48 Verbs to Use for the Word converts

"You blockhead!" exclaimed his Majesty, "LIE BIG, the editor of the Sun, is not coming back for some time; he is of more service to me on earth, making converts for my jurisdiction, than the public are probably aware.

Now that he was in overwhelming force he thought he saw an even better chance of earning gratitude from rebels and winning converts to the loyal side by a still greater act of clemency.

That it could not have been the object of the apostle to bind the Corinthian converts to the stations and employments in which the Gospel found them.

There seems to be something in its teachings which renders the native a ready convert.

He could reason warmly, if not acutely, concerning the principles of government, and it would be difficult, even in this money-getting age, to find a more zealous convert to the opinion that property was not a subordinate, but the absorbing interest of civilized life.

Their resolutions were officially communicated to the sympathizing societies in England, and emissaries were secretly encouraged to cross the Channel in the hope of gaining converts.

You will doubtless, then, agree with me, that it is not probable that the Apostles taught their heathen converts, directly and specifically, the sinfulness of war.

But our great work is to gather converts from the heathen.

The question between persuasion and force remains apartunless, indeed, we may say that in societies where habits of free discussion have once begun to take root, those who are least really sure about their opinions, are often most unwilling to trust to persuasion to bring them converts, and most disposed to grasp the rude implements of coercion, whether legal or merely social.

It still contains the font from which he baptized his many English converts.

Paul took the latter view; declared circumcision to be useless, and freely admitted heathen converts into the Church without it, in opposition to those who virtually insisted on a Gentile becoming a Jew before he could become a Christian.

The work was very satisfactory, strengthening the converts of the previous year, and swelling the list of accessions.

From this brief review of the natural features of the country, some idea may be formed of the intensity of the religious enthusiasm which has induced fifty thousand Mormon converts to traverse it, many of them on foot and trundling handcarts, to seek a home among the valleys of Utah, in a region hardly more propitious; and some idea, also, of the difficulties which were to attend the march of the army.

Through the agency of what is called the Perpetual Emigration Fund of the Church, the capital of which amounts to several millions of dollars,which was instituted professedly to befriend, but really to fleece the foreign converts,few Englishmen arrive at Salt Lake City without having exhausted their own means and incurred an amount of debt which it requires the labor of many years to discharge.

In later times an immense number of Jews were converted to the Christian religion; but the hatred of the people was not extinguished thereby, and mistrust followed these converts into their new state.

Manoël, a king of Portugal, forbad the converts from selling their goods and leaving his dominions.

Wherever he went converts seem to have come in to him in crowds.

I cannot at all imagine myself a convert; but how am I likely, in the probable state of things, to be able to serve as an English clergyman? Shall I ever get Priest's orders?

The affrighted priests fled, leaving behind a chapel with some pictures which they had instructed the converts to regard in offering up their prayers.

My mind had awakened to the despotism of Roman Catholicism, and the church had lost its expected convert.

Was ever what George Sand justly terms 'the great martyrdom of maternity'that fearful trial which love alone converts into joy unspeakableendured under such conditions?

Many years after, Brother Bolles was happily surprised to meet his convert, who had grown into a Christian gentleman of exalted position in society.

While from the fifth to the eighth century the work of the Irish Church was thus yearly increasing, spreading its net wider and wider, and numbering its converts by thousands, not much good can be reported of the secular history of Ireland during the same period.

There are always a few Jewish renegades in large Moorish towns, just enough, I imagine, to convince the Mahometans of the superiority of their religion to that of other nations; for whilst they obtain converts from both Jews and Christians, and make proselytes of scores of Blacks, they never hear of apostates from Islamism.

They gave the crucifix, which covered up all sins; they permitted their converts to retain their ancient habits and customs.

48 Verbs to Use for the Word  converts