Quotes about Transformation

The Holy Spirit rebuilds our "walls of salvation" by correcting our old, broken patterns of thinking and establishing new strongholds of truth that bring health and strength to every dimension of our beings.

As the Holy Spirit restores us, He trains our wills to choose thoughts, values and behaviors that bring Him praise.

Love is sunshine to the rose. It can't stop shinin' just because the bud begins to bloom.

in reality only a change in the attitude of the individual can bring about a renewal in the spirit of nations. Everything begins with the individual.

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light," he said, "but by making the darkness conscious. The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable and therefore not popular.

God's vision for us doesn't just reassure us that we matter and that our lives do count for something. God's vision compels us to look beyond ourselves, to ponder a picture of how things were meant to be that leaves us aching for his will to be done on earth as it is in heaven, and to look for ways to participate in moving the world toward that goal. One of the biggest issues confronting us today is the battle cry of Amy Carmichael and the burning challenge of Half the Sky.

No life is ever beyond the reach of the gospel's restorative powers, no matter how a woman's story plays out.

Sometimes walking with God means learning truth requires means rethinking your entire life.

Conflict brings out the leader in us, transforms our lives from the mundane to the cosmic, and by God's grace forges us into more compassionate, selfless leaders.

Conflict in our stories isn't in the way; it is the way--to becoming better leaders, better image bearers, to creating a better story--to the fulfillment of the Story.

What we discover is transforming grace (Romans 12:2) that leads Christians to "walk in newness of life" (Romans 6:4) and to avoid a life of sin (verses 1—14).

Much of late modernity assumes that dependence on God is a mark of human immaturity and an obstacle to human freedom. The life of Karol Wojtyla and his accomplishment as Pope John Paul II suggest a dramatic, alternative possibility: that a man who has been seized and transformed by the "more excellent way" can bend the curve of history so that freedom's cause is advanced.