Converted Quotes

Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Converted Quotes from famous persons: Origen, Mahershala Ali, Sophie Hannah, Jarome Iginla, Philip Rivers. The wide variety of quotes available makes it possible to find a quote to suit your needs. You’ve likely heard some of the Converted Quotes before, but that’s because they truly are great.

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.

Origen

I converted Dec. 31, 1999. It was a Friday. That was my second time going to the mosque. The woman who is my wife now… was basically raised Muslim – and she was at that point where she was deciding or trying to come to terms with her own relationship with Islam and how to embrace that for herself.

Mahershala Ali

My favourite Friday treat is to drive out of the centre of Cambridge, where we live, and go for a swim at the health club I’ve just joined out in the countryside at Quy. It’s a lovely pool, inside a converted barn. Usually it’s just me and a couple of other swimmers there.

Sophie Hannah

My mom‘s actually a Buddhist. My dad‘s a Christian and he was a Muslim, but he converted to Christianity.

Jarome Iginla

My father converted from being Southern Baptist when I was very young. He was determined that we get to Mass every Sunday, which served as the foundation for everything else. You simply do not miss Mass. Period. When the father of the family says we go, then we go.

Philip Rivers

Every time I was driving on the L.A. freeway in a small car, it was very unnerving for me. One time I rented an SUV, and it just changed my whole perspective of driving, and I was converted to SUVs from that day on.

Lauren Lee Smith

But how odd that in this heathen nation of empty pews, where churches‘ bare, ruined choirs are converted into luxury loft living, a Labour government – yes, a Labour government – is deliberately creating a huge expansion of faith schools.

Polly Toynbee

‘Phantom of the Opera‘ started in my little 100-seater converted church in Britain with a stage where we did what we did. But it was the score itself was what made it.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

My study is a converted garage which is largely lined with bookshelves and cardboard boxes filled with manuscripts of my film scripts, plays and books.

William Nicholson

It’s not like I’m going to go out and change the world and convert everyone into MMA fans. There’s going to be fans out there who are fans of combat sports and fans of contact sports but not everybody‘s going to be converted.

Dana White

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

Georges Rouault

St. Peter announced the glad tidings of the Gospel to the people on the day of Pentecost, and converted, by the first Christian sermon, ever preached, three thousand – which formed the primitive Church.

John Strachan

I was part of a writers‘ collective with 21 writers and filmmakers called the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto. We had our own office space in this old converted dog and cat hospital, and we had a basketball hoop outside. I’d bring my dog to work every day and write.

Noah Hawley

Sammy Sosa grew up without a father in the back of a converted public hospital in San Pedro de Macoris, a dusty seaside town in the Dominican Republic. His father, Juan Montero, died when Sosa was 5.

Bill Dedman

The restructuring theme can be of various kinds. Some amount of debt gets serviced out of cash flows, some gets back-ended and resolved with sale of non-core assets of the company, and some debt gets converted into equity which might today look like a haircut.

Chanda Kochhar

In 1938, I was given a one-year teaching appointment, which was sensational for British universities. This was converted into the usual four-year contract for an Assistant Lecturer in 1939.

Arthur Lewis

It seemed that rebellion must have an unassailable base, something guarded not merely from attack, but from the fear of it: such a base as we had in the Red Sea Parts, the desert, or in the minds of the men we converted to our creed.

T. E. Lawrence

When I was nine years old, my family lost our home, and the six of us moved into my grandparents‘ converted garage.

Becky G

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.

Daryl Davis

Twitter is an amazing thing; it brings footballers closer to the fans because so many of them are on there. I was cynical about it to begin with, but I have been converted.

Gary Lineker

With Germany conquered, the Kremlin checkmated, Japan converted, it became easier – safer – to peek around looking for someone to fear… and maybe do something about. Ideally, somebody far away, from a country about which almost nothing was known.

David Douglas Duncan

To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say ‘my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn’t matter.’

V. S. Naipaul

Federal lawmakers need to change the rules so that vehicles converted to use new fuels can be put on the road; the only restriction should be that they pass the same standard state tests that all other cars do.

Robert Zubrin

Building a consistent experience and firm identity was instrumental in our ability to swiftly build our online presence, open four stores as well as a mobile store in a converted yellow school bus, and launch six shops-in-shops.

Neil Blumenthal

The World Bank and others have been converted to conditional cash transfers (CCT). These provide poor people with cash on condition they send their children to school and for medical treatment.

Guy Standing

I was sixteen when I converted to Islam. Beyond the fraternal aspect, my conversion did not change my life. I was already living by the same principles – being righteous, having values.

