Quotes About Transformation

God is the ultimate salvage artist. He loves to restore things to their original condition—and make them even better.

For anyone who knows what it is to weep over sin or loss or pain, Heaven offers a beautiful promise: one day God himself will wipe the tears from our eyes. And even better, one day he will transform those tears into laughter.   The Lamb in the midst of the throne will be their shepherd, and he will guide them to springs of living water, and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes. Revelation 7:17

R. A. Torrey writes, "We will not be disembodied spirits in the world to come, but redeemed spirits, in redeemed bodies, in a redeemed universe.

Christ's resurrection is the forerunner of our own, and our resurrection is the forerunner of the earth's.

God isn't just preparing a place for us. He is preparing us for that place.

Flowers grow beneath her feet, but she is not dead at all. The years have not diminished the Rice Mother. I see her, fierce and magical. Stop despairing and call to her, and you will see, she will come bearing a rainbow of dreams.

Now you're here and everything's changing Suddenly life means so much I can't wait to wake up tomorrow And find out this promise is true I will never have to go back to The day before you

So where does one begin? With self-crucifixion. In effect, we go to our own funeral and bury the self-will so that God's will can reign supremely in our hearts. Our will has no power to do God's will until it first dies to its own desires and the Holy Spirit brings a fresh power within.

When God brings us to salvation, the most remarkable thing we see is that he transforms our hungers. He changes not just what we do but what we want to do. This is the work of the Holy Spirit within us — "for it is God who works in you to will and to act according to his good purpose" (Philippians 2:13).

The radically changed behavior of the disciples after the resurrection is the best evidence of the resurrection," declares Thomas C. Oden of Drew University. "Some hypothesis is necessary to make plausible the transformation of the disciples from grieving followers of a crucified messiah to those whose resurrection preaching turned the world upside down. That change could not have happened, according to the church's testimony, without the risen Lord.

The tragedy with growing up is not that we lose childishness in its simplicity, but that we lose childlikeness in its sublimity.

Herein lies the cardinal difference between the moralizing religions and Jesus' offer to us: Jesus does not offer to make bad people good but to make dead people alive.

Dar pentru creÈ™tin, la moarte orice dorin?? care înainte era limitat? la carne va fi împlinit? în duh. Atingerea dup? care a tânjit în exterior va fi atunci interioar?. CredinÈ›a care înainte privea spre viitor va g?si atunci eternitatea.

În mijlocul schimb?rii È™i al transform?rii, ne d?m seama c? pe m?sur? ce înaint?m în vârst?, avem mai mult? nevoie de cineva mai mare decât noi care s? ne redea ceea ce am pierdut.

When I returned to India for the first time after years of being gone, I wondered why I remembered those small rooms as being quite large. Was it because I didn't know any better? When Charles Dickens returned to his hometown and remarked that his city had changed, someone responded that it had not changed nearly as much as he had.

We became less than what we were meant to be.

Long my imprisoned spirit lay Fast bound in sin and nature's night. Thine eye diffused a quickening ray; I woke — the dungeon flamed with light! My chains fell off, my heart was free, I rose, went forth, and followed thee.

Dios no muestra su obra en términos abstractos, prefiere lo concreto, y esto significa que, al final de tu vida, a tu corazón le sucederá una de tres cosas: se volverá duro, roto, o tierno.

Christ in you," said the apostle Paul, is "the hope of glory" (Col. 1:27).

Dios, el gran Tejedor, busca a las personas de corazón tierno para dejar su sello en ellas. Tus penas y desilusiones son parte de ese diseño, pues darán forma a tu corazón y a la manera en que sientes la realidad. Tus penas siempre te formarán; no hay otra manera.

All of this is a reassuring reminder that in spite of our mistakes and failures, our heavenly Father is still able to bring something lasting and beautiful from our lives.

Jesus worked by changing the heart, not by legislating. Legislation can only force compliance. It can never produce the love necessary to change an attitude. Jesus

Jesus does not offer to make bad people good but to make dead people alive. Worldviews

When God puts a broken life back together, He removes the scars because He builds from the inside out. And when God steadies a faltering life, He puts you on His footing.