Minimizing the importance of transformed feelings makes Christian conversion less supernatural and less radical. It is humanly manageable to make decisions of the will for Christ. No supernatural power is required to pray prayers, sign cards, walk aisles, or even stop sleeping around. Those are good. They just don’t prove that anything spiritual has happened. Christian conversion, on the other hand, is a supernatural, radical thing. The heart is changed. And the evidence of it is not just new decisions, but new affections, new feelings.
John PiperTags: emotions salvation affections conversion
I shall never be converted, and I shall remain true to my old religion of the classics until my life's end.
Richard StraussTags: music classics musician conversion classical-music old-religion religion-of-music
When a poor soul is somewhat awakened by the terrors of the Lord, then the poor creature, being born under the covenant of works, flies directly to a covenant of works again. And as Adam and Eve hid themselves… and sewed fig leaves… so the poor sinner, when awakened, flies to his duties and to his performances, to hide himself from God, and goes to patch up a righteousness of his own. Says he, I will be mighty good now–I will reform–I will do all I can; and then certainly Jesus Christ will have mercy on me.
George WhitefieldTags: righteousness gospel preaching sanctification conversion
I would like to start by emphasizing the importance of surfaces. It is at a surface where many of our most interesting and useful phenomena occur. We live for example on the surface of a planet. It is at a surface where the catalysis of chemical reactions occur. It is essentially at a surface of a plant that sunlight is converted to a sugar. In electronics, most if not all active circuit elements involve non-equilibrium phenomena occurring at surfaces. Much of biology is concerned with reactions at a surface.
Walter Houser BrattainTags: science biology importance chemistry nobel-laureate planet phenomena elements sunlight conversion surfaces electronics chemical-reactions circuits
God may not give that instant dollar bill your seeking, but it's in the little change He brings, that will add to a dollar.
Anthony LiccioneTags: money contentment god security novelty changes shift advance conversion adjustment correct build transform bring refinement provide dollar develope instant-riches
If Roman Catholic Christianity has always struggled with the threat of works righteousness, Reformed Protestantism has always struggled with the threat of cheap grace. For many, if not the majority of Protestants, God's love and acceptance do not lead to personal transformation. Evangelical formation often involves seeking to reestablish a pattern of maturing behaviour that should be integral to one's conversion. So both traditions can be challenged on whether there is a genuinely helpful connection between conversion and transformation.
Gordon T. SmithTags: transformation protestantism roman-catholicism conversion evangelicalism cheap-grace works-righteousness
Here commences a new dominion acquired with a title by divine right. Ships are sent with the first opportunity; the natives driven out or destroyed; their princes tortured to discover their gold; a free license given to all acts of inhumanity and lust, the earth reeking with the blood of its inhabitants: and this execrable crew of butchers, employed in so pious an expedition, is a modern colony, sent to convert and civilize an idolatrous and barbarous people!
Jonathan SwiftTags: murder killing genocide religious-violence blood divine-right conversion convert divine-command-theory horrors-of-religion
Instruction would be wasted on me. Just to give me the form and I'll sign on the dotted line.
Evelyn WaughTags: salvation manipulation motives conversion
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