Words matter. These are the best Converts Quotes from famous people such as Garry Wills, George Farquhar, Robert Stigwood, John Strachan, Friedrich Schiller, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
Charming women can true converts make, We love the precepts for the teacher’s sake.
I was a convert to Catholicism, and converts are much more devout.
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.
Opposition always inflames the enthusiast, never converts him.
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.
A convert, if he converts through the Orthodox, he has the Jewish gene. If he doesn’t convert through the Orthodox, he doesn’t have the Jewish gene. As simple as that.
In the first century A.D., members of the growing Church in Corinth were enthusiastic about the gospel. Almost all were recent converts to the Church. Many were attracted to it through the preaching of the Apostle Paul and others.
A good memory is surely a compost heap that converts experience to wisdom, creativity, or dottiness; not that these things are of much earthly value, but at least they may keep you amused when the world is keeping you locked away or shutting you out.
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.
The name of Jesus, like a secret charm, awakened similar emotions in the hearts of all the converts, and called immediately into action every feeling of moral loveliness, and every desire of dutiful obedience, which constitute Christian purity.
Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.
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.
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.
‘Absolute Water’ converts sewage water into water which can be even consumed – if only one can get rid of the taboo of drinking sewage water, which they do in many parts of the world!
I think we musicians are emissaries. Every time we go before the public, we’re there to make converts.
Fortune converts everything to the advantage of her favorites.
