Quotes about Transformation

Do not be conformed to this world (this age), [fashioned after and adapted to its external, superficial customs], but be transformed (changed) by the [entire] renewal of your mind [by its new ideals and its new attitude], so that you may prove [for yourselves] what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God, even the thing which is good and acceptable and perfect [in His sight for you].

You are never going to enjoy the promise of the new life (see Rom. 4:16) Jesus died to give you until you change the way you think. It's not about what you can do—it's about what Jesus has done for you.

Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of." Bruce Barton said, "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.

Right believing leads to right living! Right believing leads to a life of peace, joy, and fulfillment!

I'm not where I need to be, but Thank God I'm not where I use to be. I'm okay and I'm on my way!

But our God is an expert at removing worthless things out of us while retaining the valuable.

Our lives improve only when we take chances -- and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

Prayer is a refusal to settle for what is.

When a god is fashioned into a golden commodity (or even lesser material); divine subject becomes divine object, and agent becomes commodity.

The key insight is that honest talk transforms and emancipates when it is received in faithful seriousness.

It is the silence-breaking cry that begins the process that turns pain into joy.

The news enacted by Elisha is reperformed by Jesus. It is, subsequently, performed in many other venues, sometimes by the followers of Jesus, sometimes by others who stand alongside the faithful followers of Jesus. In every such performance of the news, it is Gospel truth enacted as practical transformation that settled power can neither enact nor prevent.