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Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct. -- Thomas Carlyle
Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence, or learning. -- Frederick William Faber
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him. -- John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn
I hope in God, I pray on, and look yet for the answer. They are not converted yet, but they will be. -- George Muller
Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted. -- Blaise Pascal
It is extremely difficult for a Jew to be converted, for how can he bring himself to believe in the divinity of - another Jew? -- Heinrich Heine
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. -- D. H. Lawrence
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. -- Mosab Hassan Yousef
'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. -- Andrew Lloyd Webber
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.' -- V. S. Naipaul
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. -- George Whitefield
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. -- Charles W. Chesnutt
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. -- Sander Levin
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. -- Cory Doctorow
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. -- Leonard Susskind
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. -- Polly Toynbee
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. -- Julius Streicher
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. -- Rima Fakih
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. -- Madonna Ciccone
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. -- Origen
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. -- T. E. Lawrence
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? -- Ravi Zacharias
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. -- Julie Burchill
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. -- A. R. Rahman
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. -- David Mixner
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. -- Shereen El Feki
Dali was Renaissance man converted to psychoanalysis. -- Salvador Dali
My mother converted, my mom converted to Judaism. -- Trevor Noah
I don't care about preaching to the converted. -- Simon Sinek
Anybody who was easily converted was not worth converting. -- Milton Friedman
My mother converted to Catholicism to marry my father. -- Julian Fellowes
The entire Earth will be converted into a huge brain -- Nikola Tesla
My husband, Jim, converted to Judaism just before our wedding. -- Anita Diament
Do what you know and perception is converted into character. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him. -- John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn
Labour has converted to Europe because Europe has converted to socialism. -- Roy Hattersley
I converted a family-owned strip club into an improvisational acting theater. -- Tommy Chong
Your thoughts don't matter if they are not converted into actions. -- Tuskas C
Each generation is converted by the saint who contradicts it most. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
No one ever converted to Christianity because they lost the argument. -- Philip Yancey
A converted man will not wish to go to heaven alone -- J. C. Ryle
I know that a man is converted when he starts to sing -- Alistair Begg
Our tendency is to be converted to church and not to Christ. -- Max Lucado
Youth is a religion from which one always ends up being converted. -- Andre Malraux
All the world has been converted and Washington is the modem Mecca. -- C. L. R. James
As our knowledge is converted to wisdom, the door to opportunity is unlocked. -- Barbara W. Winder
Christ preferred the poor; ever since I have been converted so have I. -- John Nelson Darby
One is not converted to christianity; one must be morbid enough for it. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Money could not be converted into capital if wage labour did not exist. -- David Harvey
Ottawa - a sub-arctic lumber-village converted by royal mandate into a political cockpit. -- Goldwin Smith
The sorrow that lay cold in her mother's heart... converted it into a tomb. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Why then be perverted and follow thy flesh? Be it converted and follow thee. -- Saint Augustine
I enjoy heaven already in my soul. My prayers are all converted into praises. -- Augustus Toplady
I've always thought preaching to the converted is just kind of futile and silly. -- Patterson Hood
We must seek to be firmly rooted and converted to the gospel of Jesus Christ. -- Dallin H. Oaks
My wife converted me to religion. I never believed in hell until I married her. -- Hal Roach
The church is only a secular institution in which the half-educated speak to the half-converted. -- William Ralph Inge
People who think that once they are converted all will be happy, have forgotten Satan. -- David Lloyd-Jones
Slowly but surely, the U.S. military is being converted into a global oil-protection service. -- Michael Klare
No one had to worry about Peter after his conversion. Your investigators can be that converted. -- Richard G. Scott
Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order. -- Hermann Hesse
I've won every debate I've had with an atheist, and never converted even a single one. -- Francis Joseph Sheed
A man to be converted has to give up his will, his ways, and his thoughts. -- Dwight L. Moody
I had my house converted to the Colorado altitude, so I am always above sea level, -- Gilbert Arenas
She simply converted an average face into beautiful face and a beautiful face into an angelic face. -- Amit Kalantri
The world will never be converted to God unitl Christians cry less and laugh and sing more. -- Charles Spurgeon
