Quotes about Transformation
Don't try to change people. It won't work, and they will end up resenting you. Only God can change people!
— Joyce Meyer
Sanctification is not a work of nature, but a work of grace. It is a transformation of character effected not by moral influences, but supernaturally by the Holy Spirit.
— Charles Hodge
God often does His best work in us when He catches us by surprise and introduces a change that is completely against our own desire.
— Charles Swindoll
Give me great sinners to make great saints! They are glorious raw material for Grace to work upon and when you do get them saved, they will shake the very gates of Hell!
— Charles Spurgeon
But our hearts are more elastic than we think, and the work of forgiveness and transformation and growth can do things you can't even imagine from where you're standing now.
— Shauna Niequist
God has ways of shaking the world when He is at work. He literally caused the ground to quake when Jesus died on the cross.
— Charles Stanley
Trying harder doesn't work for me. Slowly I've learned to pray for God's help and He has become my greatest love and desire.
— Francis Chan
Begin a fast, and trust God to work that in your heart.
— Jentezen Franklin
Change yourself and your work will seem different.
— Norman Vincent Peale
The movement toward gratitude, authenticity, and union is the natural and organic inner work of the second half of our lives.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
The work of God's Holy Spirit begins with bruising. In order to be saved, the fallow ground must be plowed up, the hard heart must be broken, the rock must be split apart.
— Charles Spurgeon
Remember that this is not something we do just once or twice. Interrupting our destructive habits and awakening our heart is the work of a lifetime.
— Pema Chodron