Quotes About Transformation

Conventional names define a person's past: ancestry, ethnicity, nationality, religion. I am not who I was ten years ago and certainly not who I will be in twenty years

None more deceive themselves than they who think their religion is true and genuine, thought it refines not their spirits and reforms not their lives.

When it comes to religion today, we tend to be long on butterflies and short on cocoons. Somehow we're going to have to relearn that the deep things of God don't come suddenly.

We may be sure that out of the ruins of our capitalist civilization a new religion will emerge, just as Christianity emerged from the ruins of the Roman civilization.

We need a new religion.

God wants to produce the character of Christ in our lives because he knows that the more we become like him, the more fulfilled we will be.

Have you ever stopped to think that Christianity is the only religion in which the first step is to say, "I'm wrong?"

Now, with God's help, I shall become myself.

If we are to be ready for Jesus Christ, we have to stop being religious (that is, using religion as a higher kind of culture) and be spiritually real.

Religion is not like a house or a cloak which can be changed at will.

Since the Enlightenment, popular religion has rejected the Enlightenment path and transformed itself into a bastion of resistance against reason.

When you're trying to free yourself from a religion that has been ingrained in you since childhood, it's more like ripping out your veins and tendons.

France is revolutionary or she is nothing at all. The revolution of1789 is her political religion.

Missionaries are perfect nuisances and leave every place worse than they found it.

They must be slain by the Law before they can be made alive by the gospel.

If your religion does not change you, then you had better change your religion.

Religion brought forth riches, and the daughter devoured the mother.

The old harlot, German philosophy, has finally turned into a church lady.

Most people we observe who practice self-discovery just get caught up in a new description, a new "ism", a new religion, a new god. But nothing changes.

Religion converts despair which destroys into resignation which submits.

Transformation, on the other hand, is creating beauty from horror or destruction (or, for beginners, an actually pleasant evening with the usual family problems).

People can change their external lives with religion, but a lasting internal change only happens through a daily relationship with Jesus.

Never be afraid of the PROCESS that will take you to the PROMISE

When I look at the Church today, not just in Africa but worldwide, it seems to me that we have come to love darkness even if we are called Church or some other religious names.