from
The Varieties of Religious Experience, William James:
Men lapse from every level - we need no statistics to tell us that. Love is, for instance well known not to be irrevocable, yet, constant or inconstant, it reveals new flights and reaches of ideality while it lasts. These revelations form its significance to men and women, whatever be its duration. So with the conversion experience: that it should for even a short time show a human being what the high-water mark of his spiritual capacity is, this is what constitutes its importance—an importance which backsliding cannot diminish, although persistence might increase it.
[persistence 'might' bc it's like sasquatch] [like jesus]