Quotes About Transformation

She thought she had been saved by his love for her, and in part she had been. It had cleansed her, never casting blame. But that had been only the beginning. It was loving him in return that had brought her up out of the darkness.

Sometimes God has to destroy in order to save. He has to wound in order to heal.

Why I Wrote Redeeming Love Many born-again Christians talk about a single conversion experience that changed their lives forever. They can tell you the day and the hour they made their decision to live for the Lord. I can't do that.

Our work is to devote our own lives to pleasing God. It's that simple. We're to devote our efforts to learning to think as God thinks, to see ourselves and others through his eyes, to walk as he walked. That's our life's work.

I believe we all serve someone in this life. For the first thirty-eight years of mine, I served myself. My conversion was not a highly emotional experience. It was a conscious, thought-out decision that changed my focus, my direction, my heart, my life.

She came to faith because she met and talked with someone who made her feel enveloped by God's love.

Lord, you are God! You made us. Who better to know how to fix us when we've gone wrong? who better to set us to rights again? Who better to love us through the fire and refine us into something beautiful and useful despite our wrongs?

Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my thoughts. Point out anything in me that offends you, and lead me along the path of everlasting life. PSALM 139:23-24

All he'd done was change scenery, not his mind.

Cuando yo era niño, hablaba,pensaba y razonaba como un niño; pero cuando crecí, dejé atrás las cosas de niño. 1 CORINTIOS 13:11

Our work is to devote our own lives to pleasing God. It's that simple. We're to devote our efforts to learning to think as God thinks, to see ourselves and others through his eyes, to walk as he walked. That's our life's work.

What do you feel now that I'm soft clay in your hands, Michael?" "Joy," he said. "Pure joy.

Please change me. Make me whatever suits Your purposes here.

You never came out the way you came in.

I, an unnaturally large caterpillar, will reveal to you that of yourself which yet you know not

I am free. I am ransomed. I've never felt this way before, like a slave set free who was born a slave and never knew what freedom was like.

A person needs new experiences. They jar something deep inside, allowing you to grow. Without them, it sleeps- seldom to awaken. The sleeper must awaken.

There was a man so wise, He jumped into A sandy place And burnt out both his eyes! And when he knew his eyes were gone, He offered no complaint. He summoned up a vision And made himself a saint. -Children's Verse from History of Muad'dib

The day the flesh shapes and the flesh the day shapes.

A creature who has spent his life creating one particular representation of his selfdom will die rather than become the antithesis of that representation

the sleeper must awaken

The willow submits to the wind and prospers until one day it is many willows—a wall against the wind. This is the willow's purpose.

And those who pray for dew on the deserts edge; shall bring forth the deluge.

In that instant, Paul saw how Stilgar had been transformed from the Fremen naib to a creature of the Lisan al-Gaib, a receptacle for awe and obedience. It was a lessening of the man, and Paul felt the ghost-wind of the jihad in it.