Quotes about Transformation

Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

As obedient children, do not conform to the passions of your former ignorance.

Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation,

Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.

And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as Christ is pure.

No one who remains in Him keeps on sinning. No one who continues to sin has seen Him or known Him.

We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love our brothers. The one who does not love remains in death.

Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and earth had passed away, and the sea was no more.

And the One seated on the throne said, “Behold, I make all things new.” Then He said, “Write this down, for these words are faithful and true.”

It is hard to say what the future holds, but this is probable - it won't be just like the past.

Because I am not yet living up to what Jesus expects me to be in those red letters in the Bible, I always define myself as somebody who is saved by God's grace and is on his way to becoming a Christian. (...) Being saved is trusting in what Christ did for us, but being Christian is dependent on the way we respond to what he did for us.

Carter once told me that we shouldn't fear putting the past behind us. He said that God is about doing new things—creating beauty out of the ashes of despair and defeat.