The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on
those living in the land of the shadow of death a light has
dawned.
-- Isaiah 9:2 (NIV)

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Quotation:
To pass from estrangement from God to be a son of God is
the basic fact of conversion. That altered relationship with
God gives you an altered relationship with yourself, with your
brother man, with nature, with the universe. You are no longer
working against the grain of the universe; you?re working with
it... You have been forgiven by God and now you can forgive
yourself. All self hate, self-despising, self-rejection, drop
away, and you accept yourself in God, respect yourself, and
love yourself... You cease to move into yourself, away from
others. You give up your antagonism. You begin to move toward
others in love. God moved toward you in gracious, outgoing
love, and you move toward others in that same outgoing love.
... E. Stanley Jones (1884-1973), Conversion [1959]