Quotes about Transformation

Eve's daughters are as flowers and none can ever say they are through unfolding. And what man can predict the consummate end of such a life when its ultimate center is Sharon's Rose?

It is a merciful Father who strips us when we need to be stripped, as the tree needs to be stripped of its blossoms. He is not finished with us yet, whatever the loss we suffer, for as we loose our hold on visible things, the invisible become more precious—where our treasure is, there will our hearts be.

It is nothing short of a transformed vision of reality that is able to see Christ as more real than the storm, love more real than hatred, meakness more real than pride, long-suffering more real than annoyance, holiness more real than sin. - Discipline

He has promised that our suffering will one day turn into glory if we'll respond to it in faith and obedience.

Many deaths must go into us reaching that measure, many letting go's.

But I can say that I know the One who knows. And I've come to see that it's through the deepest suffering that God has taught me the deepest lessons. And if we'll trust Him for it, we can come through to the unshakable assurance that He's in charge. He has a loving purpose. And He can transform something terrible into something wonderful. Suffering is never for nothing.

God is in the business of making us walking, breathing examples of the invisible reality of the presence of Christ in us.

Allow God to use the difficulties and disappointments in life as polish to transform your faith into a glistening diamond that takes in and reflects His love.

Let every hindrance to joy become the soil out of which joy blossoms.

Live to seek to draw close to God in all ways and seek His transforming love.

Pray for God's grace to nurture on the inside what He calls us to live out on the outside.

The more time you spend with God, the more you will resemble Him.