Quotes about Transformation

When you offer yourself to God as His servant, He first expects to shape you into the instrument of His choosing. He will always work in you before He works through you.

Ezekiel 36:26: "I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will remove your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.

Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.

We are always on the anvil by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

Repentance is another name for aspiration.

Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.

Troubles are often the tools God fashions us for better things.

The greatest miracle that God can do today is to take an unholy man out of an unholy world and make him holy, then put him back into that unholy world and keep him holy in it.

There are two kinds of people in the world—only two kinds. Not black or white, rich or poor, but those either dead in sin or dead to sin.

Prayer does not condition God; prayer conditions us. Prayer does not win God to our view; it reveals God's view to us.

Jesus said, ''Go ye!'' but He also said, ''Tarry until!'' Let any man shut himself up for a week with only bread and water, with no books except the Bible, with no visitor except the Holy Ghost, and I guarantee, my preacher brethren, that that man will either break up or break through and out. After that, like Paul, he will be known in hell!

And before we can be clean and ready for Him to control, self-seeking, self-glory, self-interest, self-pity, self-righteousness, self-importance, self-promotion, self-satisfaction—and whatsoever else there be of self—must die.