Quotes about Transformation

Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

We always know when Jesus is at work because He produces in the commonplace something that is inspiring.

Our natural virtues can never come anywhere near what Jesus Christ wants.

To say that 'prayer changes things' is not as close to the truth as saying, 'prayer changes me and then I change things.' God has established things so that prayer, on the basis of redemption, changes the way a person looks at things.

We have to keep letting go, and slowly and surely the great full life of God will invade us in every part, and men will take knowledge of us that we have been with Jesus.

The only way we can be of use to God is to let Him take us through the crooks and crannies of our own characters.

say that "prayer changes things" is not as close to the truth as saying, "Prayer changes me and then I change things." God has established things so that prayer, on the basis of redemption, changes the way a person looks at things. Prayer is not a matter of changing things externally, but one of working miracles in a person's inner nature.

Sanctification means being made one with Jesus so that the nature that controlled Him will control us.

It is not so true that "prayer changes things" as that prayer changes me and I change things.

You may often see Jesus Christ wreck a life before He saves it. (Cf. Matthew 10:34)

Repentance always brings a person to the point of saying, "I have sinned." The surest sign that God is at work in his life is when he says that and means it. Anything less is simply sorrow for having made foolish mistakes—a reflex action caused by self-disgust.

Beware of harking back to what you were once when God wants you to be something you have never been. "If any man will do . . . , he shall know .