Sentences with phrase «sudden conversion she experienced»

I do find it incredible that in the sudden conversion she experienced, she instantly knew that Catholicism was the correct path.

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They were, however, more concerned with the emotional experience of salvation by a sudden conversion than they were with theological dogmas.

Further, the primary emphasis on a sudden, dramatic experience leads to an under - emphasis on the less dramatic process of growth following the conversion.

If, abstracting altogether from the question of their value for the future spiritual life of the individual, we take them on their psychological side exclusively, so many peculiarities in them remind us of what we find outside of conversion that we are tempted to class them along with other automatisms, and to suspect that what makes the difference between a sudden and a gradual convert is not necessarily the presence of divine miracle in the care of one and of something less divine in that of the other, but rather a simple psychological peculiarity, the fact, namely, that in the recipient of the more instantaneous grace we have one of those Subjects who are in possession of a large region in which mental work can go on subliminally, and from which invasive experiences, abruptly upsetting the equilibrium of the primary consciousness, may come.

In cases of conversion, in providential leadings, sudden mental healings, etc., it seems to the subjects themselves of the experience as if a power from without, quite different from the ordinary action of the senses or of the sense - led mind, came into their life, as if the latter suddenly opened into that greater life in which it has its source.

«You mean in a flash — some sudden overwhelming conversion experience?»

Being away from London is challenging his opinions apparently, but he hasn't experienced a sudden conversion.