A man to be converted has to give up his will, his ways, and his thoug — Religious conversion

"I would not seek to force people to live up to my ideals but rather love them into doing the thing that is right."

"Conversion by the Holy Spirit is a spiritual illumination of the soul. Gods grace lights up the dark heart. And when a man has once been kindled at the cross of Christ, he is bound to shine."

"Conversion is not, as some suppose, a violent opening of the heart by grace, in which will, reason, and judgment are all ignored or crushed. The reason is not blinded, but enlightened; and the whole man is made to act with a glorious liberty which it never knew till it fell under the restraints of grace."

"The time when I was converted was when religion became no longer a duty, but a pleasure."

"It [Islam] has had a calamitous effect on converted peoples. To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesnt matter... This abolition of the self demanded by Muslims was worse than the similar colonial abolition of identity. It is much, much worse in fact... You cannot just say you came out of nothing."

"Conversion from one faith to another is both psychologically undesirable and logically unwarranted."