Quotes About Transformation

Instead of praying: 'Dear God, bring me someone fabulous,' try: 'Dear God, make me into someone fabulous.'

If we repent, God always recycles our mistakes.

God is able to transform the hostile intentions of wicked people into blessings for His people.

Does the presence of pain mean the absence of God? I try to help people see that God uses pain, that pain is one of the ways God shapes us into the kind of beings He wants us to be for eternity.

See your enemies, not as God's failures, but as God's projects.

How grimy did God get when He reached down to clean you up? How grimy are you willing to get in order to be an 'imitator of God'?

In the land of wild rivers, a calm river becomes either a god or a devil!

Under the storms, sun becomes a god!

God doesn't save us to perpetuate a particular Christian sub-culture. He saves us to advance a supernatural kingdom that is not of this world.

He who reforms, God assists.

God is the process. The process is what I Am... You cannot not use Me... If you use Me with awareness and with intention, all things will change.

Nothing stays the same, nothing remains static. Which way a thing changes depends on you.

God is a refiner, not an arsonist.

In "Drive," there's a heightened male edge. In "Only God Forgives," it was almost crawling back into the womb of the mother. And now with "The Neon Demon," being reborn as a 16-year-old girl.

God ain't finished with any of us yet.

When I write about my childhood I think, oh my God, how did I ever get from there to here? Not that any great thing has happened to me. But I felt so tiny, so lost.

That defining moment at my friend's house, when his uncle looks in my eye and reads me the word of God, I have an awakening.

Prayer is fundamentally a transformation of will, a lifting of the heart and will to God.

The great god Pan is dead.

God can never make us wine if we object to the fingers He uses to crush us with.

The characteristic of the new birth is that I yield myself so completely to God that Christ is formed in me.

If you will receive yourself in the fires of sorrow, God will make you nourishment for other people.

God does not make us holy in the sense of character; He makes us holy in the sense of innocence, and we have to turn that innocence into holy character by a series of moral choices.

God regenerates us and puts us in contact with all his divine resources, but he cannot make us walk according to his will.