Some of his biographers relate that on Christmas Eve, in the year 1486, Savonarola, while seated in the pulpit, remained immovable for five hours, in an ecstasy, or trance, and that his face seemed illuminated to all in the church, and that this occurred several times afterward.  Savonarola told his friend and biographer, the younger Pico della Mirandola, that on one occasion while meditating on the text, "Blessed are you, Oh Lord; teach me your statutes (prescriptions, remedies)," he felt his mind illuminated, and all doubts left him, and he felt more certainty of the things that were shown him than a philosopher did of first principles.
 
 

Madam Guyon

I felt at this instant deeply wounded with the Love of God.  A wound so delightful, that I desired it never might be healed. My heart was quite changed; God was there; for from that moment He had given me an experience of His presence in my soul - not merely an an object intellectually perceived by the application of the mind, but as a thing really possessed after the sweetest manner.  I experienced those words in the Canticles:  'Your name is as a precious ointment poured forth;  therefore do the virgins love You.'  For I felt in my soul an unction, which, as a salutary perfume healed in a moment all my wounds.  I slept not all that night, because Your Love, Oh my God, flowed in me like delicious oil, and burned as a fire which was going to destroy all that was left of self in an instant. I was all on a sudden so altered, that I was hardly to be known either to myself or others.
 
 

George Fox

A great work of the Lord fell on me, to the admiration of many who thought I had been dead;  and many came to see me for about fourteen days.  I was very much altered in countenance and person, as if my body had been new molded or changed.  While I was in that condition I had a sense and discerning given me by the Lord, through which I saw plainly that when many people talked of God and of Christ, etc., the serpent (Devil, Satan) spoke in them;  but this was hard to be borne.  Yet the work of the Lord went on in some, and my sorrows and troubles began to wear off, and tears of joy dropped from me, so that I could have wept night and day with tears of joy to the Lord, in humility and brokenness of heart.  I saw into that which was without end, and things which cannot be uttered, and of the greatness and infinitude of the Love of God, which cannot be expressed by words...
 
 

John Wesley

About three in the morning, as we were continuing instant in prayer, the Power of God came mightily upon us, insomuch that many cried out for exceeding joy, and many fell to the ground.  As soon as we recovered a little from the awe and amazement at the Presence of His Majesty, we broke out with one voice, "We praise You, Oh God, we acknowledge You to be the Lord."
 
 

George Whitefield

But oh, with what Joy, Joy unspeakable, even Joy that was full of, and big with Glory, was my soul filled, when the weight of sin went off; and an abiding sense of the pardoning Love of God, and a full assurance of faith broke in upon my disconsolate soul!
 
 

Christmas Evans

After I had commenced praying in the name of Jesus, I soon felt as if the shackles were falling off, and as if the mountains of snow and ice were melting within me.  I felt my whole spirit relieved of some great bondage, and as if it were rising up from the grave of a severe winter.  My tears flowed copiously, and I was constrained to cry aloud and pray for the gracious visits of God, for the Joy of His Salvation.
 
 

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