Quotes about Transformation

Ask God to reveal hypocrisy in your life—an inconsistency between what you profess and what you practice. Then ask God to bring you so close to Christ that you won't have any desire to live an inconsistent, deceitful life.

I believe this is one of the tests of the Spirit-filled life. Is Christ becoming more and more evident in my life? Are people seeing more of Him, and less of me?

There are thousands of people who have had some form of emotional experience that they refer to as conversion but who have never been truly converted to Christ. Christ demands a change in the way you live—and if your life does not conform to your experience, then you have every reason to doubt your experience!

A born-again Christian should no more think of going back to the old life than an adult to his childhood.

A baby isn't meant to stay a baby forever, and neither is a new Christian.

The church in America has been deeply infiltrated by the "world," and in the process it is beginning to copy and resemble the world in many of its activities.

Those who believe [in Christ] are expected to be different from the world... they are members of a new society.

Jesus invited us not to a picnic, but to a pilgrimage. He offered us, not an excursion, but an execution. Our Savior said that we would have to be ready to die to self, sin, and the world.

I have never known a man who received Christ and ever regretted it.

I wept more in Korea than in all the past several years put together. These experiences changed my life. I could never be quite the same again... I felt sadder, older. I felt as though I had gone in a boy and come out a man.

What makes Christians different from everyone else is that God Himself lives within them by His Holy Spirit. When we come to Christ and give our lives to Him, God actually takes up residence within us.

In one bold stroke, forgiveness obliterates the past and permits us to enter the land of new beginnings.