Quotes About Transformation

The circumstances we ask God to CHANGE are often the circumstances God is using to CHANGE US.

Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.

To get where you want to go, you first have to become who God wants you to be.

I have the ability to create and be in touch with God. I can't change bread and wine into body and blood, but I can take the scum or the slime of the earth and make it into a man or woman.

If you give it to God, He transforms your test into a testimony, your mess into a message, and your misery into a ministry.

The victorious Christian neither exalts nor downgrades himself. His interests have shifted from self to Christ.

Be grateful for the wound that pushes you towards God.

When God works in us, the will, being changed and sweetly breathed upon by the Spirit of God, desires and acts, not from compulsion, but responsively.

God's grace is so powerful that it has the capacity to overcome our natural resistance to it.

How much would our churches be transformed if each of us made it a practice to thank God for others and then to tell those others what it is about them that we thank God for?

Keep a space where God can let something totally new take place.

To be the people of God without regeneration, is as impossible as to be the children of men without generation.

Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, "shake well before using." That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.

Before there can be fullness there must be emptiness. Before God can fill us with Himself we must first be emptied of ourselves.

The purposes of God point to one simple end-that we should be as he is, think the same thoughts, mean the same things, possess the same blessedness.

God creates each soul differently, so that when all the mud is finally cleared away, His light will shine through it in a beautiful, colorful, totally new pattern.

God is a specialist at making something useful and beautiful out of something broken and confused.

Before creation, God did just pure mathematics. Then He thought it would be a pleasant change to do some applied.

God can take your most monstrous failures and turn them into triumphs such as you never could imagine.

It is not so much great talents that God blesses, as great likeness to Christ.

God does not change us in order to love us. He loves us in order to change us.

God can never entrust His Kingdom to anyone who has not been broken of pride, for pride is the armour of darkness itself.

God uses rescued people to rescue people.

God never fits His word to suit me; He fits me to suit His word.