Quotes about Transformation
The Bible's teaching on prayer leads overwhelmingly to one conclusion: Prayer changes things.
— John Ortberg
God's purpose in guidance is not to get us to perform the right actions. His purpose is to help us become the right kind of people.
— John Ortberg
The character of the faith that allows us to be transformed by suffering and darkness is not doubt-free certainty; rather, it is tenacious obedience.
— John Ortberg
a sense of the love of Christ in the cross; lie at the bottom of all true spiritual mortification
— John Owen
The Holy Spirit is promised of God to be given to us, to do this work (of mortification). The taking away of the stony heart, that is, the stubborn, proud, rebellious, unbelieving heart, is, in general, the work of mortification that we treat of.
— John Owen
It is not to learn the form of the doctrine of godliness, but to get the power of it implanted in our souls.
— John Owen
Some men speak much of the imitation of Christ, and following of his example; and it were well if we could see more of it really in effect. But no man shall ever become "like unto him" by bare imitation of his actions, without that view or intuition of his glory which alone is accompanied with a transforming power to change them into the same image.
— John Owen
The Mortification Of Sin In Particular Described
— John Owen
He that would be like unto God must be sure to love him, or all other endeavours to that purpose will be in vain; and he that loves God sincerely will be like him.
— John Owen
Every approach unto God by ardent love and delight is transfiguring. And it acts itself continually by,—(1.) Contemplation; (2.) Admiration; and, (3.) Delight in obedience.
— John Owen
The anointing, then, of believers with the Spirit consists in the collation of him upon them to this end, that he may graciously instruct them in the truths of the gospel by the saving illumination of their minds, causing their souls firmly to cleave unto them with joy and delight, and transforming them in the whole inward man into the image and likeness of it.
— John Owen
2.) Mortification prunes all the graces of God, and makes room for them in our hearts to grow.
— John Owen