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“The Lord will bless us with more baptisms if you make sure the ones you have are going to keep their commitments. The Lord will not prepare more people for baptism if we are not converting the ones we have.”

People Ifs Lord Commitment Bless Baptism Converting Baptized Baptized In

Author:Richard G. Scott

“We shall divert through our own Country a branch of commerce which the European States have thought worthy of the most important struggles and sacrifices, and in the event of peace on terms which have been contemplated by some powers we shall form to the American union a barrier against the dangerous extension of the British Province of Canada and add to the Empire of liberty an extensive and fertile Country thereby converting dangerous Enemies into valuable friends.”

“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.”

People Ends Found Profit Committed Earning Converting

Book:Jefferson, magnificent populist

Source: Jefferson, magnificent populist

“We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war.”

Should War Country Cities Leader Christianity Officers Carpet Civilians Taliban Converting

Book:If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans

Source: If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans

“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.”

Thinking Wells Has Beens Sin Cases Grace One Thing Conscience Conviction Conversion Converting

Book:An Alarm to Unconverted Sinners

Source: An Alarm to Unconverted Sinners

“The Council on Foreign Relations is "the establishment." Not only does it have influence and power in key decision-making positions at the highest levels of government to apply pressure from above, but it also announces and uses individuals and groups to bring pressure from below, to justify the high level decisions for converting the U.S. from a sovereign Constitutional Republic into a servile member state of a one-world dictatorship.”

“There are many members of parliament present here who know as well as I do that, if a man has not already been converted, it will require a great deal more than a letter of appeal to achieve conversion.”

Ifs Knows Men Wells Deals Achieve Members Letters Conversion Appeals Parliament Converting Members Of Parliament

Author:Fredrik Bajer

“Our life is a hope which is continually converting itself into memory and memory in its turn begets hope.”

Life Is Turns Memories Our Lives Begets Converting

Book:Tragic Sense of Life

Source: Tragic Sense of Life

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

May Force Hypocrite Converting

Author:William Penn

“When wireless is fully applied the earth will be converted into a huge brain, capable of response in every one of its parts.”

Earth Brain Huge Future Capable Response Engineering Inventor Wireless Converting

Author:Nikola Tesla

“Scratch the surface of most cynics and you find a frustrated idealist — someone who made the mistake of converting his ideals into expectations.”

Made Mistake Expectations Ideals Surface Cynicism Frustrated Introvert Scratches Idealist Converting Learning Organization

Author:Peter Senge

“Converting the war into an antislavery crusade was a brilliant move on Lincoln's part, and it resulted in a surge of voluntary recruits into the Union army. But this did not last. Northerners may have disapproved of slavery in the South but, once the bloodletting began in earnest, their willingness to die for that conviction began to wane. [...] Lincoln faced the embarrassing reality that he soon would have no army to carry on the crusade.”

May War Reality Lasts Moving Dies Army Slavery Unions South Conviction Brilliant Civil War Willingness Embarrassing Earnest Crusades Converting Recruit Northerners Bloodletting

Author:G. Edward Griffin

“But the Wisdom of God, which is His only-begotten Son, being in all respects incapable of change or alteration, and every good quality in Him being essential, and such as cannot be changed and converted, His glory is therefore declared to be pure and sincere.”

Wisdom Quality Changed Son Pure Essentials Glory Very Good Sincere Incapable Converting Good Quality Alterations

Book:The Sacred Writings of Origen (Annotated Edition)

Source: The Sacred Writings of Origen (Annotated Edition)

“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.”

Real Past Instruments Historical Guides Maps Analogies Navigate Converting

Author:Michael Mandelbaum

“Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other.”

Humans Human Beings Break Dangerous Prison Population Jail Obedient Keepers Zoos Imprisonment Converting Dehumanization Prison Population

Author:Angela Davis

“Taking the best left-handed pitcher in baseball and converting him into a right fielder is one of the dumbest things I ever heard.”

Left Heard Baseball Pitcher Converting Left Handed

Author:Tris Speaker

“The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.”

