Top 142 Converting Quotes & Sayings
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Last updated on April 14, 2025.
The Spirit never makes men the instruments of converting others until they feel that they cannot do it themselves; that their skill in argument, in persuasion, in management, avails nothing.
The trick in nuclear strategy is to maintain stability by balancing potentials and thus to discourage events from converting the hypothetical to the actual.
As a goal scorer, my focus is always on converting my chances and being clinical in the box. That's my No. 1 priority.
MAGIC, n. An art of converting superstition into coin. There are other arts serving the same high purpose, but the discreet lexicographer does not name them.
Coming up with novel ideas and converting them into real products has always been as natural as breathing for me.
Slavery is an institution for converting men into monkeys.
That I want to destroy British imperialism is another matter, but I want to do so by converting those who are associated with it.
Converting liberals is always a great thing. It makes every day worth living.
That's the attraction of the conference circuit: it's a way of converting work into play, combining professionalism with tourism, and all at someone else's expense. Write a paper and see the world! I'm Jane Austen - fly me!
In capitalist society spare time is acquired for one class by converting the whole life-time of the masses into labour-time.
Christianity is a missionary religion, converting, advancing, aggressive, encompassing the world; a non-missionary church is in the bands of death.
What is man? ... What a strange union of matter and mind! A machine for converting material into spiritual force.
No other depositories of power [but the people themselves] have ever yet been found, which did not end in converting to their own profit the earnings of those committed to their charge.
The proselytizing fanatic strengthens his own faith by converting others. The creed whose legitimacy is most easily challenged is likely to develop the strongest proselytizing impulse.
When I moved in, I said, 'I don't care how this makes me look or sound: I am converting one of these bedrooms into a shoe closet.' It's become more of a dressing room, but one wall is shoes in their perfect cubbies.
You can't shoot in sepia, so converting into black and white and then into brown makes everything feel less real.
However, as every parent of a small child knows, converting a large object into small fragments is considerably easier than the reverse process.
After all, the past is our only real guide to the future, and historical analogies are instruments for distilling and organizing the past and converting it to a map by which we can navigate.
We live by faith in a prayer-hearing, soul-converting , soul-sanctifyin g, soul-restoring, soul-comforting God.
We must not be guilty of taking the law into our own hands, and converting it from what it really is to what we think it ought to be.
The singing of our sacred hymns, written by the servants of God, has a powerful effect in converting people to the principles of the Gospel, and in promoting peace and spiritual growth.
Fox News has been a force in converting the party of Lincoln into the party of Trump. The network's allegiance to Trump approaches mindless adoration.
Does that really work, converting someone with a bumper sticker? How weak of a mind do you have to have?
Flowers have the greatest talent in converting an ordinary place into a magical palace!
I expect myself to do my job, and that's taking care of the football and converting third downs.
Anybody who was easily converted was not worth converting.
From the day of Pentecost until the present time, it has been necessary to be of one accord in prayer before the Spirit of God will work with mighty converting power.
Converting your own passions into a job is the fastest method for eliminating any passion you once had.
It is pleasant to see a notorious profligate seized with a concern for religion, and converting his spleen into zeal.
Our life is a hope which is continually converting itself into memory and memory in its turn begets hope.
I've spent, I think, close to the last decade effortlessly and magically converting your tin cans into pure gold.
Men of sense esteem wealth to be the assimilation of nature to themselves, the converting of the sap and juices of the planet to the incarnation and nutriment of their design.
Increasingly, the Chinese will own a lot more of the world because they will be converting their dollar reserves and U.S. government bonds into real assets.
Scratch the surface of most cynics and you find a frustrated idealist — someone who made the mistake of converting his ideals into expectations.
The natural man cannot but resist the Lord's offering to help him; yet that resistance is infallibly overcome in the elect, by converting grace.
In college, I was always disappointed by lectures that covered social problems but failed to identify what I could do to change them. Part of the problem was that many professors simply didn't believe they had a role in converting awareness to action.
Relax, she’s not really converting. (Acheron) Look at her! She’s not exactly baking cookies! (Xypher)
Converting grace puts God on the throne, and the world at His footstool; Christ in the heart, and the world under Hisfeet.
Pickups, S.U.V.'s, vans and the like represent about 80 million vehicles, with mileage of perhaps 13 to 16 miles per gallon. Converting those should be our first priority.
Managers are agents of transformation, converting the workforce in developed countries from one of manual workers to one of highly educated knowledge workers.
Before 2000, we were unable to design a single car; all the cars were designed in Japan, Europe or somewhere else. We were just converting.
I've always said the one advantage an actor has of converting to a director is that he's been in front of the camera. He doesn't have to get in front of the camera again, subliminally or otherwise.
My guess is that liberating the fossil fuel industry to frack anywhere they want will drive down the rate at which we're converting to sun and wind. And it's entirely a rate problem at this point.
A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
I will destroy my enemies by converting them to friends.
A refrigerator runs by converting the dust behind it into a peculiar mutant, reptilian substance.
I believe UNAIDS' provocative leadership has been critical in addressing the AIDS epidemic and converting it from a death sentence to a chronic health condition.
In my head, scenes are shot from certain angles; there are camera pans, all of that kind of stuff. Converting those visuals to comic format was mostly a matter of adapting them to the rhythm of paneling.
If you make converting a lead into a sale harder than a trip to the local DMV, then you lose sales to someone else - with an inferior product - who can make it painless. Don't do that!
There is a lot of growth taking place in capturing aspirational consumers and converting them to luxury as they evolve.
A powerful new idea can kick around unused in a company for years, not because its merits are not recognized, but because nobody has assumed the responsibility for converting it from words into action.
Recognition of the reality of evil necessarily relativizes the good, and the evil likewise, converting both into halves of a paradoxical whole.
The eyes, it is said, are windows to the soul. They are not. They are organs for converting light into electro-magnetic impulses. But this has never stopped us dreaming of them that way.
Taking the best left-handed pitcher in baseball and converting him into a right fielder is one of the dumbest things I ever heard.
The Court today completes the process of converting Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 from a guarantee that race or sex will not be the basis for often will.
Magic: (n) The art of converting superstition into coin.
"thanks" in MaoriGrateful living: an alchemic operation of converting "disgraceful" things into grateful events.
It is one thing to have sin alarmed only by convictions, and another to have it crucified by converting grace. Many, because they have been troubled in conscience for their sins, think well of their case, miserably mistaking conviction for conversion.
Foolish, whenever you take the meanness and formality of that thing you do, instead of converting it into the obedient spiracle ofyour character and aims.
Writing has been an important exercise to clarify what I believe, what I see, what I care about, what my deepest values are. The process of converting a jumble of thoughts into coherent sentences makes you ask tougher questions.
