Quotes about Transformation

Oh, that God would purge away my dross, and take away my tin, and refine me seven times.

This light is such as effectually influences the inclination, and changes the nature of the soul. It assimilates the nature to the divine nature, and changes the soul into an image of the same glory that is beheld: 2 Cor. iii. 18, "But we all, with open face, beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord." This knowledge will wean from the world and raise the inclination to heavenly things.

Life has a funny way of turning you into the one thing you don't want to be.

Your Father's greatest desire for you is that you would be like Him, that you would be holy. He cares more about your transformation than your happiness, more about your spiritual maturity than your comfort.

We have observed two common yet flawed views that unfortunately impact a church's likelihood to make disciples that are transformed: equating information with discipleship and viewing discipleship merely as behavioral modification. Discipleship is much more than information and much deeper than behavioral modification.

We become like the God/god we behold. We appear like the God/god we admire. We duplicate the God/god we deify. We favor the God/god we follow. We match the God/god we magnify.

How can you change the world? The answer: find seven women, turn them loose, and watch Satan tremble in their presence."

Bonhoeffer's change was not an ungainly, embarrassing leap from which he would have to retreat slightly when he gained more maturity and perspective. It was by all accounts a deepening consistent with what had gone before.

He could hardly recognize it as something that had grown out of what he had begun.

No one has yet believed in God and the kingdom of God, no one has yet heard about the realm of the resurrected, and not been homesick from that hour, waiting and looking forward joyfully to being released from bodily existence... Death is hell and night and cold, if it is not transformed by our faith. But that is just what is so marvelous, that we can transform death.

The preaching of grace can only be protected by the preaching of repentance.

He willed the entire life of believers to be one of repentance.