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Converted and Natural Men Indistinguishable


William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, p. 233, quoted in Disappointment With God, Philip Yancey, Zondervan, p. 217

Converted men as a class are indistinguishable from natural men; some natural men even excel some converted men in their fruits; and no one ignorant of doctrinal theology could guess by mere every-day inspection of the "accidents" of the two groups of persons before him that their substance differed as much as divine differs from human substance.