Inspirational Quotes on Conversion

“Every story of conversion is the story of a blessed defeat.”

“It very often happens that the converts that are born in excitement die when the excitement is over... Some of the most glaring sinners known to me were once members of a church; and were, as I believe, led to make a profession by undue pressure, well meant but ill-judged.”

“Escape means nothing more than the gradual emergence of the higher being from the lower, and nothing less. It means the gradual putting off of all that cannot enter the higher state, or heaven, and simultaneously the putting on of Christ. It involves the slow completing of the soul and the development of the capacity for God.”

“Social responsibility becomes an aspect not of Christian mission only, but also of Christian conversion. It is impossible to be truly converted to God without being thereby converted to our neighbour.”

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

“Force may make hypocrites, but it can never make converts.”

“Un mundo de buenas personas, satisfechas con su propia bondad, sin mirar más allá, dándole la espalda a Dios, estaría tan desesperadamente necesitado de salvación como un mundo miserable… e incluso podría ser aún más difícil de salvar. El mero mejoramiento no es la redención, aunque la redención siempre mejora a la gente, incluso aquí y ahora, y la mejorará al final hasta un grado que aún no podemos imaginar. Dios se hizo hombre para convertir a las criaturas en hijos: no simplemente para producir hombres mejores de la antigua clase, sino para producir una nueva clase de hombre.”

“[The natural life] knows that if the spiritual life gets hold of it, all its self-centredness and self-will are going to be killed and it is ready to fight tooth and nail to avoid that.”

“No man hath a right to claim God as his Father, unless he feeleth in his soul, and believeth, solemnly, through the faith of God's election, that he has been adopted into the one family of which is in heaven and earth, and that he has been regenerated or born again.”

“Contemplate the love of Christ, and you will love. Stand before that mirror, reflect Christ's character, and you will be changed into the same image from tenderness to tenderness. There is no other way. You cannot love to order. You can only look at the lovely object, and fall in love with it, and grow into likeness to it.”

“Though he may not yet fully experience the meaning of the death of the Lord Jesus, God nevertheless has made him alive together with Christ and he has obtained a new life in the resurrection power of the Lord Jesus. This is new birth.”

“There is no ascertaining the quality of a tree but by its fruits. When the wheels of a clock move within, the hand on the dial will move without. When the heart of a man is sound in conversion, then the life will be fair in profession.”

“Dichoso el que te ama a ti, y a su amigo en ti, y a su enemigo en ti; pues el único que no pierde a sus seres queridos es el que los quiere y los tiene en Aquel que no se pierde. ¡Oh Dios de las virtudes, conviértenos a ti, muéstranos tu rostro, y seremos salvos! (Sal 79,4) Porque adondequiera que se vuelva el alma del hombre fuera de ti, queda inmóvil en el dolor, aunque se detenga en cosas bellas fuera de ti y fuera de él mismo, cosas que sin ti nada serían.”

“Nothing but a miracle of grace can lead to the saving of any sinner. Oh, my reader, be not deceived on this vital matter; to mortify the lusts of the flesh, to be crucified unto the world, to overcome the Devil, to die daily unto sin and live unto righteousness, to be meek and lowly in heart, trustful and obedient, pious and patient, faithful and uncompromising, loving and gentle; in a word, to be a Christian, to be Christ-like, is a task far, far beyond the poor resources of fallen human nature.”

“Conversion is a complete surrender to Jesus. It's a willingness to do what he wants you to do.”

“It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.”

“God doesn't seek for golden vessels, and does not ask for silver ones, but He must have clean ones.”

“The recognition of the Ideal is the first step in the direction of Conformity. But let it be clearly observed that it is but a step. There is no vital connection between merely seeing the Ideal and being conformed to it. Thousands admire Christ who never become Christians.”

“You can have all of your doctrines right - yet still not have the presence of God.”

“We should realize that the Bible never tells us to have ourselves crucified; it informs us only that we "were crucified."”