Quotes About Transformation

Time was this place didn't make sense and I could live with it. Either it's changed, or I have.

Everything in the world starts small and then becomes bigger—except bad things. They start big, and then get smaller.

God must bring us to a point--I cannot tell you how it will be, but He will do it--where, through a deep and dark experience, our natural power is touched and fundamentally weakened, so that we no longer dare trust ourselves.

We recognize already that regeneration of the spirit is the paramount need of man.

If you have not experienced the death of self, your spiritual life will have little real progress.

The electric bulb cannot give light without electricity. Likewise, you cannot change yourself if today you are cut off from Christ. If there be any change or difference in you, it is not because you yourself have changed, for all is in Christ. Such is the way of God's salvation.[2]

Many Christians are unaware how drastically the cross must work so that ultimately their natural power for living may be denied.

Because it has been so united with the devil it is vital for man to receive from God a change of mind before he can receive a new heart.

Emotion must go through the cross (Matt. 10.38-39) in order to destroy its fiery nature, with its confusion, and to subject it totally to the spirit. The cross aims to accord the spirit authority to rule over every activity of emotion.

power of the Holy Spirit is superabundant.

Todos los que están en Cristo llegan a ser nuevas criaturas muy pronto. Y esto no se logra por medio de mejoras graduales ni lentos avances. Todas las virtudes están en Cristo. Ellas no llegan a ser una realidad en la persona por medio del automejoramiento o el esfuerzo humano. Si estás en Cristo, ya posees todas estas virtudes.

Every true spiritual experience means that we have discovered a certain fact in Christ and have entered into that. Anything that is not from Him in this way is an experience that is going to evaporate very soon.

is most vital that the Lord breaks us.

Let us not argue over our being labeled as either spiritual or carnal. If we are not governed by the Holy Spirit what profit will the mere designation of spiritual be to us? This is after all a matter of life, not of title.

As we bring our will and thought to God His own will and thought begin to be reproduced in us, and then this becomes our will and thought. This kind of prayer is most valuable and full of weight. Let

Do we think because we have prayed and asked the Holy Spirit to reveal His mind and to work in us, that all shall accordingly be done? That assumption is not the truth; for unless we deliver to death specifically and daily our natural life, together with its power, wisdom, self, and sensation and unless we equally desire honestly in our mind and will to obey and rely upon the Holy Spirit, we shall not see Him actually performing the work.

Unless the believer offers his soul life to death, he shall cultivate that life, incur the displeasure of God, and miss the fruit of the Holy Spirit.

When teachers are fully successful, they are successful beyond any of their conscious intentions about particular subjects: they make converts, they make souls that have been turned around to face a given way of being and moving in the world.

You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life'.

You are what you choose to be today. Not what you've chosen to be before.

Once you believe in yourself and see your soul as divine and precious, you'll automatically be converted to a being who can create miracles.

When you squeeze an orange, you'll always get orange juice to come out. What comes out is what's inside. The same logic applies to you: when someone squeezes you, puts pressure on you, or says something unflattering or critical, and out of you comes anger, hatred, bitterness, tension, depression, or anxiety, that is what's inside. If love and joy are what you want to give and receive, change your life by changing what's inside.

An infinity of forest lies dormant within the dreams on one acorn.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. — George Bernard Shaw