Quotes about Transformation

Faith in Christ as a personal Saviour will give strength and solidity to the character.

There are many who profess Christ, but who never become mature Christians.

By contemplation of God's matchless love, we take upon us His nature.

One day's experience had been the turning point in Joseph's life. Its terrible calamity had transformed him from a petted child to a man, thoughtful, courageous, and self-possessed.

A character formed according to the divine likeness is the only treasure that we can take from this world to the next.

If you are to be saints in heaven, you must first be saints upon the earth.

Shall we lay hold upon the hope set before us in the gospel that we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is?

But Christ, after having redeemed man from the condemnation of the law, could impart divine power to unite with human effort. Thus by repentance toward God and faith in Christ the fallen children of Adam might once more become "sons of God." 1 John 3:2.

Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?

All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.

I cannot say for sure when my reliable ideas about God began to slip away, but the big chest I used to keep them in is smaller than a shoebox now. Most of the time, I feel so ashamed about this that I do not own up to it unless someone else mentions it first. Then we find a quiet place where we can talk about what it is like to feel more and more devoted to a relationship that we are less and less able to say anything about.

I noted that it is sometimes hard to tell whether you are being killed or saved by the hands that turn your life upside down.