Quotes about Transformation

What do we find God 'doing about' this business of sin and evil?...God did not abolish the fact of evil; He transformed it. He did not stop the Crucifixion; He rose from the dead.

It was at this point that Lord Peter was apotheosed from the state of Quite Decent Uncle to that of Glorified Uncle.

I do genuinely believe that the political system is not linear. When it reaches a tipping point fashioned by a critical mass of opinion, the slow pace of change we're used to will no longer be the norm. I see a lot of signs every day that we're moving closer and closer to that tipping point.

In a very real and sobering way, we must actually become the gospel to the people around us—an expression of the real Jesus through the quality of our lives.

It is only when the people of God as a whole are activated in a movement that real world transformation takes place.

The church (the ecclesia), when true to its real calling, when it is on about what God is on about, is by far and away the most potent force for transformational change the world has ever seen.

Before we can pray, "Lord, Thy Kingdom come," we must be willing to pray, "My Kingdom go.

When GOD wants to do an impossible task He takes an impossible man and crushes him.

Let a man be right with God, reconciled through the blood of the cross, humbled at the foot of Calvary; let him be broken, coming to God guilty and hopeless and needy; and at that moment God takes hold of him and transforms and uses all his gifts and qualities, until that man becomes a mighty influence. But he has first to come down from his ladder of pride to the very foot of the cross.

It takes but a moment to make a convert; it takes a lifetime to manufacture a saint.

The conversion of a soul is the miracle of a moment, but the manufacture of a saint is the task of a lifetime.

God doesn't want new methods; He wants new men.