Quotes About Transformation

No, I don't like the travail of pain or loss anymore than you do, but in my suffering, a miraculous thing happened: Mr. Hardship became a tool of my Savior to produce very good things in me, things that I am sure could not have been produced any other way.

if you are God's child, the life force that energizes your thoughts, desires, words, and actions is no longer you; it's Christ!

God didn't just forgive you. No, he has come to live inside of you so you will have the power to desire and do what he calls you to do.

Because accepting blame is not natural, it takes rescuing, transforming grace to produce a humble, willing, broken, self-examining, help-seeking heart. Only divine grace can soften a person's heart. Only grace can help your eyes to see what you need to see. Only grace can decimate your defenses and lead you to confess. Only grace can cause you to quit pointing your finger and to run to your Redeemer for his forgiveness and delivering power.

God is working right now, but not so much to give us predictable, comfortable, and pleasurable lives. He isn't so much working to transform our circumstances as he is working through hard circumstances to transform you and me.

The cross teaches that you are not stuck, not cursed to pay forever for your past.

Grace is only ever attractive to sinners.

Si no reconoces tu pecado, no valorarás la gracia. Si no valoras la gracia, no buscarás el perdón y el rescate que esta provee.

We were created to be part of something so big, so glorious, so far beyond the ordinary that it would totally change the way we approach every ordinary thing in our lives.

If you find more joy in serving God than yourself, you know that grace has entered your door, because only grace has the power to rescue you from you.

Consideración. ¿Qué quiere Dios que la persona vea? Confesión. ¿Qué quiere Dios que la persona reconozca y confiese? Compromiso. ¿A qué nuevas formas de vida está llamando Dios a esta persona? Cambio. ¿Cómo deben aplicarse estos nuevos compromisos a la vida diaria?

Biblical literacy and theological expertise are not, therefore, the end of the Word but a God-ordained means to an end, and the end is a radically transformed life because the worship at the center of that life has been reclaimed.

Wasn't this rugged business of taking your life apart, looking at all of it and admitting and remembering and reminding yourself of all the bad - wasn't the big result of it your getting to be honest? "Exactly that," said Ferguson.

Ik of hij, vanop een afstand ben ik hij, teruglopend word ik ik.

Als je Proust gelezen hebt, is je leven veranderd.

Da ward sie zu einer Kuh; er aber ward zu einem Stier und begattete sich mit derselben. Daraus entstand das Rindvieh.

Believe me, Athelstan, you can wrap a dog's turd in a cloth of gold but it remains a dog's turd.

Caroline's beloved Brocket Hall has been transformed by a Hong Kong developer into a hotel and conference center. There are rumoured sightings of her ghost in the hotel, at which, of course, one scoffs. Yet, walking the road from the train stop in Welwyn to the Hertfordshire Records Office one gray January morning, I still find it hard to believe she is entirely gone.

Health of the body is an expression of bliss of the mind and the transformations that it guides. The truly healthy person experiences bliss in mind, bliss through the senses, and bliss in the body.

History is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent footnotes.

By love alone is hatred dispelled." Jesus would add: a love that must be ready to die rather than hate. Out of such love, and out of such death that this love can require, will hatred be dispelled. Hearts will be changed. And so will our world.

Salvation, therefore, is not a transaction that takes place outside us, but rather an empowering awareness that explodes within and then pervades our entire being.

for Jesus the Spirit-filled prophet, the focus of his life and relationships was the Reign of God. That meant that he was not—as his followers have often been—church-centered. His primary concern was not to increase membership of his own movement or community. Rather, it was to transform people's hearts so as to transform their society.

The person I am with a seventy-year-old body (and all its accumulated experience) will not only look but will truly be different from the person I was with an eighteen-year-old body. Same person but – thank God – so different!