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There's an interesting contrast between born Catholics and converts. Converts are often much more rule-directed. Catholicism isn't something that they breathed in from their childhood, so they think that if you don't toe the line on abstract doctrine you can't be part of the Church. -- Garry Wills
Time makes more converts than reason. -- Thomas Paine
An overflow of good converts to bad. -- William Shakespeare
Opposition always inflames the enthusiast, never converts him. -- Friedrich Schiller
Fortune converts everything to the advantage of her favorites. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities. -- Aldous Huxley
Force may make hypocrites, but it can never make converts. -- William Penn
Historically, Jews only accept converts rather than actively seeking them. -- David Novak
Charming women can true converts make, We love the precepts for the teacher's sake. -- George Farquhar
I think we musicians are emissaries. Every time we go before the public, we're there to make converts. -- Hazel Scott
In this Epistle, the Apostle seeks, with great earnestness, to confirm the Christian converts in the belief of that Gospel, which he had so faithfully preached. -- John Strachan
Both Mum and Dad were converts to Catholicism, and normally if you convert to Catholicism you have thought about it more than someone who just grew up with it, taking it for granted. -- Tony Abbott
Because of my own experience with market fluctuation, I recognize the great risks one takes on investments. This converts the Social Security safety net into a risky proposition many cannot afford to take. -- Grace Napolitano
The genius of the economic machine is in its ability to convert these indulgences into profitability. It converts desire into attention, a grip on our eyeballs and eardrums, which in turn can be marketed to advertisers. -- Todd Gitlin
The name of Jesus, like a secret charm, awakened similar emotions in the hearts of all the converts, and called immediately into action every feeling of moral loveliness, and every desire of dutiful obedience, which constitute Christian purity. -- John Strachan
In the first century A.D., members of the growing Church in Corinth were enthusiastic about the gospel. Almost all were recent converts to the Church. Many were attracted to it through the preaching of the Apostle Paul and others. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
I've been around a long time, and I've been interested in memory for a long time. And one of my earlier interests in molecular biology of memory led me to define the switch that converts short term to long term memory. -- Eric Kandel
My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts; my father was an evangelist, a religious teacher. He and my mother traveled for thirty-five years to different parts of Igboland, spreading the gospel. -- Chinua Achebe
Google is famous for making the tiniest changes to pixel locations based on the data it accrues through its tests. Google will always choose a spartan webpage that converts over a beautiful page that doesn't have the data to back it up. -- Ben Parr
A good memory is surely a compost heap that converts experience to wisdom, creativity, or dottiness; not that these things are of much earthly value, but at least they may keep you amused when the world is keeping you locked away or shutting you out. -- Michael Leunig
The accumulated knowledge of materials, computing, electromagnetism, product design, and all the rest that we've learned over the last several centuries converts a few ounces of raw materials worth mere pennies into a device with more computing power than the entire planet possessed fifty years ago. -- Ramez Naam
I have a profound belief in the power of the Sacraments. I believe that in a Divine way the use of them teaches the teachable their inward meaning and therefore I think we need be in no hurry to attempt to teach new converts all that we think we know about them. -- Roland Allen
Assassination makes only martyrs, not converts. -- Alphonse de Lamartine
Marriage converts a player into a polygamist. -- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Infinity converts the possible into the inevitable. -- Norman Cousins
Make converts to your own thoughts and opinions. -- Oswald Chambers
Religion converts despair, which destroys, into resignation, which submits. -- Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Tobacco is the plant that converts thoughts into dreams. -- Victor Hugo
Experience converts us to ourselves when books fail us. -- Amos Bronson Alcott
To make converts is the natural ambition of everyone. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I detest converts almost as much as I do missionaries. -- H. L. Mencken
Every generation of converts threshes over the same old straw. -- Susan B. Anthony
Money degrades all the gods of man and converts them into commodities. -- Karl Marx
Jesus said, 'Go ... and make disciples,' not converts to your opinions. -- Oswald Chambers
The church changes the world not by making converts but by making disciples. -- John Wesley
By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation. -- Oscar Wilde
A little philosophy makes a man an Atheist: a great deal converts him to religion -- David Hume
You gain converts by winning at something the existing provider didn't think was so important. -- Seth Godin
Nothing substitutes a large apprenticeship, a heap of experiences which converts into the base of intuition. -- Doug Scott
Science robs men of wisdom and usually converts them into phantom beings loaded up with facts. -- Miguel de Unamuno
No influence so quickly converts a radical into a reactionary as does his election to power. -- Elisabeth Marbury
the ruder lecturers are, and the louder their voices, the more converts they make to their opinions. -- Winifred Holtby
I do not fear death, for death transforms visionaries into martyrs; converts noble ideas into powerful movements. -- Dan Brown
