Quotes about Transformation
I'll call nobodies and make them somebodies; I'll call the unloved and make them beloved. In the place where they yelled out, 'You're nobody!' they're calling you 'God's living children.
— Eugene Peterson
Jesus said "Follow me" and ended up with a lot of losers. And these losers ended up, through no virtue or talent of their own, becoming saints. Jesus wasn't after the best but the worst.
— Eugene Peterson
In Revelation 10, John eats the book—not just reads it—he got it into his nerve endings, his reflexes, his imagination. The book he ate was the Holy Scripture. Assimilated into his worship and prayer, his imagining and writing, the book he ate was metabolized into the book he wrote.
— Eugene Peterson
Would that I were under the cliffs, in the secrethiding-places of the rocks,that Zeus might change me to a winged bird.
— Euripides
You need to dismount when your horse is dead. What was relevant 20 years ago is no longer relevant today. Therefore, you need to reinvent yourself.
— Frans van Houten
Repentance means you change your mind so deeply that it changes you.
— Bruce Wilkinson
Twenty-eight days is what is takes to break a habit and to implement a new set of habits.
— Mandy Ingber
You cannot amputate your history from your destiny, because that is redemption.
— Beth Moore
Whatever God is urging you to clear away cannot begin to be compared to what He ultimately wants to bring you.
— Beth Moore
Only you can decide how your fires will affect you. Will you be sanctified or scarred.
— Beth Moore
When we've ceased hearing or changing, we need a new environment.
— Beth Moore
the Lord sometimes lets things happen to break the hardness . . . to make a heart pliable again.
— Beverly Lewis