Quotes about Transformation

The earth remains jagged and broken only to him or her who remains jagged and broken.

The pleasure of heaven are with me, and the pains of hell are with me, The first I graft and increase upon myself . . . . the latter I translate into a new tongue.

And as to you corpse I think you are good manure, but that does not offend me, I smell the white roses sweetscented and growing, I reach to the leafy lips . . . . I reach to the polished breasts of melons.

God must bring us to a point--I cannot tell you how it will be, but He will do it--where, through a deep and dark experience, our natural power is touched and fundamentally weakened, so that we no longer dare trust ourselves.

We recognize already that regeneration of the spirit is the paramount need of man.

If you have not experienced the death of self, your spiritual life will have little real progress.

Here is invariably a spiritual fact: Our spirit is released according to the degree of our brokenness.

The electric bulb cannot give light without electricity. Likewise, you cannot change yourself if today you are cut off from Christ. If there be any change or difference in you, it is not because you yourself have changed, for all is in Christ. Such is the way of God's salvation.[2]

Many Christians are unaware how drastically the cross must work so that ultimately their natural power for living may be denied.

Because it has been so united with the devil it is vital for man to receive from God a change of mind before he can receive a new heart.

Emotion must go through the cross (Matt. 10.38-39) in order to destroy its fiery nature, with its confusion, and to subject it totally to the spirit. The cross aims to accord the spirit authority to rule over every activity of emotion.

Every true spiritual experience means that we have discovered a certain fact in Christ and have entered into that. Anything that is not from Him in this way is an experience that is going to evaporate very soon.