Charles Portis Quotes

I find it extraordinary that anyone would have an intellectual conversion to Roman Catholicism.

I'm a born-again Christian. I was raised Episcopalian - I've always been of a Christian faith, but I became much more active in it when I married my first husband, Marvin. I changed from Episcopalian to Baptist.

I became a Catholic against my will.

I grew up Jewish, became an atheist and a Marxist, and 28 years ago, at age 26, became a Christian.

I need a long and lingering death to make sure that I have time to have a deathbed conversion.

I solemnly assure you that I will not die as a Hindu.

My mother converted, my mom converted to Judaism.

But for the first time, I had a religious identity. I had come home. And so I called myself a Zen Buddhist at the age of 18.

I support the death penalty and will continue to do that.

My father's life was changed right before my eyes [when he trusted Christ]. It was like someone reached down and switched on a light inside him. He touched alcohol only once after that. He got the drink only as far as his lips and that was it-after forty years of drinking! He didn't need it any more. Fourteen months later, he died form complications of his alcoholism. But in that fourteen-month period over a hundred people in the area around my tiny hometown committed their lives to Jesus Christ because of the change they saw in the town drunk, my dad.

I have seen miracles in my time, my brothers and sisters. The greatest miracle of all, I believe, is the transformation that comes into the life of a man or a woman who accepts the restored gospel of Jesus Christ and tries to live it in his or her life.

I am a reformed Catholic. I'm a Buddhist in other words.

Nobody can convert you except God.

The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. If you would take a man's life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you cannot bear to do that, then perhaps the man does not deserve to die.

A little philosophy makes a man an Atheist: a great deal converts him to religion

To slay the sinner is then the first use of the Law, to destroy the life and strength wherein he trusts and convince him that he is dead while he lives; not only under the sentence of death, but actually dead to God, void of all spiritual life, dead in trespasses and sins.

Jesus is knocking at your door. Take hold of the better life by letting him into your life. Make him the boss of your life. It'll change everything.

Conversion is not only changing the faith. Conversion is changing the heart and working over there is the grace of God. Then only comes the question of change of faith. Nobody can force you, not even the holy prophets.

I didn't just see myself as a film director here [in Life And Nothing More], but also as an observer of people who had been condemned to death.

I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.

In case anybody asks you about my position on capital punishment, you can tell them I favor it.

So that Sunday morning I ended up going to church and that’s when I got saved.

The Bible, which ranges over a period of four thousand years, records but one instance of a death-bed conversion (the thief on the cross) - one that none may despair, and but one that none may presume.

Entrance into Heaven is not at the hour of death, but at the moment of conversion.