Quotes about Transformation

We wanted to prove to everybody that we weren't the same old Tessa and Scott, trying to do the same tricks again. We wanted to be different.

It's tricky to take a book of short stories and turn it into a feature film.

'Discipleship' as a term has lost its content, and this is one reason why it has been moved aside. I've tried to redeem the idea of discipleship, and I think it can be done; you have to get it out of the contemporary mode.

Most Christian 'believers' tend to echo the cultural prejudices and worldviews of the dominant group in their country, with only a minority revealing any real transformation of attitudes or consciousness. It has been true of slavery and racism, classism and consumerism and issues of immigration and health care for the poor.

Ring out the false, ring in the true.

To truly repent of a big thing, you have to go into it with your heart open and force yourself to deal with it at that level and to apologize to God.

God wants to change us so much that it intrigues others.

Faith is not accepting the world as it is but insisting on building the world God wants.

God is patient with us to become the God's children he wants us to be but you really can see him weeping.

Our natural virtues can never come anywhere near what Jesus Christ wants.

Get alone with Jesus and either tell Him that you do not want sin to die out in you - or else tell Him that at all costs you want to be identified with His death.

People change when they hurt enough that they have to change, learn enough that they want to change, receive enough that they are able to change.