![Once the process [of conversion] is begun and continues...you are continually turning inward toward God and away from your own egocentricity...you have to see this selfish side of yourself in order to turn away from it. I measure God by everything I am not. I begin with that.](/assets/img/quote-photos/once-the-process-of-conversion-is-begun-and-continuesyou-are-continually-tur.jpg)
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