Quotes About Transformation

We can go to Bible study and amen every point made, but if we don't apply it to our lives, we won't be changed.

Anything that infuses us with humility is good. Even if it feels a bit like humiliation in the moment, the workings of humility within are a gift.

Numb souls are never growing souls.

Pain is the sensation that indicates a transformation is needed.

God isn't ever going to forsake you, but He will go to great lengths to remake you.

If our souls never ached with disappointments and disillusionments, we'd never fully admit and submit to our need for God. If we weren't ever shattered we'd never know the glorious touch of the Potter making something glorious out of dust, out of us.

Don't we get into God's Word so it can get into us? So that it can interrupt us, change us, satisfy us? How sad to simply settle for learning facts about the Bible when it was meant for so much more

I used my cravings for food as a prompting to pray. It was my way of tearing down the tower of impossibility before me and building something new. My tower of impossibility was food. Brick by brick, I imagined myself dismantling the food tower and using those same bricks to build a walkway of prayer, paving the way to victory.

God is who He says He is, and He will do what He says He will do. But to partner with Him in His work of transformation in our lives, we must seek Him with all our hearts. It's our choice whether we stay stuck in our hurt or get renewed in our hearts.

People can't fix from the outside a perspective that needs to be rewired on the inside. Only the Lord can do that.

If things are ever going to get better, we have to acknowledge our underbellies that fuel our unglued reactions.

Through relationship with God, man is finally capable of doing that which he was incapable of doing on his own. That's what walking in the Spirit is all about.

We must spend time with God, letting His truths become part of who we are and how we live.

time: It is beautiful when the Master chisels.

God, inconvenience me … so that I might constantly be reminded to draw near to You. Interrupt me, Lord. Shake things up in me, Lord. Reveal what's in me that's not of You, Lord. O Lord, more than anything, I want more of You.

Experiencing life change is not a matter of chance, it's a matter of choice, choosing God's ways instead of your own.

The disciples were surely inspired by Jesus' miracle. And they were certainly informed by His teaching. But because they had not personally applied what they learned, they weren't transformed.

Breaking up the unplowed ground of your heart will make it ready for new life, new growth, new maturity in you.

Those who cooperate most fully with forgiveness are those who dance most freely in the beauty of redemption.

I'm not gentle by nature, but I can be gentle by obedience. I'm not patient by nature, but I can be patient by obedience. I'm not peaceful by nature, but I can be peaceful by obedience.

Standing underneath those broken boards helped me to see why. I couldn't keep my old broken beliefs, nail a little Jesus truth to the side, and expect stability.

Struggling with my weight isn't God's mean curse on me. Being overweight is an outside indication that internal changes are needed for my body to function properly and for me to feel well.

The numbers hadn't changed yet, but my heart had.

Access without application will not equal transformation.