Quotes About Transformation

The transformed man loves when others hate. He is just when others are prejudiced. He is understanding when others misunderstand, and he is poised when others are frantic.

What does repentance mean? It means to change—to change your mind, change the way that you're living—and to determine that with God's help you will live for Christ.

A transformed life is the greatest of all miracles. Every time a person is "born again" by repentance of sin and faith in Jesus Christ, the miracle of regeneration is performed.

By [Christ's] resurrection life, He gives us the power over the tendency to sin as we allow Him to control our lives.

Can we overcome our anger, instead of constantly being overcome by it? Yes—with God's help. Peter's anger was channeled into boldness for Christ. Paul's anger against Christians was replaced with a burning passion to spread the Gospel. Is this your goal?

Faith implies four things: self-renunciation, reliance with utter confidence on Christ, obedience, and a changed life.

God] has in mind a picture of what He intends to create. He breaks, cracks, chisels, and polishes until one day there emerges His vision . . . God has not yet finished with us.

God takes the weak and makes them strong. He takes the vile and makes them clean. He takes the worthless and makes them worthwhile. He takes the sinful and makes them sinless.

As a young man] I sought thrills! I found them in Christ. I looked for something that would bring perfect joy! I found it in Christ. I looked for something that would bring pleasure and that would satisfy the deepest longing of my heart! I found it in Christ. And my life has never been the same.

To live the life of God we must have the nature of God.

Prayer doesn't always change our situation, but prayer will always change us!

A life touched by the Holy Spirit will tolerate sin no longer.

La Biblia enseña que creer en Él transforma la persona. «Si alguno ama al mundo», dice la Biblia, «el amor del Padre no está en él. Porque todo lo que hay en el mundo, los deseos de la carne, los deseos de los ojos, y la vanagloria de la vida, no provienen del Padre, sino del mundo» (1 Juan 2.15–16).

When Christ's love fills our hearts, it puts selfishness on the run.

Energy out of control is dangerous; energy under control is powerful . . .Science takes a Niagara River with its violent turbulence and transforms it into electrical energy to illuminate a million homes and to turn the productive wheels of industry. [God] does in the spiritual realm what science does in the physical realm.

There are] seven gifts God gives you when you commit your life to Christ: a new relationship, a new citizenship, a new family, a new purpose, a new power, a new destiny, and a new journey.

Our Father and our God, purge my heart and mind with the truth of Your Word. Find the unfruitful parts and eliminate them from my life. Prune my attitudes and my actions, Lord, until they are healthy and wholly in service to You. Give me the heart of my Savior Jesus Christ, through whom I pray. Amen.

God requires something of us. We must confess our spiritual poverty, renounce our sins, and turn by faith to His Son, Jesus Christ. When we do that, we are born again. He gives us a new nature. He puts a little bit of heaven down in our souls.

Christ . . . didn't come to treat symptoms. He came to get at the very heart of man's disease.

There may have been a time when pride was the very center of your life. You had ambitious thoughts of yourself, your powers, desires, and aims; but now that will begin to change . . . you have been born again.

Think about the holes children make when they dig in the sand on the seashore. When the waves come in, the holes are swallowed up by the ocean. Similarly, when we know Christ, our physical death is overwhelmed by the love and grace of God. Death is swallowed up in the victory of Christ.

Christianity has become so respectable and so conventional that it is now insipid. The salt has lost its flavor.

Let [Christ] transform your life so that you will have a glow on your face, a spring in your step, and joy in your soul.

It is a source of encouragement that many homosexuals report being transformed through the power of the Gospel.