The disease of jealously is so malignant that is converts all it takes into its own nourishment. -- Joseph Addison
Forgiveness changes the way we remember. It converts the curse into a blessing. Forgiveness indeed heals memories . . . -- Henri Nouwen
Every lover has love that he converts to future. (Chaque amoureux a l'amour - Qu'il convertit en futur.) -- Charles de Leusse
A proud man is satisfied with his own good opinion, and does not seek to make converts to it. -- William Hazlitt
Love is a weakness which converts even the strongest minds as its slave and makes them sing its tune. -- Auliq Ice
As success converts treason into legitimacy, so belief converts fiction into fact, and "nothing is but what is not. -- Samuel Laman Blanchard
But the color of a Negro's skin makes him easily recognizable, makes him suspect, converts him into a defenseless target -- Richard Wright
Karl Marx himself preferred a glass of claret to the mug of tea affected by some of his recent converts. -- Denis Healey
Quorum and group leaders should provide the leading voice and laboring oar in every ward and branch council regarding retention of converts. -- D. Todd Christofferson
The three great apostles of practical atheism, that make converts without persecuting, and retain them without preaching, are wealth, health and power. -- Charles Caleb Colton
In a way that somebody else converts to Judaism or becomes a Hare Krishna, I belong to the church of fried chicken. -- Padma Lakshmi
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The love of wicked men converts to fear; That fear to hate, and hate turns one or both To worthy danger and deserved death. -- William Shakespeare
Love makes money-grabbing seem contemptible; love makes class prejudice impossible; love makes selfish ambition a thing to be despised; love converts enemies into friends. -- William Jennings Bryan
The new leader is one who commits people to action, who converts followers into leaders, and who may convert leaders into agents of change. -- Warren G. Bennis
As the head of a religious party, I am not in favor of civil marriage or the full recognition of non-Orthodox converts in Israel. -- Ayelet Shaked
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
Growth does not always lead a business to build on success. All too often it converts a highly successful business into a mediocre large business. -- Richard Branson
The pamphlet uses my name, my likeness, my 'shtick' (if you will), and my very act, which is derived from my personality, to attract attention and converts. -- Jackie Mason
A mathematician is a magician who converts adjectives into nouns: continuous into continuum, infinite into infinity, infinitesimal into location, 0D into point, 1D into line, curved into geodesic... -- Bill Gaede
People have a peculiar pleasure in making converts, that is, in causing others to enjoy what they enjoy, thus finding their own likeness represented and reflected back to them. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A good wife is like the ivy which beautifies the building to which it clings, twining its tendrils more lovingly as time converts the ancient edifice into a ruin. -- Samuel Johnson
Capital is an abstract parasite, an insatiable vampire and zombie maker; but the living flesh it converts into dead labor is ours, and the zombies it makes are us. -- Mark Fisher
Thinking is progress. Non-thinking is stagnation of the individual, organisation and the country. Thinking leads to action. Knowledge without action is useless and irrelevant. Knowledge with action, converts adversity into prosperity. -- Abdul Kalam
As the variable capital always stays in the hands of the capitalist in some form or other, it cannot be claimed in any way that it converts itself into revenue for anyone . -- Karl Marx
The world must not only be interpreted, it must be transformed. Man ceases to be the slave and tool of his environment and converts himself into the architect of his own destiny. -- Che Guevara
The reason why so many sects hang around airports looking for converts: they know that people there are at their most vulnerable and perplexed, and ready to accept any kind of guidance. -- Douglas Adams
Can a little speck in the vast universe truly address the Infinite? The answer is that Prayer is precisely what converts that little speck into an entity of inestimable and cosmic significance. -- Jeff Cohen
Both Mum and Dad were converts to Catholicism, and normally if you convert to Catholicism you have thought about it more than someone who just grew up with it, taking it for granted -- Tony Abbott
If you alter or obscure the Biblical portrait of God in order to attract converts, you don't get converts to God, you get converts to an illusion. This is not evangelism, but deception. -- John Piper
I am, in fact, the complete anti-Messiah, and detest converts almost as much as I detest missionaries. My writings, such as they are, have had only one purpose: to attain for H. L. Mencken -- H. L. Mencken
The artist does not illustrate science; ... [but] he frequently responds to the same interests that a scientist does, and expresses by a visual synthesis what the scientist converts into analytical formulae or experimental demonstrations. -- Lewis Mumford
Over-consumption is a cancer eating away at our spiritual vitals. It distances us from the great masses of broken bleeding humanity. It converts us into materialists. We become less able to ask the moral questions. -- Richard J. Foster
Lazy breathing converts the lungs, literally and figuratively speaking, into a cemetery for the deposition of diseased, dying and dead germs as well as supplying an ideal haven for the multiplication of other harmful germs. -- Joseph Pilates
. . . word-sniffing . . . is an addiction, like glue -- or snow -- sniffing in a somewhat less destructive way, physically if not economically. . . . As an addict, I am almost guiltily interested in converts to my own illness . . . -- M. F. K. Fisher

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