Quotes About Transformation

But if you allow God to translate your adversity into a ministry, then your pain becomes someone else's gain.

How much happier you would be, how much more of you there would be, if the hammer of a higher God could smash your small cosmos. G.K. CHESTERTON

the reason many of us get stuck in the six cages—the cage of responsibility, the cage of routine, the cage of assumptions, the cage of guilt, the cage of failure, and the cage of fear—is for one simple reason: We want God to do something new while we keep doing the same old thing.

Jesus didn't die on the cross to keep us safe. Jesus died to make us dangerous.

1. Do the best you can with what you have where you are. Success is not circumstantial. We usually focus on what we're doing or where we're going, but God's primary concern is who we're becoming in the process. We talk about "doing" the will of God, but the will of God has much more to do with "being

You are one habit away from getting into shape. You are one habit away from financial freedom. You are one habit away from mental health. You are one habit away from a happy, healthy marriage. You are one habit away from any goal you set. The only catch? It has to be a daily habit!

We tend to view the goal as the goal, but in God's economy, the process is the goal. It's not about what we're doing at all; it's about who we're becoming in the process.

Obedience starts with a pierced ear. It's tuning into God's frequency and turning up the volume. It's obeying His whispers, even if a thousand people are screaming something different. 'Tell me to what you pay attention,' said the Spanish philosopher Jose Ortega y Gasset, 'and I will tell you who are you.' You will eventually be shaped in the image of the loudest voice in your life. Genuine listening is ultimately an act of submission.

Cuando ponemos en Cristo nuestra fe, le estamos permitiendo al que cambió la estructura molecular del agua para convertirla en vino que redefina lo que es posible, y lo que no.

One of two things happens over time. Either your theology will conform to your reality, and your expectations will get smaller and smaller until you can hardly believe God for anything. Or your reality will conform to your theology, and your expectations will get bigger and bigger until you can believe God for absolutely everything!

Si quieres que Dios haga algo nuevo, no puedes seguir haciendo siempre lo mismo. Tienes que atreverte a ser diferente, lo que incluye escuchar de manera diferente. De eso se trata aprender estos siete lenguajes de Dios. ¡Que empiece la fiesta!

The ancient wisdom of the masters says that even a mighty oak was once a nut like you.

I discovered that being thankful and experiencing the power and presence of Jesus Christ are tightly entwined. As we practice thankfulness, we experience more of God's transforming grace, God's thereness.

Senior faculty nowadays similarly squirm when former 'dunderheads' return to campus to lecture on their prizewinning screenplay or to cut the ribbon for a building funded by their entrepreneurial acumen. How did such dullards metamorphose into geniuses?

From time to time,' Turner explained, most people seek to discard their customary clothing and status markers and 'don the liberating masks of a liminal masquerade.

I felt the presence of the Holy Spirit had entered us. But after the baptism everything got worse.

Now that Jesus has come and completed his work, he has made all things clean. The rules have changed. Evolved.

A healthy church is a congregation that increasingly reflects God's character as his character has been revealed in his Word.

The truly changed, truly converted, truly Christian heart can say with John Newton, "I am not what I ought to be. I am not what I wish to be. I am not what I hope to be. Yet I can truly say, I am not what I once was. By the grace of God, I am what I am.

May John Newton's prayer for himself be our prayer to God for our churches: "I am not what I ought to be. I am not what I wish to be. I am not what I hope to be. Yet I can truly say, I am not what I once was. By the grace of God I am what I am.

We know that energy cannot be destroyed, but goes shape-shifting through the world. What was once in some portion that star is me now, and later I may be some strong supporting cells in the neck of an August lily, or the glint in the stem of a new-blown piece of glass. If our lot is mutability of form, then why be surprised that our energies might not be refracted and recurrent in the world.

As great poets do, he found a way to transmute the personal wound into something larger.

What is healing, but a shift in perspective?

You aren't what's been done to you but what Jesus has done for you. You aren't what you do but what Jesus has done. What you do doesn't determine who you are. Rather, who you are in Christ determines what you do.