Quotes about Transformation

Cast away from yourselves all the transgressions you have committed, and fashion for yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. Why should you die, O house of Israel?

Set the empty pot on its coals until it becomes hot and its copper glows. Then its impurity will melt within; its rust will be consumed.

Then I will let her waters settle and will make her rivers flow like oil,’ declares the Lord GOD.

Say to them: ‘As surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that the wicked should turn from their ways and live. Turn! Turn from your evil ways! For why should you die, O house of Israel?’

But if I tell the wicked man, ‘You will surely die,’ and he turns from his sin and does what is just and right—

But if a wicked man turns from his wickedness and does what is just and right, he will live because of this.

For behold, I am on your side; I will turn toward you, and you will be tilled and sown.

therefore you will no longer devour men or deprive your nation of its children, declares the Lord GOD.

I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will remove your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.

This is what the Lord GOD says: On the day I cleanse you from all your iniquities, I will cause the cities to be resettled and the ruins to be rebuilt.

The desolate land will be cultivated instead of lying desolate in the sight of all who pass through.

Then they will say, ‘This land that was desolate has become like the garden of Eden. The cities that were once ruined, desolate, and destroyed are now fortified and inhabited.’