Conversion: Christian and Non-Christian; a Comparative and Psychological StudyG. Allen & Unwin, 1925 - 283 pages Representation of regeneration -- Conversion and adolescence -- Experiences preceding conversion -- Types of conversion -- The immediate accompaniments of conversion -- The psychological mechanism of conversion -- Conversion during revivals -- The fruits of conversion -- The individual and the social -- Conversion in its comparative aspects. |
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Page 172 - Therefore, O Ananda, be ye lamps unto yourselves. Be ye a refuge to yourselves. Betake yourselves to no external refuge. Hold fast to the truth as a lamp. Hold fast as a refuge to the truth. Look not for refuge to any one besides yourselves.
Page 42 - And such were some of you : but ye were washed, but ye were sanctified, but ye were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and in the Spirit of our God.
Page 49 - There is one ruler, the Self within all things, who makes the one form manifold. The wise who perceive him within their Self, to them belongs eternal happiness, not to others.
Page 14 - 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.
Page 230 - And all that believed were together, and had all things in common; and they sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all according as any man had need.
Page 24 - For John came unto you in the way of righteousness, and ye believed him not ; but the publicans and the harlots believed him; and ye, when ye had seen it, repented not afterward, that ye might believe him.
Page 49 - Self. Evil does not overcome him, he overcomes all evil. Evil does not burn him, he burns all evil. Free from evil, free from spots, free from doubt, he becomes a true Brahman; — enters the Brahma world.
Page 69 - When this knowledge, this insight had arisen within me, my heart was set free from intoxication of lusts, set free from the intoxication of becomings, set free from the intoxication of ignorance. In me, thus emancipated, there arose the certainty of that emancipation. And I came to know : "Rebirth is at an end. The higher life has been fulfilled. What had to be done has been accomplished.
Page 43 - And this continued by the space of two years; so that all they which dwelt in Asia heard the word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews and Greeks.
Page 165 - The rising of my soul was so great that I rushed into the room back of the front office, to pray. "There was no fire, and no light, in the room; nevertheless it appeared to me as if it were perfectly light. As I went in and shut the door after me, it seemed as if I met the Lord Jesus Christ face to face.