Quotes About Transformation

Be sure that at the root of all real experience of more grace, of all true advance in consecration, of all actually increasing conformity to the likeness of Jesus, there must be a deadness to self that proves itself to God and men in our dispositions and habits.

The only hope of a decreasing self is an increasing Christ." F. B. MEYER

It is only through death to the world that we can be freed from its spirit.

One of the great reasons that so many Christians never come out of the Old Covenant, never even know that they are in it, and have to come out of it, is that there is so much head knowledge, without the power of the Spirit in the heart being waited for.

The truth is this: Pride must die in you, or nothing of heaven can live in you.

There is but one way of being delivered from this life of self. We must follow Christ, set our hearts upon Him, listen to His teachings, give ourselves up every day, that He may be all to us, and by the power of Christ the denial of self will be a blessed, unceasing reality.

Come and let us flee to Jesus, and hide ourselves in Him until we be clothed upon with His humility.

A dead Christ, I must do everything for; a living Christ does everything for me.

I must have the Holy Spirit sanctifying my whole inner life if I am really to live for God's glory.

Christ spoke of power to the disciples, but it was the Spirit filling their whole being that worked the power.

Peter utterly changed—the self-pleasing, the self-trusting, the self-seeking Peter, full of sin, continually getting into trouble, foolish and impetuous, now filled with the Spirit and the life of Jesus. Christ had done it for him by the Holy Spirit.

A vessel must be empty if it is to be filled, and if we are to be filled with the life of God we must be utterly empty of self.

Do you love Christ? Do you long to be in Christ, and not like Him?

A new life from above, the life of Christ, must take the place of the self-life; then alone can we be conquerors.

In Your death I would live daily; in Your life I would die daily.

The hidden value of His blood is the spirit of self-sacrifice, and where the blood really touches the heart, it works out in that heart, a like spirit of self-sacrifice. We learn to give up ourselves and our lives, so as to press into the full power of that new life, which the blood. has provided.

We often speak about how we should remain in Christ, but we forget that this means we must remain in a crucified Christ.

Stop and think, and take in the wondrous thought that will be both the motivation and the power for an entirely new life: "Christ is in you." If you merely learn to believe this, to give way to it, and to yield yourself to Him, He will do His mighty saving work in you.

May God write the Word in our hearts!

This teaches us that no outward instruction, even from Christ himself, or His words in Scripture, can bring us the full blessing—until the Holy Spirit works it in us.

When feeling says, 'In myself, I am sinful; I am dark; I am weak; I am poor; I am sad;' let faith say. 'In Christ, I am holy; I am light; I am strong; I am rich; I am joyful.

Believer! study the humility of Jesus. This is the secret, the hidden root of thy redemption. Sink down into it deeper day by day. Believe with thy whole heart that this Christ, whom God has given thee, even as His divine humility wrought the work for thee, will enter in to dwell and work within thee too, and make thee what the Father would have thee be.

He has learnt that in putting on the Lord Jesus he has put on the heart of compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, and long-suffering. Jesus has taken the place of self, and it is not an impossibility to forgive as Jesus

Does love always form, like a pearl, around the hardened bits of life?