Quotes About Transformation

God specializes in giving people a fresh start.

Beware of harking back to what you once were when God wants you to be something you have never been.

God... Please keep my eyes focused on the only target worth hitting - Christlikeness!

God is more interested in developing your character than keeping you comfortable.

Give Him your mess and let it become your message.

I am God's wheat and shall be ground by their teeth so that I may become Christ's pure bread.

Whenever God restores something, He restores it to a place greater than it was before.

Sanctification means being made one with Jesus so that the disposition that ruled Him will rule us. It will cost everything that is not of God in us.

I want to change my circumstances. God wants to change me.

The great and merciful surprise is that we come to God, not by doing it right, but by doing it wrong.

Be assured that God does more in us than we for Him; and that what we do is only for Him in proportion as it is He Himself who works it in us.

At Calvary, there was a great healing transfer where the responsibility for healing was switched from God giving it, to you receiving it.

Jesus came to establish the kingdom of God as a radical alternative to all versions of the kingdom of the world, whether they declare themselves to be "under God" or not.

If you are under the dominion of sin, you are yet an utter stranger to the salvation of God.

It is God's objective to make your condition line up with your position.

Faith in action is love, and love in action is service. By transforming that faith into living acts of love, we put ourselves in contact with God Himself, with Jesus our Lord.

Sanctification is not my idea of what I want God to do for me; sanctification is God's idea of what He wants to do for me.

There may be some incorrigible human beings who cannot be changed except by God's own mercy to that one person.

God made saints out of far worse people than you.

...nothing good can proceed from our will until it be formed again, and that after it is formed again in so far as it is good, it is of God, and not of us.

even God could do nothing for someone already full. You have to be completely empty to let Him in to do what He will.

Sometimes God calls a person to unbelief in order that faith may take new forms.

We are not saved in order to be a blessing to other people--you will be that inevitably--but primarily we are saved in order to be conformed to the likeness of Jesus Christ, God's Son.

We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.