Quotes about Transformation

Much of the Bible was written by murderers who were given a second chance. Moses. David. Paul. The Bible would be much shorter without grace.

Prayer is less about trying to get God to do something we want God to do and more about getting ourselves to do what God wants us to do and to become who God wants us to become.

Lord, help us stand up both to the demons that hide behind ungodly laws, and the false religion that props up injustice. Make us into a people who shine out your love so that the world might know another way is possible. Amen.

We must take a plunge into the darkness before we can fully appreciate the light.

to believe in another world despite the evidence around us, and to watch the evidence change.

As French theologian Jacques Ellul once said, "Christians should be troublemakers, creators of uncertainty, agents of a dimension incompatible with society.

Little people with big dreams are reimagining the world. Little movements of communities of ordinary radicals are committed to doing small things with great love. Now

a generation that stops complaining about the church it sees and becomes the church it dreams of. And

At that moment, we decided to stop complaining about the church we saw, and we set our hearts on becoming the church we dreamed of.

For even if the whole world believed in resurrection, little would change until we began to practice it. We can believe in CPR, but people will remain dead until someone breathes new life into them. And we can tell the world that there is life after death, but the world really seems to be wondering if there is life before death.

Truth is always a turning point.

We can never be like lillies in the garden unless we have spent time as bulbs in the dark, totally ignored.