Quotes About Transformation

Any revelation from God's Word that does not lead us to an encounter with God only serves to make us more religious. The Church cannot afford "form without power," for it creates Christians without purpose.

Renewing the mind becomes possible when we remember, record, review, and remind ourselves and God of what He has done in the past, and of our obedience. It is a sure way to solidify your identity in Him, and to mold your mind so it conforms to the mind of Christ.

But if you don't change the way you think, you'll never be able to apprehend the Kingdom power that is available.

Most Christians repent enough to get forgiven, but not enough to see the Kingdom.

Having a renewed mind is often not an issue of whether or not someone is going to heaven, but of how much of heaven he or she wants in his or her life right now.

I'm up late again - It's almost 6 am. I'm trying to imagine some better answers, to break the spell and free them from the stone.

I am still a consumer; the consumer world was the world I emerged into, whose air I breathed for a very long time, and its assumptions still dominate my psyche—but maybe a little less each year....There are times when I can feel the spell breaking in my mind….There are times when I can almost feel myself simply being.

God desires to reveal His heart to us and to build His heart into us as we seek His face.

Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.

People only talk about what a joyous experience it is, but there is terror: Your life, as you know it, is over. It's over the day that child is born. It's over, and something completely new starts.

in prison he regained his old self and displayed an alertness, intelligence, and quick-wittedness such as he had not shown since the early days of the Third Reich.

Lincoln never fought in battle nor fired a single round at the enemy, but Blackhawk's War is the making of him.

change fear into faith, hate into love, egoism into humility, anxiety and worry into serenity, complacency into action, denial into acceptance, jealousy into trust, fantasy into reality, selfishness into service, resentment into forgiveness, judgmentalism into tolerance, despair into hope, self-hate into self-respect, and loneliness into fellowship.

The principles of Twelve Step recovery are the opposite of our character defects.

believe we get active with Step Six when we get sick and tired of being sick—sick and tired of the character defects of which alcoholism is a symptom, sick and tired of their effect, not on our past, but on our present lives.

Imagination may be the most essential, uniquely human capacity - creating both the dead-end crises of our time and the doorway through them.

What we need now are new stories to share with each other, new tales to live into the world, which is to say, stories to make real by living our own versions of them.

Turn fear into focus.

Almost overnight, the Internet's gone from a technical wonder to a business must.

A Doc-Pistol alliance would have pushed YouTube to another level, transformed Maravich's career, caused Brent Musburger to ejaculate on live TV

What we discovered was that the only thing wrong with poor people is they don't have any money, which happens to be a curable condition.

I found out that fear ends, and that when you emerge from the other side, you're not a courageous person. You're just unafraid.

people don't ever get fixed. They either mature, or they just keep getting more bent up the rest of their lives.

Muscles come and go; flab lasts.