A Quote by R. A. Torrey

I prayed fifteen years for the conversion of my oldest brother. When he seemed to be getting further and further away from any hope of conversion, I prayed on.

R. A. Torrey

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R. A. Torrey
American - Writer
January 28, 1856 - October 26, 1928

When you go after someone who has a deep ideological belief set that is contradictory with your own, it's conversion. Conversion is hard. Conversion is miraculous. We have entire religions built around the idea of conversion. Politics is not a religion. Politics is about persuasion.

Stacey Abrams

I do make conversion, if conversion means really turning people to God - to have a clean heart and to love God. That's the real conversion.

Mother Teresa

I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.

Frederick Douglass

Carmen prayed hard. She prayed while standing near the priest in hopes it would give her request extra credibility. What she prayed for was nothing. She prayed that God would look on them and see the beauty of their existence and leave them alone.

Ann Patchett

The idea seemed to be that if you prayed extremely hard--especially if a lot of people prayed at once--maybe God would change things. The trouble was, what if your enemy was praying, too? Which prayer would God listen to?

Jeanne DuPrau

There is a class of people who seem to think that if a man should fall overboard into the sea with a Bible in his pocket it would hardly be possible to drown. I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.

Frederick Douglass

Surely conversion is a matter between man and his Maker who alone knows his creatures' hearts. A conversion without a clean heart is, in my opinion, a denial of God and Religion. Conversion without cleanliness of heart can only be a matter of sorrow, not joy, to a godly person.

Mahatma Gandhi

If conversion makes no improvements in a man's outward actions then I think his 'conversion' was largely imaginary.

C. S. Lewis

Social organizations are flagrantly open systems in that the input of energies and the conversion of output into further energetic input consists of transactions between the organization and its environment.

Daniel Katz

Always remember that there is no conversion to God if there is no conversion to the oppressed.

Ignacio Ellacuria

'Pears like I prayed all the time, 'bout my work, everywhere, I prayed an' groaned to the Lord.

Harriet Tubman

Pears like I prayed all the time, 'bout my work, everywhere, I prayed an' groaned to the Lord.

Harriet Tubman

When Job was prospering, he prayed. When he was suffering, he still prayed.

Timothy Keller

I prayed for all his dreams to come true. I prayed that I would always be able to connect with him--even if I was no longer on earth.

Alexandra Adornetto

The Linux kernel is under the GPL version 2. Not anything else. Some individual files are licensable under v3, but not the kernel in general. And quite frankly, I don't see that changing. I think it's insane to require people to make their private signing keys available, for example. I wouldn't do it. So I don't think the GPL v3 conversion is going to happen for the kernel, since I personally don't want to convert any of my code. You think v2 or later is the default. It's not. The _default_ is to not allow conversion. Conversion isn't going to happen.