Quotes About Transformation

We aren't only called to become Christians; we are also called to be Christians.

In your own mind-darkened, will-paralyzed, conscience-dulled soul, God can make the light penetrate and turn the darkness of your own life into day, if you will let Him.

God prescribes the remedy for the ills of the human race. That remedy is personal faith and commitment to Jesus Christ. The remedy is to be born again.

By faith I accepted Him for what He claimed to be, the Son of the Living God. That simple decision changed my life—and I have seen it change the lives of countless others across the world.

When my decision for Christ was made . . . I knelt in prayer. I opened my heart and knew for the first time the sweetness and joy of God, of truly being born again . . .I knew in my heart that I was somehow different and changed. That night absolutely changed the direction of my life.

Whether prayer changes our situation or not, one thing is certain: Prayer will change us!

Deep down inside I knew something was different . . . I wanted to tell others what had happened to me. I didn't have any tears, I didn't have any emotion, I didn't hear any thunder, there was no lightning . . . but . . . I made my decision for Christ.

BORN TO CRAWL, REBORN TO FLY

In Houston, Texas, a man was born again in one of our meetings. He owned a liquor store. The next morning he had a sign on the front of his door saying, "Out of business.

From a cleansed conscience emerges a changed life.

Many a life has come forth from the furnace of affliction more beautiful and more useful than before.

The world does need changing, society needs changing, the nation needs changing, but we never will change it until we ourselves are changed.

Pentecost was the day of power of the Holy Spirit. It was the day the Christian church was born.

True conversion will involve the mind, the affection, and the will. There have been thousands of people who have been intellectually converted to Christ . . .but they have never been really converted to Him.

God can take anything that happens to us—even bad things—and use it to shape us and make us into a better, more Christlike person—if we will let Him.

I could recall countless illustrations of men and women who have encountered Jesus Christ . . .Their whole lives have been transformed.

There are three of you. There is the person you think you are. There is the person others think you are. There is the person God knows you are and can be through Christ.

The converted person will love the good he once hated, and hate the sin he once loved.

Ask God to reveal hypocrisy in your life—an inconsistency between what you profess and what you practice. Then ask God to bring you so close to Christ that you won't have any desire to live an inconsistent, deceitful life.

I believe this is one of the tests of the Spirit-filled life. Is Christ becoming more and more evident in my life? Are people seeing more of Him, and less of me?

There are thousands of people who have had some form of emotional experience that they refer to as conversion but who have never been truly converted to Christ. Christ demands a change in the way you live—and if your life does not conform to your experience, then you have every reason to doubt your experience!

A born-again Christian should no more think of going back to the old life than an adult to his childhood.

A baby isn't meant to stay a baby forever, and neither is a new Christian.

The goal of a child's life is maturity—and the goal of a Christian's life is spiritual maturity.