Quotes about Transformation

God's not afraid of a mess. He wants to do a cleaning.

Once you reach a certain age, you're either slowly dying or slowly being reborn. I want to choose the latter.

God does not want you to become a God; he wants you to become godly - taking on his values, attitudes, and character.

Whatever God wants to do through you, He will do in you first. You've got to be what you want to see.

I've discovered that when we take time to renew our minds with God's Word, we learn how to think like God thinks, say what God says, and act like He wants us to act.

We must become holy, not because we want to feel holy, but because Christ must be able to live his life fully in us.

It is a trap to presume that God wants to make us perfect specimens of what He can do— God's purpose is to make us one with Himself.

Our identification with Christ should be that whatever He is we also want to become.

We might think that God wanted simply obedience to a set of rules: whereas He really wants people of a particular sort.

Go straight for souls, and go for the worst.

We are Jesus Christ's; we belong to him. But even more, we are increasingly him. He moves in and commandeers our hands and feet, requisitions our minds and tongues. We sense his rearranging: debris into the divine, pig's ear into silk purse. He repurposes bad decisions and squalid choices. Little by little, a new image emerges.

I am the servant of all great individuals and, alas, of all failures, as well. Those who are great, I have made great. Those who are failures, I have made failures.