', to this little hip-hop instrumental. I went to an open-mic, plugged my iPod into the P.A., and sang over the beat. -- Leon Bridges
Conversion is a very, very important part of what you are doing. We will have a responsibility to report to Heavenly Father regarding those we bring into the Church. -- Richard G. Scott
Conversion and zealotry, just like revelation and apostasy, are flip sides of the same coin, the currency of a political culture having more in common with religion than rational discourse. -- Norman G. Finkelstein
Conversion and zealotry, just like revelation and apostasy, are flip sides of the same coin, the currency of a political culture having more in common with religion than rational discourse. -- Norman G. Finkelstein
Every man or woman who turns to Christ must bear in mind that they are breaking with their old master, and enlisting under a new leader. Conversion is a revolutionary process. -- Theodore L. Cuyler
Conversion is not putting a man in an armchair and taking him easily to heaven. It is the beginning of a mighty conflict, in which it costs much to win the victory. -- J. C. Ryle
Conversion is not completing a ritual, it is commencing a relationship. The assurance of ritual is based on accurate words and memory. The assurance of relationship is based on a present posture of repentance and belief." -- J.D. Greear
Conversion by the Holy Spirit is a spiritual illumination of the soul. God's grace lights up the dark heart. And when a man has once been kindled at the cross of Christ, he is bound to shine. -- Theodore L. Cuyler
Conversion is the act of joining our hands to the pierced hand of the crucified Saviour. The new life begins with the taking of Christ's hand, and His taking hold, in infinite love, of our weak hands. -- Theodore L. Cuyler
Conversion is not only changing the faith. Conversion is changing the heart and working over there is the grace of God. Then only comes the question of change of faith. Nobody can force you, not even the holy prophets. -- Mother Teresa
Conversion requires a subtler mind. Architects don't like it, architects want to create their own landmark buildings so that people a few years hence will say, 'Oh, that building there is being knocked down, who did that one?' -- Jonathan Meades
Redemption is as comprehensive as Creation and Fall. God does not save our souls while leaving our minds to function on their own. He redeems the whole person. Conversion is meant to give new direction to our thoughts, emotions, wills and habits. -- Nancy Pearcey
Conversion is essential, but it is a beginning, not an end. The believer in Jesus Christ is not simply rescued from the penalty of his sin; he is redeemed to love God and his neighbor so that others might come to know him. -- Max Anders
I think we must fully face the fact that when Christianity does not make a man very much better, it makes him very much worse... Conversion may make of one who was, if no better, no worse than an animal, something like a devil. -- C. S. Lewis
Conversion is not a repairing of the old building, but it takes all down and erects a new structure. It is not the sewing on a patch of holiness; but, with the true convert, holiness is woven into all his powers, principles and practice. -- Joseph Alleine
Conversion must mean more than just being a 'card-carrying' member of the church with a tithing receipt, a membership card, a temple recommend, etc. It means to overcome the tendencies to criticize and to strive continually to improve inward weaknesses and not merely the outward appearances. -- Harold B. Lee
I find it extraordinary that anyone would have an intellectual conversion to Roman Catholicism. -- Peter Singer
I never outgrew my conversion to atheism at 13, but at various times was a serious cultural Jew. -- Steven Pinker
God is not glorified in any transaction upon earth so much as in the conversion of a sinner. -- Archibald Alexander
Students undergo a conversion in the third year of medical school - not pre-clinical to clinical, but pre-cynical to cynical. -- Abraham Verghese
For individuals to become fully active in the Church, they generally must experience a spiritual conversion and a social integration. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
Knowing that the gospel is true is the essence of a testimony. Consistently being true to the gospel is the essence of conversion. -- David A. Bednar
When my father died, I had a real experience with Christ, a real conversion with Christ and I had it in a Oneness church. -- T. D. Jakes
Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion - it is a daily process whereby you grow to be more and more like Christ. -- Billy Graham
Good website practice and optimizing for conversion usually makes for good search engine optimization. These work together to ensure you drive quality traffic and can persuade that traffic to help you meet your business goals. -- Marc Ostrofsky
When we tell the story of our own conversion, I would have it done with great sorrow, remembering what we used to be, and with great joy and gratitude, remembering how little we deserve these things. -- Charles Spurgeon
