CONVERSION – The Varieties of Religious Experience

The Varieties of Religious Experience William James A Study in Human Nature LECTURE IX – CONVERSION, thoughtsofgod.com, Thoughts of God, David Reese

To be converted, to be regenerated, to receive grace, to experience religion, to gain an assurance, are so many phrases which denote the process, gradual or sudden, by which a self hitherto divided, and consciously wrong inferior and unhappy, becomes unified and consciously right superior and happy, in consequence of its firmer hold upon religious realities.