Vanessa Redgrave Quotes

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.

Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.

My mother's belief in spiritual healers grew stronger after our family went through a rough patch following my father's death. Sufi saint Karimullah Shah Kadri changed our lives, and all of us converted to Sufism. But it wasn't an instantaneous decision - it took us 10 years to convert. The change in religion was like washing away the past.

After deep exercise of soul I was brought by grace to feel I could entirely.

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

No one had to worry about Peter after his conversion. Your investigators can be that converted.

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

We have no desire to convince anyone that there is only one way by which faith can be acquired.

I was a convert to Catholicism, and converts are much more devout.

Heart-suffering because of sin is the best proof that the Holy Spirit dwells in your heart.

He [the Rev. Mr. Whitefield] used, indeed, sometimes to pray for my conversion, but never had the satisfaction of believing that his prayers were heard.

If you decide you want to change your life around, it doesn't matter where you came from, what you did, if you were incarcerated or you are from the projects, if you are an uppity kid who came from a really wealthy family - and all of them do drugs and are into that life - it doesn't matter; come as you are, and God does his work.

I did some acting in college. But then everything stopped when I was a junior, in the fall of 2001, when I started becoming religious. Once I became a full-on Hasidic, I stopped everything. I stopped music. I stopped acting.

As we move into the 21st century, there's what the Bible calls a 'quickening of the spirit.'

For Christians, they need to access the power of Jesus and not look at Christianity as a religion. It is our Lord Jesus that makes you change, and Christians need to actualize it and put it into practice.

Often we talk about God's ability to change lives without fully understanding how to access that power.

The Lord will bless us with more baptisms if you make sure the ones you have are going to keep their commitments. The Lord will not prepare more people for baptism if we are not converting the ones we have.

I believe in prayer and in strong belief.

Faith is not a thing which one 'loses', we merely cease to shape our lives by it.

Christianity is a religion of continuity and discontinuity as well. It's about what stays the same and what changes in the twinkling of an eye. Both are necessary truths, but sometimes it's important to accentuate the discontinuity, the sudden leap, the way you go up a tree, Zacchaeus, and come down a saint.

One of the values of centering prayer is that you are not thinking about God during the time of centering prayer so you are giving God a chance to manifest. In centering prayer there are moments of peace that give the psyche a chance to realize that God may not be so bad after all. God has a chance to be himself for a change.

Can human hearts be changed? Why, of course! It happens every day in the great missionary work of the Church. It is one of the most widespread of Christ's modern miracles. If it hasn't happened to you - it should.

Christ preferred the poor; ever since I have been converted so have I.

A revolution is to bring on change and we're spiritual people trying to bring on spiritual change. It might sound like I'm a dreamer, but economic models have reached their height of evolution. Technology has evolved. What hasn't evolved is mankind's spirituality; everything is from 3,000 years ago.

When you're in prison, you either embrace religion or you reject it. I embraced it; it was a very spiritual time for me.