Quotes about Transformation

Christianity is not an accretion, it is not something added. It is a new total outlook which is satisfied with nothing less than penetration to the furthest corners of the mind and the understanding.

Many a life has come forth from the furnace of affliction more beautiful and more useful than before.

The world does need changing, society needs changing, the nation needs changing, but we never will change it until we ourselves are changed.

Pentecost was the day of power of the Holy Spirit. It was the day the Christian church was born.

I could recall countless illustrations of men and women who have encountered Jesus Christ... Their whole lives have been transformed.

The converted person will love the good he once hated, and hate the sin he once loved.

Christianity increases the scope and area of our lives.

Ask God to reveal hypocrisy in your life—an inconsistency between what you profess and what you practice. Then ask God to bring you so close to Christ that you won't have any desire to live an inconsistent, deceitful life.

I believe this is one of the tests of the Spirit-filled life. Is Christ becoming more and more evident in my life? Are people seeing more of Him, and less of me?

There are thousands of people who have had some form of emotional experience that they refer to as conversion but who have never been truly converted to Christ. Christ demands a change in the way you live—and if your life does not conform to your experience, then you have every reason to doubt your experience!

A born-again Christian should no more think of going back to the old life than an adult to his childhood.

A baby isn't meant to stay a baby forever, and neither is a new Christian.