Sometimes the sun is up before you know whether it has risen or not, because a long morning twilight precedes its actual appearance above the horizon. So it may be that spiritual life dawns by slow degrees, before we quite perceive it in our souls; but yet there is a time when it begins. There is a point at which the unsaved become saved, and the unregenerate become regenerate; and there is a broad line between the two characters. On which side are you?
— C. H. Spurgeon (1834 – 1892)