Conversion
Conversion is not putting a man in an armchair and taking him easily to heaven. It is the beginning of a mighty conflict, in which it costs much to win the victory.
Author: J. C. RyleTopics: Conflicts, Conversion, Deception, Famous, Heaven, Victory
The true Christian is called to be a soldier and must behave as such from the day of his conversion to the day of his death. He is not meant to live a life of religious ease, indolence and security. He must never imagine for a moment that he can sleep and doze along the way to heaven, like one traveling in an easy carriage.
Author: J. C. Ryle
Topics: Christians, Conversion, Death, Ease, Famous, Heaven, Indolence, Religious, Security, Soldiers, True
To be born again is, as it were, to enter upon a new existence, to have a new mind, a new heart, new views, new principles, new tastes, new affections, new likings, new dislikings, new fears, new joys, new sorrows, new love to things once hated, new hatred to things once loved, new thoughts of God, and ourselves, and the world, and the life to come, and salvation.
Author: J. C. RyleTopics: Conversion, Famous, Life, New, Rebirth, Reborn, Salvation, Thoughts
No one is qualified to converse in public except those contented to do without such conversation.
Author: Thomas a KempisTopics: Contend, Conversion, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Positive, Qualified
We are not converted only once in our lives but many times and this endless series of conversions and inner revolutions leads to our transformation.
Author: Thomas MertonTopics: Conversion, Converted, Endless, Famous, Leads, Meaningful, Revolution, Series, Times, Transformation
I used to say to my classes that the ways to get insight are: to study infants; to study animals; to study primitive people; to be psychoanalyzed; to have a religious conversion and get over it; to have a psychotic episode and get over it; or to have a love affair with an old Russian. And I stopped saying that when a little dancer in the front row put up her hand and said, ‘Does he have to be old?
Author: Margaret MeadTopics: Affairs, Classes, Conversion, Famous, Little Dancer, Love, Meaningful, Old Russian, People, Primitive, Psychoanalyzed, Psychotic, Religious, Study, Study Animals, Study Infants