Quotes about Transformation

We cannot solve problems with the kind of thinking we employed when we came up with them

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

Not so much like drops of water, though water, it is true, can wear holes in the hardest granite; rather, drops of liquid sealing-wax, drops that adhere, incrust, incorporate themselves with what they fall on, till finally the rock is all one scarlet blob.

No, you accept the world, and you make use of it; you make use of everything you do, of everything that happens to you, of all the things you see and hear and taste and touch, as so many means to your liberation from the prison of yourself.

But God doesn't change." "Men do, though." "What difference does that make?" "All the difference in the world

I see her as a kind of Midas, turning everything she touched into imagination.

But God doesn't change.' 'Men do though.

Little input of God's Word results in little resemblance to God's Son.

Prayerful people become godly people, for prayerfulness with God cultivates godliness in all of life.

To be like Jesus, we must see the use of our time as a Spiritual Discipline.

Thus when someone is born again, the Holy Spirit gives that person new Fatherward desires, a new heavenward orientation whereby we cry, "Abba, Father!" In other words, all those indwelled by the Holy Spirit really want to pray. The Holy Spirit causes all the children of God to believe that God is their Father and fills them with an undying desire to talk to him.

Regardless of how busy we become with all things Christian, we must remember that the most transforming practice available to us is the disciplined intake of Scripture.