Quotes about Transformation

Clean up a pigsty," she commented one evening, "and if the creatures in it still have pig-minds and pig-desires, soon it will be the same old pigsty again.

We don't have to accept blandness in life. God, who is the author of creativity, is ready to make a dull life adventuresome the moment we allow his Holy Spirit to go to work inside us.

It isn't because of who I am, Maureen. It's because of who He is and what He's done—what He longs to do in you!

I have found there are four steps to change. 1. You must want it. 2. You must believe it. 3. You must live it. 4. You will become it.

No one who has passed through the storm has ever regretted the journey. No one stands here and wishes to go back to the other side.

If you don't change, you're dead or dead inside.

Trust me: if you just pick up the really obvious bread crumbs, you will find that you have more than enough to find your path. It will transform your life. God isn't trying to hide anything from you. He's not being coy or playing games for His own amusement. He's trying hard to show you the way.

Our current plight is not made inevitable by human nature. What once was could be again—in a new way.

Change seems recognizable only after it's happened, like putting one's foot down for a familiar stair—and it's not there.

When people ask me why I still have hope and energy after all these years, I always say: Because I travel... Taking to the road — by which I mean letting the road take you — changed who I thought I was. The road is messy in the way that real life is messy. It leads us out of denial and into reality, out of theory and into practice, out of caution and into action, out of statistics and into stories —in short, out of our heads and into our hearts.

Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.

DEATH... To stop sinning suddenly.