Quotes of Conversion - somelinesforyou

“ I believe that a man is converted when first he hears the low, vast murmur of life, of human life, troubling his hitherto unconscious self. ”

- D. H. Lawrence

“ Since man does not create physical matter, those who handle material objects in the production process are not producers in that sense. Economic benefits result from the transformation of matter in form, location, or availability (intellectually or temporally)… ”

- Thomas Sowell

“ Surely conversion is a matter between man and his Maker who alone knows his creatures' hearts. A conversion without a clean heart is, in my opinion, a denial of God and Religion. Conversion without cleanliness of heart can only be a matter of sorrow, not joy, to a godly person. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ In nature, there is less death and destruction than death and transmutation. ”

- Edwin Way Teale

“ A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations. ”

- Ezra

“ I used to say: "there is a God-shaped hole in me." For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it is the shape which has become more important. ”

- Salman Rushdie

“ Something is happening to Britain and the British. Or has happened. We are said to be passing through a transition, or a turning point, or a transformation; nobody is quite sure which. ”

- Ferdinand Mount

“ Conversion isn't going to happen. I don't think the GPL v3 conversion is going to happen for the kernel, since I personally don't want to convert any of my code. ”

- Linus Torvalds

“ I look OK and it becomes that amazing transformation which it really is for Hermione. ”

- Emma Watson

“ Translation is at best an echo. ”

- George Borrow

“ Religious advertising is undergoing a dramatic conversion. ”

- Lisa Miller

“ Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my intuition had always known. ”

- Madeleine L’Engle

“ God is not glorified in any transaction upon earth so much as in the conversion of a sinner. ”

- Archibald Alexander

“ Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion; it is like a daily process whereby you grow to be more and more like Christ. ”

- Billy Graham

“ A great novel is a kind of conversion experience. We come away from it changed. ”

- Katherine Paterson

“ Engineering is the professional art of applying science to the optimum conversion of natural resources to the benefit of man. ”

- Ralph J. Smith

“ 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. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ Jesus tapped me on the shoulder and said, Bob, why are you resisting me? I said, I'm not resisting you! He said, You gonna follow me? I said, I've never thought about that before! He said, When you're not following me, you're resisting me. ”

- Bob Dylan

“ Nobody was born nonviolent. No one was born charitable. None of us comes to these things by nature but only by conversion. The first duty of the nonviolent community is helping its members work upon themselves and come to conversion. ”

- Lanza del Vasto

“ Translation is the paradigm, the exemplar of all writing. It is translation that demonstrates most vividly the yearning for transformation that underlies every act involving speech, that supremely human gift. ”

- Harry Mathews
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