I'm fishing for men with a certain kind of bait, and the bait that I am offering is not a candy; it's a very specific thing that I'm offering, which is a deep gospel and a deep conversion. -- Larry Norman
To pass from estrangement from God to be a son of God is the basic fact of conversion. That altered relationship with God gives you an altered relationship with yourself, with your brother man, with nature, with the universe. -- E. Stanley Jones
In conversion you are not attached primarily to an order, nor to an institution, nor a movement, nor a set of beliefs, nor a code of action - you are attached primarily to a Person, and secondarily to these other things. -- E. Stanley Jones
A revival does two things. First, it returns the Church from her backsliding and second, it causes the conversion of men and women; and it always includes the conviction of sin on the part of the Church. What a spell the devil seems to cast over the Church today! -- Billy Sunday
I said the rosary, and I said the Our Father, as they call it in the Catholic Church. One of the things I learned in the conversion process was to say the rosary, and I had a set of rosary beads. So I said 'Hail Mary, full of grace.' -- Wesley Clark
I mean, I went to a church school when I was younger and imbibed a certain amount of religion then but it was really in university that I got interested in religion and politics at the same time. I don't think as if it were one moment of conversion but my spiritual journey really began then. -- Tony Blair
Global warming is real. It is happening today. It is being charted by our satellites. It is being charted by our scientists. It is being charted by those of us in this body, and I think the real key is if we are ready to admit that fact and take the action to make the necessary conversion. -- Dianne Feinstein
Testimony is the beginning of and a prerequisite to continuing conversion. Testimony is a point of departure; it is not an ultimate destination. Strong testimony is the foundation upon which conversion is established. Testimony alone is not and will not be enough to protect us in the latter-day storm of darkness and evil in which we are living. -- David A. Bednar
The true Christian is called to be a soldier and must behave as such from the day of his conversion to the day of his death. He is not meant to live a life of religious ease, indolence and security. He must never imagine for a moment that he can sleep and doze along the way to heaven, like one traveling in an easy carriage. -- J. C. Ryle
A conversion is a lonely experience. -- Dorothy Day
Spirituality without conversion is just plain dry. -- Phil Mitchell
Religious advertising is undergoing a dramatic conversion -- Lisa Miller
The surest mark of true conversion is humility. -- J. C. Ryle
You cannot convert people beyond your own conversion. -- James E. Faust
I believe in conversion of mankind, not its destruction. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Sudden conversion ... is particularly attractive to the half-baked mind. -- E. M. Forster
Final perseverance is the necessary evidence of genuine conversion. -- Charles Spurgeon
Customer conversion is dependent on the right customer conversation. -- Rasheed Ogunlaru
Customer conversion is dependent on the right customer conversation -- Rasheed Ogunlaru
Regeneration is a spiritual change; conversion is a spiritual motion. -- Stephen Charnock
Every story of conversion is the story of a blessed defeat. -- C. S. Lewis
The Government will not abandon the free conversion of the rouble -- Dmitry Medvedev
We are all sinners. We are called to a conversion of heart -- Pope Francis
Desires going before conversion are not such as can calm a storming conscience. -- Samuel Rutherford
Recently, I've been loving Monster Hunter! A film conversion is currently in planning. -- Paul W. S. Anderson
John Connally's conversion to the GOP raised the intellectual level of both parties. -- Frank Mankiewicz
The conversion of a savage to Christianity is the conversion of Christianity to savagery. -- George Bernard Shaw
That conversion which is all joy and lacks sorrow for sin, is very questionable. -- Charles Spurgeon
Suffering is a call to conversion: it reminds us of our frailty and vulnerability. -- Pope Francis
Our conversation rate has to go up before our conversion rate can go up. -- Reggie McNeal
Because the truth of God is love, conversion to God is conversion to love. -- Pope Benedict XVI
A great novel is a kind of conversion experience. We come away from it changed. -- Katherine Paterson
There are three objectives for content marketing: reach engagement conversion. Define key metrics for each. -- Michael Brenner
I'm certainly not a fan of conversion when you could shoot the movie in 3-D. -- James Cameron
Where no visible fruit can be found, there you may be sure is no conversion. -- J. C. Ryle
Economic and financial conversion is actually attainable, thanks to this principle of truth and honesty. -- Sunday Adelaja
To change one's religion under the threat of force is no conversion but rather cowardice. -- Mahatma Gandhi
