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In my view, conversion does not mean adding an extra dimension – the religious – to all other dimensions of our existence, but the unsnarling of the tangled threads of our lives, so that, by an act of the will, we bring our priorities into line with these of Jesus and derive the power for living from the same sources as that from which Jesus drew his.
Hence, when someone approaches me with the light of religious fervour in his eyes and assures me joyously that he has been converted, I do not want to know what effect this experience has had upon his churchgoing or prayer life, but how it has manifested itself on the pressure points of his life – in his attitudes to sex, money, power, race, politics, etc. etc.
taken from:
The Word and the Words page 149