Quotes about Transformation

God's plan is not to abandon this world, the world which he said was "very good." Rather, he intends to remake it. And when he does he will raise all his people to new bodily life to live in it. That is the promise of the Christian gospel.

Ours is an active faith. It is made alive and appealing only when our nouns turn into verbs.

Oh, God show me more of Your holiness. Show me more of my sinfulness. Help me to hate sin and to love righteousness as You do. Grant me a deeper conviction of sin and a more thorough spirit of repentance. And make me holy as You are holy.

Then and now, broken sinners are the kinds of people God chooses to save, to bless, and to help.

Surrender to the will of God is a mark of the truly converted.

You and I will never meet God in revival until we first meet Him in brokenness.

once we enter into a relationship with Christ through His shed blood, we have been eternally cleansed. But we allow our lives to become soiled by this world or by our own natural choices, we need to return to be washed once more.

Christian art should grow out of the robust confidence that nothing is unredeemable—that Jesus himself entered into the darkest levels of human experience and transformed them into sources of life and renewal.

The more you reaffirm who you are in Christ, the more your behavior will being to reflect your true identity.

All Christians have their sins forgiven, but in most cases they are not experiencing revival.

You don't become a Christian by acting like one. You are not on a performance basis with God. He doesn't say, "Here are My standards, now you measure up." He knows you can't solve the problem of an old sinful self by simply improving your behavior. He must change your nature, give you an entirely new self—the life of Christ in you—which is the grace you need to measure up to His standards.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.