Quotes about Transformation

It is only through death to the world that we can be freed from its spirit.

Nothing short of conformity to Christ—a life wholly dedicated to God—should satisfy you.

One of the great reasons that so many Christians never come out of the Old Covenant, never even know that they are in it, and have to come out of it, is that there is so much head knowledge, without the power of the Spirit in the heart being waited for.

The truth is this: Pride must die in you, or nothing of heaven can live in you.

There is but one way of being delivered from this life of self. We must follow Christ, set our hearts upon Him, listen to His teachings, give ourselves up every day, that He may be all to us, and by the power of Christ the denial of self will be a blessed, unceasing reality.

Come and let us flee to Jesus, and hide ourselves in Him until we be clothed upon with His humility.

Abiding in the Vine then comes to be nothing more or less than the restful surrender of the soul to let Christ have all and work all

A dead Christ, I must do everything for; a living Christ does everything for me.

I must have the Holy Spirit sanctifying my whole inner life if I am really to live for God's glory.

How little we understand that we need enough time with God for His light to shine into the depths of our hearts and fill our lives.

Peter utterly changed—the self-pleasing, the self-trusting, the self-seeking Peter, full of sin, continually getting into trouble, foolish and impetuous, now filled with the Spirit and the life of Jesus. Christ had done it for him by the Holy Spirit.

A vessel must be empty if it is to be filled, and if we are to be filled with the life of God we must be utterly empty of self.