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“Conversion is in its essence a normal adolescent phenomenon, incidental to the passage from the child's small universe to the wider intellectual and spiritual life of maturity.”

Children Spiritual Universe Normal Intellectual Essence Conversion Maturity Phenomenon Passages Spiritual Life

Book:The William James Reader

Source: The William James Reader

“Character is the spiritual body of the person, and represents the individualization of vital experience, the conversion of unconscious things into self-conscious men.”

Men Persons Self Character Body Spiritual Conscious Conversion Unconscious Self Conscious Individualization

Book:Character and characteristic men

Source: Character and characteristic men

“Regeneration is a spiritual change; conversion is a spiritual motion.”

Spiritual Conversion Regeneration Spiritual Change

Book:The Doctrine of Regeneration: Selected from the Writings of Stephen Charnock

Source: The Doctrine of Regeneration: Selected from the Writings of Stephen Charnock

“It is hard to think of conversion as a blinding light on the road to Damascus, or as a highly spiritual or intellectual process, when the light comes from a flickering television; the voice of the deity is Bishop Sheen and you have drilled your father on his catechism answers...I was troubled at a young age by the idea that pouring water over someone's head could change both his relationship to God.”

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Author:Susan Jacoby

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

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Author:Theodore L. Cuyler

“I feel it is my Christian duty to be at least as careful in my personal grooming, if not more so, than before my conversion. You may have dry hair and my habits may not be workable for you. But shampooing my hair twice a week is as much a part of my spiritual life as my daily quiet time.”

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Book:WOMAN TO WOMAN

Source: WOMAN TO WOMAN

“To attain peace among the nations in any dynamic or enduring form requires not simply political negotiation but a new mode of consciousness. The magnitude of this change is in the order of religious conversion or of spiritual rebirth rather than of treaty processes or even of inter-cultural understanding. Simply to recognize the basic nature and dimension of the issues we face is already an advance.”

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Author:Thomas Berry

“I sometimes fear that we have so redefined conversion in terms of human decisions and have so removed any necessity of the experience of God’s Spirit, that many people think they are saved when in fact they only have Christian ideas in their head not spiritual power in their heart.”

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Author:John Piper

“As it is with spiritual discoveries and affections given at first conversion, so it is in all subsequent illuminations and affections of that kind; they are all transforming. There is a like divine power and energy in them as in the first discoveries; they still reach the bottom of the heart, and affect and alter the very nature of the soul, in proportion to the degree in which they are given. And a transformation of nature is continued and carried on by them to the end of life, until it is brought to perfection in glory.”

Source: A treatise concerning religious affections. Five discourses on important subjects