Quotes about Transformation

Lord, I give to You the way I feel about Karel, my thoughts about our future—oh, You know! Everything! Give me Your way of seeing Karel instead. Help me to love him that way. That much.

Whenever we cannot love in the old, human way, Corrie, God can give us the perfect way.

The truth blazed like sunlight in the shadows of Barracks 28. The real sin I had been committing was not that of inching toward the center of a platoon because I was cold. The real sin lay in thinking that any power to help and transform came from me. Of course it was not my wholeness, but Christ's that made the difference.

and uncared for. Nor could I see the necessity for the complete undressing:

Jesus can turn loss into glory.

When something goes wrong, what's the best course of action? To change your direction. The word repentance means to stop going one direction (your own way) and turn toward the right direction (God's way). Your past may be a part of who you are, but it certainly doesn't have to define your future. Or if you feel stuck and unable to change directions and move toward God, think of this transformation another way. The Bible says that God is the Potter and we are his clay (Jer. 18:2-6).

Grace. Changes. Everything. We don't bring anything. Jesus brings everything.

We're not changed by the promises we make to God; we're changed by believing the promises God makes to us.

We may claim to believe in God, but we don't want to believe so much that it makes us different.

Let God create in you His masterpiece. He will make you truly different and joyfully weird.

What if rather than avoiding brokenness we embraced it? Welcomed it? And even prayed for it? "God, break me.

A. W. Tozer, who said, "It is doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly until he has hurt him deeply.