Definition of Conversion

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Conversion

The act of turning or changing from one state or condition to another, or the state of being changed; transmutation; change.

The act of changing one's views or course, as in passing from one side, party, or from of religion to another; also, the state of being so changed.

An appropriation of, and dealing with the property of another as if it were one's own, without right; as, the conversion of a horse.

The act of interchanging the terms of a proposition, as by putting the subject in the place of the predicate, or the contrary.

A change or reduction of the form or value of a proposition; as, the conversion of equations; the conversion of proportions.

A change of front, as a body of troops attacked in the flank.

A change of character or use, as of smoothbore guns into rifles.

A spiritual and moral change attending a change of belief with conviction; a change of heart; a change from the service of the world to the service of God; a change of the ruling disposition of the soul, involving a transformation of the outward life.

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Conversion Quotations

Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion - it is a daily process whereby you grow to be more and more like Christ.
Billy Graham

In conversion you are not attached primarily to an order, nor to an institution, nor a movement, nor a set of beliefs, nor a code of action - you are attached primarily to a Person, and secondarily to these other things.
E. Stanley Jones

To pass from estrangement from God to be a son of God is the basic fact of conversion. That altered relationship with God gives you an altered relationship with yourself, with your brother man, with nature, with the universe.
E. Stanley Jones

A revival does two things. First, it returns the Church from her backsliding and second, it causes the conversion of men and women; and it always includes the conviction of sin on the part of the Church. What a spell the devil seems to cast over the Church today!
Billy Sunday

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

Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my intuition had always known.
Madeleine L'Engle

I held a conference in Harvard where Americans said they didn't believe in risk. They thought it was just European hysteria. Then the terrorist attacks happened and there was a complete conversion. Suddenly terrorism was the central risk.
Ulrich Beck

I read Freud's Introductory Lectures in Psychoanalysis in basically one sitting. I decided to enroll in medical school. It was almost like a conversion experience.
Stanislav Grof

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

In the Middle Ages and beyond, the target was the Court Jew who had the ear of the ruler; during the Inquisition it was the Spanish Jews who thrived after their conversion to Christianity.
Jack Schwartz

Conversion Translations

conversion in French is conversion
conversion in German is Umformung, Umsetzung, Konvertierung, Umsetzung
conversion in Norwegian is forvandling

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