Of his 1821 conversion, evangelist Charles Finney wrote: “As I went in and shut the door after me, it seemed as if I met the Lord Jesus Christ face to face. … No words can express the wonderful love that was shed abroad in my heart. I wept aloud with joy and love; and I do not know but I should say, I literally bellowed out the unutterable gushings of my heart.”
In The Kingdom of God in America (1937), H. Richard Niebuhr wrote: “Regeneration, the dying to the self and the rising to new life — now apparently sudden, now so slow and painful, so confused, so real, so mixed — becomes conversion which takes place on Sunday morning during the singing of the last hymn or twice a year when the revival preacher comes to town.”
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