Glossary of Inspirational Quotes that Rekindle the Soul
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| Quote:Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding; it seeks to annihilate rather than to convert. Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:Time makes more converts than reason.[Thomas Paine] Quote:The only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.[Franklin D. Roosevelt] Definitions of: convertDefinition: To cause to turn; to turn.Definition: To change or turn from one state or condition to another; to alter in form, substance, or quality; to transform; to transmute; as, to convert water into ice. Definition: To change or turn from one belief or course to another, as from one religion to another or from one party or sect to another. Definition: To produce the spiritual change called conversion in (any one); to turn from a bad life to a good one; to change the heart and moral character of (any one) from the controlling power of sin to that of holiness. Definition: To apply to any use by a diversion from the proper or intended use; to appropriate dishonestly or illegally. Definition: To exchange for some specified equivalent; as, to convert goods into money. Definition: To change (one proposition) into another, so that what was the subject of the first becomes the predicate of the second. Definition: To turn into another language; to translate. Definition: A person who is converted from one opinion or practice to another; a person who is won over to, or heartily embraces, a creed, religious system, or party, in which he has not previously believed; especially, one who turns from the controlling power of sin to that of holiness, or from unbelief to Christianity. Definition: A lay friar or brother, permitted to enter a monastery for the service of the house, but without orders, and not allowed to sing in the choir. |
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