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.
![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.](http://cdn.quoteddaily.com/images/flannery-oconnor/once-the-process-of-conversion-is-begun-and-continuesyou-are-continually-turning-inward-toward-god-and-away-from-your-own.jpg)