Quotes about Transformation

Over the winter glaciers I see the summer glow, And through the wild-piled snow-drift The warm rosebuds below.

From the earth, as a shore, I look out into that silent sea. I seem to partake its rapid transformations; the active enchantment reaches my dust, and I dilate and conspire with the morning wind.

Our strength grows out of our weakness

Heartily know, when half-gods go, the gods arrive.

Someday this upside-down world will be turned right side up. Nothing in all eternity will turn it back again. If we are wise, we will use our brief lives on earth positioning ourselves for the turn.

A Christ-centered church is not a showcase for saints but a hospital for sinners.

Our minds are so much set on Earth that we are unaccustomed to heavenly thinking. So we must work at it.

The kingdom of God . . . does not mean merely the salvation of certain individuals nor even the salvation of a chosen group of people. It means nothing less than the complete renewal of the entire cosmos, culminating in the new heaven and the new earth. Anthony Hoekema

God is the ultimate salvage artist. He loves to restore things to their original condition—and make them even better.

For anyone who knows what it is to weep over sin or loss or pain, Heaven offers a beautiful promise: one day God himself will wipe the tears from our eyes. And even better, one day he will transform those tears into laughter.   The Lamb in the midst of the throne will be their shepherd, and he will guide them to springs of living water, and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes. Revelation 7:17

An unholy world will never be won to Christ by an unholy church.

R. A. Torrey writes, "We will not be disembodied spirits in the world to come, but redeemed spirits, in redeemed bodies, in a redeemed universe.