If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.
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Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.
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Acts 6:5:
This proposal pleased the whole group. They chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit; also Philip, Procorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolas from Antioch, a convert to Judaism.
(NIV)
And the suggestion pleased the whole assembly, and they selected Stephen, a man full of faith (a strong and welcome belief that Jesus is the Messiah) and full of and controlled by the Holy Spirit, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolaus, a proselyte (convert) from Antioch.
(AMP)
And the saying pleased the whole multitude: and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Ghost, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolas a proselyte of Antioch:
(KJV)
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Benedick: What, my dear Lady Disdain! Are you yet living? Beatrice: Is it possible that disdain should die while she hath such meet food to feed it as Signior Benedick? Courtesy itself must convert to disdain if you come in her presence. Benedick: Then is courtsey a turncoat. But it is certain that I am loved of all ladies, only you excepted; and I would I could find in my heart that I had not a hard heart for, truly, I love none. Beatrice: A dear happiness to women! They would else have been bothered with a pernicious suitor...
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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.
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I'm slowly becoming a convert to the principle that you can't motivate people to do things, you can only demotivate them. The primary job of the manager is not to empower but to remove obstacles.
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I know that two and two make four -- and should be glad to prove it too if I could -- though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.
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First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself--nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
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To convert somebody go and take them by the hand and guide them.
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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyses needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
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Sometimes only a change of viewpoint is needed to convert a tiresome duty into an interesting opportunity.
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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance
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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself -- nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
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The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.
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One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.
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Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense.
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I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.
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The aim of education should be to convert the mind into living fountain, and not a reservoir.
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There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into a power.
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The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
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James 5:19:
My brothers and sisters, if one of you should wander from the truth and someone should bring them back
(NIV)
[My] brethren, if anyone among you strays from the Truth and falls into error and another [person] brings him back [to God](AMP)
Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him;
(KJV)
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