Quotes About Transformation

Prayer is not a matter of changing things externally, but one of working miracles in a person's inner nature.

True surrender is a matter of being "united together [with Jesus] in the likeness of His death" (Romans 6:5) until nothing ever appeals to you that did not appeal to Him.

It is not the baptism of the Holy Spirit that changes people, but the power of the ascended Christ coming into their lives through the Holy Spirit.

Forgiveness doesn't merely mean that I am saved from hell and have been made ready for heaven (no one would accept forgiveness on that level). Forgiveness means that I am forgiven into a newly created relationship which identifies me with God in Christ. The miracle of redemption is that God turns me, the unholy one, into the standard of Himself, the Holy One. He does this by putting into me a new nature, the nature of Jesus Christ.

if sin rules in me, God's life in me will be killed; if God rules in me, sin in me will be killed.

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.

Jesus doesn't bring anything up from the wells of human nature--He brings them down from above.

God has only one intended destiny for mankind—holiness. His only goal is to produce saints.

The one thing that matters is whether a man will accept the God Who will make him holy. At all costs a man must be rightly related to God.

You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.

True intercession involves bringing the person, or the circumstance that seems to be crashing in on you, before God, until you are changed by His attitude toward that person or circumstance. People describe intercession by saying, "It is putting yourself in someone else's place." That is not true! Intercession is putting yourself in God's place; it is having His mind and His perspective.

Suddenly all those individuals who yesterday felt that "we" meant only their families, their professions, or perhaps their communities, become men of the nation. Their emotions and thoughts, their egos, that "something" within them, all are transformed: they have become historical.

Every action alters the soul of the doer.

It is the same creative will-to-life that was brilliantly and theatrically formulated by Nietzsche in 'Zarathustra'; that led the Hegelian Marx to an economic and the Malthusian Darwin to a biological hypothesis which, together, have subtly transformed the world-outlook of the Western megalopolis.

Chasseguet-Smirgel and Grunberger (1986) have described how psychoanalytic thinking and understanding can be transformed into an ideology or political program containing messianic and/or paranoid characteristics that are in dramatic contrast to the very nature of psychoanalytic insight.

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

We have found that when we give up self-will regarding food and completely turn our lives over to our Higher Power, we receive all kinds of guidance.

God is doing for me what I could not do for myself. It is all an incomparably beautiful mystery.

The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses.

Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.

Now there are fields of corn where Troy once was.

I am Actaeon: recognize your master!

Saepe creat molles aspera spina rosas" - "Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses

Nothing in the entire universe ever perishes, believe me, but things vary, and adopt a new form. The phrase "being born" is used for beginning to be something different from what one was before, while "dying" means ceasing to be the same. Though this thing may pass into that, and that into this, yet the sums of things remains unchanged.