True conversion means turning not only from sin but also from depending on self-made righteousness. -- George Whitefield
The only conversion involved in Vipassana is from misery to happiness, from bondage to liberation. -- S. N. Goenka
The most zealous converters are always the most rancorous when they fail of producing conversion. -- Charles Caleb Colton
There is a vast difference between intellectual belief and the total conversion that saves the soul. -- Billy Graham
Surely, conversion is a matter between man and his Maker who alone knows His creatures' hearts. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Why are black folks singing Amazing Grace which is a song about a white slaver's conversion? -- Dick Gregory
No one had to worry about Peter after his conversion. Your investigators can be that converted. -- Richard G. Scott
Entrance into Heaven is not at the hour of death, but at the moment of conversion. -- Benjamin Whichcote
The condition of photographing is maybe the condition of being on the brink of conversion to anything. -- Diane Arbus
Since satyagraha is a method of conversion and conviction, it seeks never to use the slightest coercion. -- Mahatma Gandhi
It is evident that our conversion is sound when we loathe and hate sin from the heart. -- Richard Sibbes
Always remember that there is no conversion to God if there is no conversion to the oppressed. -- Ignacio Ellacuria
The gospel of Christ has never needed the gimmicks of man to effect conversion in the soul -- Mark Dever
The evidence of conversion is not a decision card filled out, it's a life being lived out. -- Paul Washer
Italian companies need to re-convert themselves, and such a re-conversion must be toward a better, higher standard. -- Brunello Cucinelli
The best hiding place was love. Thus the conversion from pristine sadism to fabricated hatred, to fraudulent love. -- Toni Morrison
Regeneration is God's disposing the heart to Himself; conversion is the actual turning of the heart to God. -- Richard Cecil
And what he ought to see, hear and understand is truth-eternal truth-and then practice it. That is conversion -- Harold B. Lee
Gaining insight into one's underlying motives, it seems, is more like a belief conversion than a self-discovery process -- Albert Bandura
If conversion makes no improvements in a man's outward actions then I think his 'conversion' was largely imaginary. -- C. S. Lewis
We should not think of conversion as the acceptance of a particular creed, but as a change of heart. -- Helen Keller
I do not believe one can experience conversion or the fullness of the Christian life apart from the church. -- Charles Colson
The Christian is called upon to be the partner of God in the work of the conversion of men. -- William Barclay
There are three conversions necessary (for the Christian life): the conversion of the heart, the mind, and the purse. -- Martin Luther
The intensity of our desire to share the gospel is a great indicator of the extent of our personal conversion. -- Dallin H. Oaks
Oh, be assured fellow teachers, that there is no time in life so favorable to sound conversion as early childhood. -- Theodore L. Cuyler
The great #"? conversion called for by Jesus is to move from belonging to the world to belonging to God. -- Henri Nouwen
You can increase conversion rates and return on investment (ROI) by several times by making PPC landing pages extremely relevant. -- Brian Halligan
Our conversion comes step by step, line upon line. We first build a foundation of faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. -- Neil L. Andersen
To see sin without grace is despair. To see grace without sin is arrogance. To see them in tandem is conversion. -- Max Lucado
To ordinary folks, conversion is not always automatic. It's something that may or may not require explicit assistance. See Billy Graham. -- Larry Wall
Falling in love is like religious conversion. It goes on for a long time below the threshold before it reaches consciousness. -- Helen McCloy
Reforming the social structures which perpetuate poverty and the exclusion of the poor first requires a conversion of mind and heart. -- Pope Francis
My method is conversion, not coercion, it is self-suffering, not the suffering of the tyrant. I know that method to be infallible. -- Mahatma Gandhi
People go through three conversions: The conversion of their head, their heart, and their pocketbook. Unfortunately, not all at the same time. -- Martin Luther
Pride, anger, gluttony, and idleness are sometimes conquered, but the conversion of a malicious and envious mind is a kind of miracle. -- Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont
The single greatest invention man ever conceived in the dollar bill, because I don't want to know the conversion rate for coconuts. -- John Smith
My own veneration for other faiths is the same as that for my own faith; therefore no thought of conversion is possible -- Mahatma Gandhi
In these simple words, Lord, is it I? lies the beginning of wisdom and the pathway to personal conversion and lasting change. -- Dieter F. Uchtdorf

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