Even the worst that happens to you can be converted into GOLD if you are clever enough. -- Curtis Jackson
When a pagan race comes in contact with a Christian race, they are converted, absorbed, or exterminated. -- Joseph R. Bartlett
I was once a skeptic but was converted by the two missionaries on either side of my nose. -- Robert Breault
The picture is the imitation and converted reality of the goods, in short, an indirect substitute for reality. -- Herbert Bayer
Movies that tend to be converted or tend to be 3D in a late decision are not effective. -- Joel Silver
My only objective is to paint a Christ so moving that those who see him will be converted. -- Georges Rouault
Nothing in nature is exhausted in its first use...In God, every end is converted into a new means. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
All the Utopias will come to pass only when we grow wings and all people are converted into angels. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Sometimes what works in a book is too "in your face" when converted to the big screen and sound. -- James Dashner
The wicked exist in this world either to be converted or that through them the good may exercise patience. -- Saint Augustine
Most failures could have been converted into successes if someone had held on another minute or made more effort. -- Napoleon Hill
Popular poets are the parish priests of the Muse, retailing her ancient divinations to a long since converted public. -- George Santayana
Energy can't be destroyed, only converted into something different. So when a person dies, where does that energy go? -- Jodi Picoult
I learned to play guitar at a young age and converted poems and stuff that I had written to songs. -- Gregory Harrison
You will win as many souls as God gives you, but no one will be converted by your own power. -- Charles Spurgeon
I believe in preaching to the converted; for I have generally found that the converted do not understand their own religion. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
I shall never be converted, and I shall remain true to my old religion of the classics until my life's end. -- Richard Strauss
At the height of his popularity in 1977, Cat Stevens converted to Islam and dedicated his life to educational and philanthropic causes. -- Shawn Amos
Being converted to Jesus is learning to so adore God that we would gladly renounce everything we have to follow Him. -- J.D. Greear
We have converted our wounds into a type of relationship currency that we use in order to control situations and people. -- Caroline Myss
We are challenged these days, but not changed; convicted, but not converted. We hear, but do not; and thereby we deceive ourselves. -- Vance Havner
Every sex noise can be converted into a note and frozen in a can of soda. Ask me about menstruation music today! -- Jarod Kintz
When I was nine years old, my family lost our home, and the six of us moved into my grandparents' converted garage. -- Becky G
When wireless is fully applied the earth will be converted into a huge brain, capable of response in every one of its parts. -- Nikola Tesla
Jesus suffered deeply because He loves us deeply! He wants us to repent and be converted so that He can fully heal us. -- Russell M. Nelson
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. -- C. S. Lewis
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." -- Vance Havner
People often mistake their imagination for their heart, & so often are convinced they are converted as soon as they start thinking of becoming converted. -- Blaise Pascal
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. -- Dani Shapiro
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. -- Wayne Dyer
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. -- C. S. Lewis
History is replete with instances of men, who, by dying with courage and compassion on their lips converted the hearts of their violent opponents. -- Mahatma Gandhi
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
Persecution, in short, is like the goldsmith's stamp on real silver and gold - it is one of the marks of a converted man. -- J. C. Ryle
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
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. -- Michael Savage
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. -- William Nicholson
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. -- Jim Lee
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. -- Dwight L. Moody
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. -- George Bernard Shaw
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. -- J. C. Ryle
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. -- Joan D. Chittister
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. -- Steve Kornacki
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. -- Graham Kendrick
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. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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. -- Tom Regan
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. -- Tom Lehrer
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. -- Napoleon Hill
To Arab Sunni Islamists, Iranians are gabrs (Zoroastrians) while Shi'ites, including Arab ones, are rafidis (heretics) who must be â??re-convertedâ? or put to death. -- Amir Taheri
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. -- John James Cowperthwaite
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. -- Arthur Lewis
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. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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. -- Daniel Pinkwater
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. -- Robert D. Hales

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