Top 150 Converts Quotes & Sayings

I think we musicians are emissaries. Every time we go before the public, we're there to make converts.

Jesus said, 'Go ... and make disciples,' not converts to your opinions.

To make converts is the natural ambition of everyone.

By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation.

Money degrades all the gods of man and converts them into commodities.

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.

A little philosophy makes a man an Atheist: a great deal converts him to religion

I detest converts almost as much as I do missionaries.

Forgiveness changes the way we remember. It converts the curse into a blessing. Forgiveness indeed heals memories . . .

Religion converts despair, which destroys, into resignation, which submits.

A proud man is satisfied with his own good opinion, and does not seek to make converts to it.

Infinity converts the possible into the inevitable.

With homosexual marriage gaining converts among the young, the party of the Moral Majority declines to stand with Chick-fil-A.

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.

The church changes the world not by making converts but by making disciples.

Fortune converts everything to the advantage of her favorites.

Karl Marx himself preferred a glass of claret to the mug of tea affected by some of his recent converts.

Quorum and group leaders should provide the leading voice and laboring oar in every ward and branch council regarding retention of converts.

We are an asset-light transformative platform that converts sub-standard unbranded hotels/unutilized vacation homes into quality living spaces, with easy to book, hassle-free check-in experience.

Tobacco is the plant that converts thoughts into dreams.

Historically, Jews only accept converts rather than actively seeking them.

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.

An overflow of good converts to bad.

Writing itself, if not misunderstood and abused, becomes a way of empowering the writing self. It converts anger and disappointment into deliberate and durable aggression, the writer's main source of energy. It converts sorrow and self-pity into empathy, the writer's main means of relating to otherness. Similarly, his wounded innocence turns into irony, his silliness into wit, his guilt into judgment, his oddness into originality, his perverseness into his stinger.

I will say broadly that I have more confidence in the spiritual life of the children that I have received into this church than I have in the, spiritual condition of the adults thus received. I will even go further than that, and say that I have usually found a clearer knowledge of the gospel and a warmer love of Christ in the child-converts than in the man-converts. I will even astonish you still more by saying that I have sometimes met with a deeper spiritual experience in children of ten and twelve than I have in certain persons of fifty and sixty.

As success converts treason into legitimacy, so belief converts fiction into fact, and "nothing is but what is not.

Nothing substitutes a large apprenticeship, a heap of experiences which converts into the base of intuition.

Make converts to your own thoughts and opinions.

Time makes more converts than reason.

The principle of compassion is that which converts disillusionment into a participatory companionship. This is the basic love, the charity, that turns a critic into a living human being who has something to give to - as well as to demand of - the world.

Opposition always inflames the enthusiast, never converts him.

You gain converts by winning at something the existing provider didn't think was so important.

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.

The jealous man's disease is of so malignant a nature, that it converts all it takes into its own nourishment.

the ruder lecturers are, and the louder their voices, the more converts they make to their opinions.

A lot of the media says, 'oh, black musician converts X-number of Klansmen.' I never converted one. But over 200 have left that, the white supremacy movements, because I have been the impetus for that.

Censoriously asserting one's moral superiority and treating skeptics as imbeciles and deplorables wins few converts.

Science robs men of wisdom and usually converts them into phantom beings loaded up with facts.

Experience converts us to ourselves when books fail us.

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.

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.

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.

The three great apostles of practical atheism, that make converts without persecuting, and retain them without preaching, are wealth, health and power.

People think that, that conversion to Judaism is just a modern phenomenon. But there was an era in the late Roman Empire Judaism was not a proselytizing religion. It didn't go out looking for converts, but it accepted converts.

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.

It is possible to argue that the really influential book is not that which converts ten millions of casual readers, but rather that which converts the very few who, at any given moment, succeed in seizing power. Marx and Sorel have been influential in the modern world, not so much because they were best-sellers (Sorel in particular was not at all a widely read author), but because among their few readers were two men, called respectively Lenin and Mussolini.

Charming women can true converts make, We love the precepts for the teacher's sake.

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.

I've invented a new type of engine that converts heat directly into electricity with no moving mechanical parts. It's called the Johnson Thermo-Electrochemical Converter, the JTEC.

I was a convert to Catholicism, and converts are much more devout.

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.

In a way that somebody else converts to Judaism or becomes a Hare Krishna, I belong to the church of fried chicken.

No influence so quickly converts a radical into a reactionary as does his election to power.

Every generation of converts threshes over the same old straw.

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 .

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.

Assassination makes only martyrs, not converts.

The new leader is one who commits people to action, who converts followers into leaders, and who may convert leaders into agents of change.

Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.

Force may make hypocrites, but it can never make converts.