Convertible Quotes
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God's service in this name is the service of God's house, and therefore they are convertible. And who sees not, that whosoever ministers to the poor, ministers to God:;? As it appears in that solemn sentence of the last day, inasmuch as you did feed, clothe, lodge the poor, you did it unto me.
— Henry Hobart, Chief Justice of England, Pits v. James (1614), Lord Hobart's Rep. 125, reported in The Reports of that Reverend and Learned Judge, Sir Henry Hobart (1829), p. 273 (holding that a lay minister providing services to the poor under the title of minister did not defraud the public by the use of that title, as he was in fact providing religious services).
The dogs had eaten the upholstery of a Packard convertible that afternoon, and were consequently somewhat subdued.
— 1981The Last Laugh,'The Last Laugh'. Israeli statesman. In1994 he shared the Nobel peace prize with YasserArafat andYitzhak Rabin.
Who shall say that those poor peasants were not acting in the spirit we most venerate, most adore; that theirs was not the true heart language which we cannot choose but love? And what has been their reward? They have sent down their name to be the by-word of all after ages; the worst reproach of the worst men a name convertible with atheism and devil-worship.
james anthony froude— Letter IV (The Nemesis of Faith (1849))