Nicolas Anelka

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

C. L. R. James

I’d come to the country to do my Thoreau bit, so I needed an office that looked out onto the woods for inspiration. I converted one of the bedrooms into my workspace and through its windows watched the wildlife appear each morning with the sunrise. Many were the days I would sit in wonder, coffee in hand, for hours.

David Mixner

I have always marveled that so many religions exact such revenge against dissenters. It only weakens the appeal of their faith and contradicts any claims they might have made that ‘all religions are basically the same.’ If all religions were indeed the same, why not let someone be ‘converted’ to another religion?

Ravi Zacharias

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

Anita Diament

I have been doing merch’ since I was 15 and in bands when I was a teenager – silk-screening shirts, making the emulsion in my mom’s closet I converted into a dark room, through college. That’s essentially how us bands survived was selling homemade t-shirts.

Steve Aoki

My photos would not be as high quality without my dad. He’s a contractor, and together we converted an area in our basement into a makeup studio with a desk, a mirror lined with dimmable lights, and storage areas.

James Charles

I’m going to start these art museums that are basically converted homes, and I have one for modern art, and I have one for 19th century European art, and one for French impressionism. I’ve got Japanese.

Larry Ellison

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

Richard G. Scott

The injuries and subsequent incidents inspired me to do something. I converted my weakness into my strength and made it my weapon.

Arunima Sinha

I actually started out as a writer and then converted to illustration because I realised that there was a dearth of good illustrators in genre fiction, at least in Australia at that time.

Shaun Tan

The higher truths are, the more cautious one must be with them; otherwise, they are converted into common things, and common things are not believed.

Nikolai Gogol

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

John Nelson Darby

Whatever else it was, Adolf Hitler’s short-lived regime was also a colossal industrial process by which the wealth and productive power of much of Europe was wrenched from its normal purposes and converted into a machine for killing.

James Buchan

It’s a story of little girls who are pressed into working in sweat shops in games, who spend all day doing repetitive grinding tasks like making shirts, which are then converted into gold and sold on eBay.

Cory Doctorow

As a precocious teen I dreamed of being Graham Greene. Well, as it turned out, I never wrote a great novel, sadly, and I never converted to Catholicism, happily, but I did do one thing he did. That is, in middle age I moved to a seaside town and got into a right barney with the local powers-that-be.

Julie Burchill

Possibly the only genre that efficiently converted from TV to YouTube / Vine is sketch comedy, which has always had more to do with the skills of its creators than its budgets.

Hank Green

I was born and brought up in the countryside. I used to live in a sort of converted stables on the grounds of a castle, and I spent a lot of my childhood running around with a pretend sword pretending to be Robert the Bruce.

Sam Heughan

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.

Fredrik Bajer

Back in the day, I was always broke and was living in a converted garage at the age of 40, and then I decided I was unavailable to live my life with that reality, so I decided to change it.

Jen Sincero

Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence, or learning.

Frederick William Faber

Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.

Thomas Carlyle

Every time a bit of information is erased, we know it doesn’t disappear. It goes out into the environment. It may be horribly scrambled and confused, but it never really gets lost. It’s just converted into a different form.

Leonard Susskind

To the European immigrant – that is, to the aliens who have been converted into Americans by the advantages of American life – the Promise of America has consisted largely in the opportunity which it offered of economic independence and prosperity.

Herbert Croly

I converted from softball. We’ve got volleyball, we’ve got track and field. Athletes come from anywhere and then convert into bobsled.

Elana Meyers

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

Gregory Harrison

There really are three types of ‘religious‘ movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted.

Vera Farmiga

Our favorite: a former garbage dump converted into a riverside park. I first ran there more than 30 years ago when a marathon passed through this park that later became home to Pre’s Trail.

Joe Henderson

I converted a problem into an opportunity.

Arunachalam Muruganantham

Food production has affected the environment more than any other activity humans have engaged in. Humanity devotes more land to food production than anything else – roughly a third of the surface area of the earth, much of which was once forest but has been converted by humans into farms or grazing lands.

Ramez Naam

There were four major 20th-century science fiction writers: Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein and Ray Bradbury. Of those four, the first three were all published principally in science-fiction magazines. They were preaching to the converted.

Robert J. Sawyer

In 1940, President Roosevelt called on American industry to become the ‘great arsenal of democracy.’ Automotive manufacturers in Michigan responded and converted their assembly lines from cars to tanks and helped America win World War II.

Sander Levin

Sometimes I worry that science communication is just preaching to the choir, speaking to the converted. Social media gives us an amazing opportunity to reach new people.

Elise Andrew

Projects can take years to exhibit proof-of-concept and a few more years to be converted into commercial realities.

Dilip Shanghvi

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.

Jupiter Hammon

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