Quotes About Transformation

Our believing does not cause new birth. The new birth causes our belief.

God does not intend to replace us when we are united to Christ; he intends to renew us and empower us and guide us.

Sanctification in any area of our lives always expresses this double dimension—a putting off and a putting on, as it were. Speech and silence, appropriately expressed, are together the mark of the mature.3

No man can have the least ground of assurance that he hath seen Christ and his glory by faith, without some effects of it in changing him into his likeness. John Owen

God has his ways to loosen your roots.

Make this the year you stop complaining about your weaknesses, and instead search for their God-given purpose.

This is the path toward change. We are called to take it and not wait passively while our minds are drawn away with all kinds of passions that wage war against our souls (1 Peter 2:11). It is when we focus our minds on the glory of Christ that we are transformed from one degree of glory to another (2 Corinthians 3:18). Take this moment to resolve that you will be intentional about what your mind considers. It will dwell on something, and what it dwells on, it becomes like.

If we don't want God above all things we have not been converted by the gospel.

When God put Christ in our condemned place, he did this not only to secure heaven, but to secure holiness. Or even more precisely, not only to secure our life in paradise, but also to secure our love for people.

Now there was only one hope, the sovereign grace of God. God would have to transform my heart to do what a heart cannot make itself do, namely, want what it ought to want. Only God can make the depraved heart desire God.

Books don't change people; paragraphs do; sometimes even sentences.

Books don't change people; paragraphs do, Sometimes even sentences.

Though blue sky and the road's yellow dust and the green of the nearing oasis were all snuffed out, he (newly converted Saul) did not miss them. Light suffused his blinded eyes, his mind.

Faith in Christ leaped from person to person like some divine epidemic, not of disease but of spiritual health.

His (Paul's) entire personality within mutation. He was being turned inside out as he led Jesus light the recesses of his soul.

For a slave to be taught that he should no longer lie and cheat with revolutionary; more astonishing still was the slave's discovery that he did not want to lie or cheat and that he now loved the owner whom he had once resented and feared.

Luxor, Egypt's best known and historically most popular tourist resort. In recent years, the city has also been transformed into the male prostitution capital of the Middle East.

People don't resist change. They resist being changed! ~ Peter Senge

Change Management seems to result in lots of management and little change. What I'm really looking for is Change Leadership!~ a very frustrated CEO

It was only in the 1990s, in Bosnia, that "the Che Guevara of Islam"43 really came into his own, developing al-Qa'ida into the flexible, well-funded multinational jihadi organization it became. It was the Bosnian civil war that transformed bin Laden and his cadres into the backbone of the mujahidin worldwide.

Spiritual power begins by directing animal power to other than egoistic ends.

The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it.

The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it.

The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it.