Quotes about Transformation
Destruction is a form of creation.
— Graham Greene
five years work many changes. At the end of a war all our portraits are out of date: the timid man had been given a gun to slay with, and the brave man had found is nerve fail him in the barrage.
— Graham Greene
God can use anyone who truly decides he or she is "for Jesus," as Greg did in 1970, to accomplish extraordinary things for His kingdom.
— Greg Laurie
If you want to see a revival, do revival-like things.
— Greg Laurie
Like the prodigal's father, God accepts us as we are. But He doesn't want to leave us that way. God will change us.
— Greg Laurie
We tend to become the decisions we make. The more we choose something, the more we become that something. We are all in the process of solidifying our identities by the decisions we make. With each decision we make, we pick up momentum in the direction of that decision.
— Gregory Boyd
This is what we are called to be: a community characterized by radical, revolutionary, Calvary-quality love; a community that manifests the love of the triune God (John 17:21—26); a community that strives for justice not by conquering but by being willing to suffer; a community that God uses to transform the world by providing it with an alternative to its own self-centered, violent way of existing.
— Gregory Boyd
What the fear of hell could not do, my discovery of the love of God could do: it began to permanently break the stronghold
— Gregory Boyd
Our call is to trust that the foolishness of self-sacrificial love will overcome evil in the end. Our call is to manifest the beauty of a Savior who loves indiscriminately while revolting against all hatred and violence. This is the humble mustard seed revolution that will in the end transform the world.
— Gregory Boyd
Where the Holy Spirit is moving, sick people will be free to be unhealthy and thus will be free to be healed.
— Gregory Boyd
If we hope to be transformed, we have to allow God's Word to have more credibility than our present feelings.
— Gregory Boyd
I believe one of the most pervasive problems in contemporary Western Christianity is that we mistakenly assume that information automatically translates into transformation.
— Gregory Boyd