Quotes about Transformation

Sin does not stop God's grace from flowing, but God's grace will stop sin.

We didn't get agitated over the closure of blacksmiths when people stopped riding horses and started driving cars.

I remember trying to turn one of my Barbies into Storm, and I melted her hair off.

When we tell the story of our own conversion, I would have it done with great sorrow, remembering what we used to be, and with great joy and gratitude, remembering how little we deserve these things.

Repentance and faith must be your daily lifestyle. Why? Because it lays you low and lifts you up at the same time.

Conflict with others is one of God's mysterious, counterintuitive ways of rescuing us from ourselves. God uses it to get us where he wants to take us before we die. Because we don't usually think that trials can be used in such a positive way, this truth catches us by surprise. But it shouldn't.

God is simply taking you where you do not want to go to produce in you what you could not achieve on your own.

We all want the wrong things, but God is in the business of changing what we want.

He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus." That good work begins in relationship to Jesus and is brought to completion within an ever-deepening union with him.

Change within community is counterintuitive to the way we often think, but Scripture clearly presents it as God's way of making us more like Christ.

God will not quit until every bit of his work is complete in each of his children. We can have courage and hope in any situation. God's dream for us will come true.

God's work is driven by an agenda so much grander than simply making our lives better. He wants to remake us into his likeness. And that likeness can be seen in Jesus.