Quotes about Transformation

Christianity doesn't leave us in an apathetic stupor; it raises us and our relationships from the dead! It pours zest and strength and purpose into an otherwise wasted life.

Honesty demands directness: God has to discipline us to transform us.

If we accept that the love of praise is a sin, that the lust to be known and appreciated by others is not just a fool's errand...but perhaps evidence of a heart focused on the wrong things, our marriages will be transformed.

Becoming fixated on something you can't now undo. That's what forgiveness and grace are for — a fresh start, a new beginning. God offers grace precisely for the reason that he wants to forgive us. He is eager to forgive us so we can start afresh and live a new meaningful life in service to him from this point on.

Spiritual purpose and mission can overcome weaknesses in character because God redeems our characters...

We conceal, but God wants to heal, and to do that, He must first expose.

In case you've never thought about it, a woman's body changes much more rapidly than her character does.

And yet,' she said gently, 'God hasn't come to a standstill.' Suddenly she laughed. 'I think you're like one of your own lumps of clay, Andy. God has a plan for you, and He's trying to get you into the centre of it, and you keep dodging and slithering away.' She turned her dark eyes on mine. 'How do you know? Maybe He wants to make you into something wonderful!

The most important discovery of my whole life is that one can take a little rough cabin and transform it into a palace just by flooding it with God.

Sometimes I consider myself there as a stone before a carver, whereof he is to make a statue; presenting myself thus before GOD, I desire Him to form His perfect image in my soul, and make me entirely like Himself.

Our sanctification does not depend upon changing what we do, but in doing for God's sake what we normally do for our own sake.

He said that our sanctification does not depend as much on changing our activities as it does on doing them for God rather than for ourselves.