Quotes About Transformation

Maybe I'll be graceful in my next life.

Before there could be any permanent reformation the people must be led to feel their utter inability in themselves to render obedience to God.

Something better" is the watchword . . . of all true living. Whatever Christ asks us to renounce, He offers in its stead something better. . .

The Christian's life is not a modification or improvement of the old, but a transformation of nature.

Repentance for sin is the first fruits of the working of the Holy Spirit in the life. It

Men are changed in accordance with what they contemplate.

Heaven is a good place. I long to be there and behold my lovely Jesus, who gave His life for me, and be changed into His glorious image. Oh, for language to express the glory of the bright world to come! I thirst for the living streams that make glad the city of our God.—The Adventist Home, pp. 542, 543.

we are changed into the same image. But by beholding Jesus, talking of His love

We can receive of heaven's light only as we are willing to be emptied of self.

Faith in Christ as a personal Saviour will give strength and solidity to the character. Those

If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. 2 Cor. 5:17.

By contemplation of God's matchless love, we take upon us His nature. Christ

One day's experience had been the turning point in Joseph's life. Its terrible calamity had transformed him from a petted child to a man, thoughtful, courageous, and self-possessed.—

In the estimation of men, his life had been just and honorable; but in the presence of Christ he felt that his heart was unclean, and his life unholy. Nicodemus

A character formed according to the divine likeness is the only treasure that we can take from this world to the next.

If you are to be saints in heaven, you must first be saints upon the earth.—

Shall we lay hold upon the hope set before us in the gospel that we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is?

Quién posee nuestro corazón? ¿Con quién están nuestros pensamientos? ¿De quién nos gusta hablar? ¿Para quién son nuestros más ardientes afectos y nuestras mejores energías? Si somos de Cristo, nuestros pensamientos están con él y nuestros más gratos pensamientos son para él. Todo lo que tenemos y somos lo hemos consagrado a él. Deseamos vehementemente ser semejantes a él, tener su Espíritu, hacer su voluntad y agradarle en todo.

Once a man I was leaving told me I could go if I would leave my skin behind. I was so young I didn't even know that I was wonderful..

Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?

Misery has made more revolutions than either philanthropy or economics.

None but Christ can fashion anew the character that has been ruined by sin. He

The more we realize that most of our views of ourselves, of others, and of presumed limits regarding our talents, our health, and our happiness were mindlessly accepted by us at an earlier time in our lives, the more we open up to the realization that these too can change. And all we need do to begin the process is to be mindful.

Changing of contexts, as we've seen in earlier chapters, generates imagination and creativity as well as new energy.