Quotes about Transformation

Christian nonviolence must be embodied in a community that is an alternative to the world's violence.

It's not unusual to find big political shifts that take place beneath the surface before they're visible above the surface.

Jennings, barely listening to the little girls' chatter, sat amazed at the way life continued. He was not the same person.

Jesus must increase and I must decrease.

Heaven will be full of the songs of worshipers who had once been broken people in a broken world, picked up and used for God's glory.

God, as much as I've needed your power to kill the Enemy, I need your power to fix me. It's not enough that power goes out from me; I need the power of God to work in me.

There is a ripple effect to the gospel that's inevitable. There's a ripple effect to true grace. It doesn't lead us to only sit and contemplate what hap- pened to us. It leads us to proclaim what's happened to us—and what can happen to anybody and everybody on the planet.

If we truly want to change, then we need to understand our dependency on the all-sufficiency of Jesus Christ. Our change is more about trusting and less about trying.

I know a lot of us feel like that. We come to a place where we're walking through the fires and trials of life, and we don't know where to turn. What we need is a fresh start. We need our story to go in a new direction. What we need is a comeback of our own.

Whatever you need to come back from, I want you to hear this: if Jesus is alive from the dead—and he is—and if Jesus has conquered death and hell—and he has—then it's possible for every person to have a comeback story.

God can do great things, work real transformations, but we need to let him take it down to the heart.

We'll never be able to do what God purposes unless we let God take away all the facades and rip off all the layers of gunk surrounding our hearts. We need God's power to start working at the base.