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“The great danger of conversion in all ages has been that when the religion of the high mind is offered to the lower mind, the lower mind, feeling its fascination without understanding it, and being incapable of rising to it, drags it down to its level by degrading it.”

Mind Has Beens Feelings Age Understanding Levels Danger Conversion Rising Drag Incapable Fascination Rebellious Degrading

Book:The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

“The decision to serve a mission will shape the spiritual destiny of the missionary, his or her spouse, and their posterity for generations to come. A desire to serve is a natural outcome of one's conversion, worthiness, and preparation.”

Spiritual Desire Natural Decision Destiny Generations Shapes Missions Conversion Preparation Outcomes Missionary Spouse Posterity Worthiness

Author:Russell M. Nelson

“No doubt a man may be saved, like the penitent thief, without having received the Lord's Supper. It is not a matter of absolute and indispensable necessity, like repentance, faith, and conversion. But it is impossible to say that any professing Christian is in a safe, healthy, or satisfactory condition of soul, who habitually refuses to obey Christ and attend the Lord's Table.”

Source: The Upper Room: Biblical Truths For Modern Times

“Suffering is a call to conversion: it reminds us of our frailty and vulnerability.”

Suffering Conversion Vulnerability Hard Times Encouraging Tough Times Frailty Words Of Encouragement Ordeals

Author:Pope Francis

“To ordinary folks, conversion is not always automatic. It's something that may or may not require explicit assistance. See Billy Graham.”

May Ordinary Folks Conversion Assistance Explicit

Author:Larry Wall

“You have to figure out what conversion means in your case. What does retention mean? What does activation mean? For every business, it's going to be slightly different because of the nature of the product and the kinds of people who use it.”

People Kind Mean Doe Different Use Cases Figures Products Conversion Users Retention Activation

Author:Stewart Butterfield

“When Jesus stepped into the waters of the Jordan and was baptized by John the Baptist, he did so not because he was in need of repentance, or conversion: he did it to be among people who need forgiveness, among us sinners, and to take upon himself the burden of our sins.”

People Needs Jesus Water Sin Burden Conversion Sinner Repentance Jordan Baptists Baptized John The Baptist

Author:Pope Francis

“One thing the young Christian should be taught as quickly as possible after his conversion is that Jesus Christ is all he needs.”

Needs Should Christian Young Jesus Christ One Thing Taught Jesus Christ Conversion Following Jesus

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“Throughout all the pain of enslavement and despotism, of inquisition, forced conversion, and massacre, the Jewish people has carried in its heart the yearning for freedom and has given this craving a folk expression which includes every soul in Israel, every single downtrodden pauperized soul!”

People Heart Soul Pain Given Expression Folks Israel Conversion Yearning Craving Despotism Massacres Enslavement Inquisition Downtrodden

Author:Berl Katznelson

“Entrance into Heaven is not at the hour of death, but at the moment of conversion.”

Moments Heaven Hours Conversion Entrances

Book:The works of ... Benjamin Whichcote

Source: The works of ... Benjamin Whichcote

“I wish you would stop and seriously consider, as a broad and long-term feminist political strategy, the conversion of women to a woman-identified and woman-directed sexuality and eroticism, as a way of breaking the grip of men on women's minds and women's bodies, of removing women from the chronic attachment to the primary situations of sexual and physical violence that is rained upon women by men, and as a way of promoting women's firm and reliable bonding against oppression. . . .”

Source: Willful virgin: essays in feminism, 1976-1992

“John Connally's conversion to the GOP raised the intellectual level of both parties.”

Humor Funny Levels Party Republican Intellectual Humorous Democrat Raised Conversion Gop

Author:Frank Mankiewicz

“The conversion of agnostic High Tories to the Anglican church is always rather suspect. It seems too pat and predictable, too clearly a matter of politics rather than faith.”

Matter Seems Church Conversion Suspects Agnostic Predictable

Author:Terry Eagleton

“In general I like a guy who is athletic, somebody who can teach me something. Whether it's teaching me a new way to cut on a wave or teach me a three-point conversion or teach me how to dribble a soccer ball. There's something really cool about that.”

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Author:Aimee Teegarden

“Conversion is a daily thing.”

Author:Jim Caviezel

“The Lord Jesus will be revealed mightily, and will make bare his holy Arm, as well in the confusion of Antichrist, as in the conversion of the Jews, before the last judgment, and the end of all things.”

Wells Ends Lasts Jesus Lord Arms Holy Judgment All Things Jew Conversion Confusion Antichrist Anti Christ

Book:The Presbyterian's Armoury: and II. The works of Mr. George Gillespie, with memoir of his life and writings

Source: The Presbyterian's Armoury: and II. The works of Mr. George Gillespie, with memoir of his life and writings

“What has become alien to men is the human component of culture, its closest part, which upholds them against the world. They make common cause with the world against themselves, and the most alienated condition of all, the omnipresence of commodities, their own conversion into appendages of machinery, is for them a mirage of closeness.”

Men World Humans Culture Causes Common Conditions Conversion Aliens Closest Commodity Components Machinery Closeness Mirages

Author:Theodor Adorno