Quotes about Transformation
Our proper order for bearing His presence is found in the recesses of the heart. It is within the heart we must prepare, for God is about to reveal His glory on earth like it has never been seen before.
— John Bevere
We cannot discern what is truly good for our lives without first having our minds renewed.
— John Bevere
Fix your attention on God. You'll be changed from the inside out.
— John Bevere
If we proclaim a gospel that doesn't emphasize transformation, we end up with a deficit of clean containers, which consequently creates a shortage of God's manifest presence on the earth.
— John Bevere
Grace enables and empowers us to live a life of holiness and obedience to the authority of God.
— John Bevere
What good is it to acknowledge Jesus Christ when there is no change of heart and therefore no change in action?
— John Bevere
Those who truly believe will exhibit a changed nature and no longer produce the fruit of an evil one.
— John Bevere
A work of grace in the soul makes itself known either to the one who has it or to onlookers.
— John Bunyan
Admittance into the true church of Christ is based on regeneration, not merely on an affirmation of a creed or doctrine.
— John Bunyan
My name at the first was Graceless.
— John Bunyan
Thus I continued about a year; all which time our neighbours did take me to be a very godly man, a new and religious man, and did marvel much to see such a great and famous alteration in my life and manners; and indeed so it was, though yet I knew not Christ, nor grace, nor faith, nor hope; for, as I have well seen since, had I then died, my state had been most fearful.
— John Bunyan
presently I found two things within me, at which I did sometimes marvel (especially considering what a blind, ignorant, sordid and ungodly wretch but just before I was). The one was a very great softness and tenderness of heart, which caused me to fall under the conviction of what by scripture they asserted, and the other was a great bending in my mind, to a continual meditating on it, and on all other good things, which at any time I heard or read of.
— John Bunyan