Quotes about Conversion

Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.

Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord.

Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian.

Why I Wrote Redeeming Love Many born-again Christians talk about a single conversion experience that changed their lives forever. They can tell you the day and the hour they made their decision to live for the Lord. I can't do that.

I believe we all serve someone in this life. For the first thirty-eight years of mine, I served myself. My conversion was not a highly emotional experience. It was a conscious, thought-out decision that changed my focus, my direction, my heart, my life.

To convert somebody go and take them by the hand and guide them.

St. Paul did not baptize uninstructed converts apart from a system of mutual responsibility which ensured their instruction.

The Spirit did everything on the Day of Pentecost and afterwards. It was the Spirit who gave the boldness, the wisdom, the message, and the converting power.

And this is the way to live as children of God: as many as receive Him, to them gives He the power to become children of God. This holds true, not only of conversion and regeneration, but of every day of my life.

Conversion is not the smooth, easy-going process some men seem to think... It is wounding work, this breaking of the hearts, but without wounding there is no saving... Where there is grafting there will always be a cutting, the graft must be let in with a wound; to stick it onto the outside or to tie it on with a string would be of no use. Heart must be set to heart and back to back or there will be no sap from root to branch. And this, I say, must be done by a wound, by a cut.

My name is now Christian, but my name used to be Graceless.

The whole life of man until he is converted to Christ is a ruinous labyrinth of wanderings.