Doe Truth Enlightening Irritated Converting

Author:Pasquier Quesnel

“I am a living illustration of Bosnian mixing and converting. My grandparents lived in eastern Herzegovina. Very poor. The Turks came and brought Islam. There were three brothers in the family. One was Orthodox Christian. The other two took Islam to survive.”

Two Christian Three Poor Brother Islam Orthodox Grandparent Eastern Orthodox Christian Mixing Illustration Converting Three Brothers Bosnians

Author:Emir Kusturica

“Windmills installed around the world converting their direct current into alternating current and feeding the electric energy into the world network can harvest the planet Earth's prime daily energy income source-the wind--and adequately supply all the world's energy needs”

World Needs Earth Energy Planets Wind Source Direct Currents Income Around The World Prime Electric Harvest Feeding Planet Earth Converting Windmills

Author:R. Buckminster Fuller

“All the world has been converted and Washington is the modem Mecca.”

World Has Beens Converting Mecca

Author:C. L. R. James

“Christ preferred the poor; ever since I have been converted so have I.”

Has Beens Christ Poor Converting

Author:John Nelson Darby

“Fortunately, the time has long passed when people liked to regard the United States as some kind of melting pot, taking men and women from every part of the world and converting them into standardized, homogenized Americans. We are, I think, much more mature and wise today. Just as we welcome a world of diversity, so we glory in an America of diversity -- an America all the richer for the many different and distinctive strands of which it is woven.”

“Rather than converting people from one organised religion to another organised religion, we should try to convert people from misery to happiness, from bondage to liberation and from cruelty to compassion.”

People Should Trying Compassion Misery Cruelty Liberation Bondage Converting Organised Vipassana Organised Religion

Author:S. N. Goenka

“Even if you are on the brink of damnation, even if you have one foot in hell, even if you have sold your soul to the devil as sorcerers do who practice black magic, and even if you are a heretic as obstinate as a devil, sooner or later you will be converted and will amend your life and will save your soul, if-and mark well what I say-if you say the Holy Rosary devoutly every day until death for the purpose of knowing the truth and obtaining contrition and pardon for your sins.”

“My only objective is to paint a Christ so moving that those who see him will be converted.”

Moving Christ Paint Objectives Objectivity Converting

Author:Georges Rouault

“My husband, Jim, converted to Judaism just before our wedding.”

Husband My Husband Wedding Judaism Converting Wedding Day Our Wedding

Author:Anita Diament

“Try to look at your weakness and convert it into your strength. That's success.”

Inspirational Trying Looks Success Strength Succeed Weakness Weak Inner Strength Key To Success Road To Success Recipe For Success Converting

Author:Zig Ziglar

“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.”

Doe Art Purpose Names Magic Serving Superstitions Coins Converting Discreet Lexicographer

Book:The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“It is now highly feasible to take care of everybody on Earth at a 'higher standard of living than any have ever known.' It no longer has to be you or me. Selfishness is unnecessary and henceforth unrationalizable as mandated by survival.”

War Care Earth Known Technology Higher Standards Take Care Selfishness Be You Unnecessary Obsolete Standards Of Living Converting Higher Standards Weaponry Unnecessary War High Technology

Author:R. Buckminster Fuller

“However, as every parent of a small child knows, converting a large object into small fragments is considerably easier than the reverse process.”

Knows Children Process Parent Objects Easier Reverse Fragments Small Child Converting

Author:Andrew S. Tanenbaum

“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.”

Men Helping Natural Lord Grace Overcoming Resistance Offering Converting

Book:Human Nature in Its Four-fold State of Primitive Integrity: Subsisting in the Parents of Mankind in Paradise : Entire Depravation, in the Irregenerate; Begun Recovery in the Regenerate; Consummate Happiness Or Misery, in All Mankind in the Future State : in Several Practical Discourses

Source: Human Nature in Its Four-fold State of Primitive Integrity: Subsisting in the Parents of Mankind in Paradise : Entire Depravation, in the Irregenerate; Begun Recovery in the Regenerate; Consummate Happiness Or Misery, in All Mankind in the Future State : in Several Practical Discourses

“By deafening ourselves to the emotional consequences of violence we have become confused by its relationship to sex. We have come to believe that violence equals aggression, and we have come to base our model of sexuality on our model of violence... converting an act of aggression into an act of consensual sexuality.”

Believe Sex Violence Emotional Models Consequence Sexuality Confused Aggression Converting Consequences Of Violence

Author:Derrick Jensen

“I will destroy my enemies by converting them to friends.”

Enemy Converting

Author:Maimonides

“Magic: (n) The art of converting superstition into coin.”

Art Magic Superstitions Coins Converting

Author:Ambrose Bierce

“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.”

Today Sex Process Race Rights Bases Court Civil Rights Titles Guarantees Hippie Guarantees That Converting Civil Rights Act Civil Rights Act Of 1964

Author:Antonin Scalia

“Once the image was in the digital environment, one of the problems was, we had no means to reproduce the color spectrum, grey scale, and contrast that film produces, without converting the digital file to film, evaluating it, then going back and changing the digital image.”

Mean Problem Film Environment Produce Color Scales Digital Contrast Grey Files Spectrum Converting

Author:John Dykstra

“So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status; it longs to create a world of beauty to triumph over chaos and convert it to order.”

World Order Beauty Creative Absolutes Strive Chaos Triumph Strife Converting

Book:Sergii Bulgakov: towards a Russian political theology

Source: Sergii Bulgakov: towards a Russian political theology

“To change, to convert? Why bother?”

Bother Converting Why Bother

Author:Lionel Blue

“The freedom to convert is fundamental to freedom of religion.”

Fundamentals Converting Freedom Of Religion

Author:Bob Inglis

“I'm a very recent convert to the gay scene. I went to a party a couple of years ago and met a very nice man who took me under his wing and started taking me out to clubs. It was a revelation.”

Men Years Party Nice Couple Mets Scene Gay Years Ago Wings Clubs Revelations Very Nice Converting Nice Man

Author:Matt Lucas

“This was the period when I used all the influence I had to get the British to abandon their export trade, and as much as possible convert all of their manufacturing facilities to the immediate needs of the war, including civilian, as well as military requirements.”

Needs Wells War Used Influence Military Periods Trade Including British Abandon Requirements Civilians Facility Manufacturing Converting

Author:W. Averell Harriman

“We in Congress need to support the American forces in every conceivable way, giving them the tools to continue to convert, capture or kill terrorists and the time to equip the Iraqi security forces.”

Way Needs Giving Force Support Security Tools Congress Terrorist Capture Converting Security Forces

Author:Bob Inglis

“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.”

Desire Turns Ability Attention Economic Genius Machines Indulgence Converting Advertisers Eyeballs Profitability

Author:Todd Gitlin

“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.”

Social My Own Risk Security Safety Investment Propositions Social Security Converting Safety Net Great Risk Fluctuation

Author:Grace Napolitano

“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.”

Thinking Knows Way Needs Believe Use Belief I Believe Teach Divine Profound Inward Sacraments Converting Teachable

Author:Roland Allen

“No one had to worry about Peter after his conversion. Your investigators can be that converted.”

Worry Conversion Peter Converting Investigators

Author:Richard G. Scott

“I learned to play guitar at a young age and converted poems and stuff that I had written to songs.”

Play Age Young Song Stuff Written Guitar Young Age Converting

Author:Gregory Harrison

“Now the Bible tells us that we are all by nature, sinners, that we are slaves to sin and Satan, and that unless we are converted, or born again, we must be miserable forever.”

Born Sin Forever Slave Miserable Satan Sinner Born Again Converting

Book:America's first Negro poet: the complete works of Jupiter Hammon of Long Island

Source: America's first Negro poet: the complete works of Jupiter Hammon of Long Island

“Some women have said, 'Gee, here I am getting involved with this fat guy, what will people think of me?' But they were converted and sometimes surprised.”

People Thinking Said Sometimes Guy Involved Fats Here I Am Think Of Me Converting

Author:Daniel Pinkwater

“Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.”

Thinking Men Believe Heart Imagination Converting

Book:Pascal's Pensees

Source: Pascal's Pensees