Quotes about Transformation

Private prayers are the catalyst for public miracles.

This horror will grow mild, this darkness light.

I once was lost but now I'm found, was blind but now I see.

I am not the man I ought to be, I am not the man I wish to be and I am not the man I hope to be, but, by the grace of God, I am not the man I used to be.

Spiritual discipline: Any activity that can help me gain power to live life as Jesus taught and modeled it.

But to grow spiritually means to live increasingly as Jesus would in our unique place—to perceive what Jesus would perceive if he looked through our eyes, to think what he would think, to feel what he would feel, and therefore to do what he would do.

He can make the dry parched ground of my soul to become a pool and my thirsty barren heart as springs of water. Yes he can make this habitation of dragons this heart which is so full of abominable lusts and fiery temptations to be a place of bounty and fruitfulness unto Himself

Holiness is nothing but the implanting, writing and living out the gospel in our souls

There is no way of deliverance from the state and condition of being in the flesh, but by the Spirit of Christ.

Before the work of grace the heart is 'stony.' It can do no more than a stone can do to please God.

When the Holy Spirit does his work of regeneration in the hearts of men he does not come on them with great powerful feelings and emotions which cannot be resisted. He does not possess men as evil spirits take possession of their victims.

Christ did not die to make good works merely possible or to produce a half-hearted pursuit. He died to produce in us a passion for good deeds. Christian purity is not the mere avoidance of evil, but the pursuit of good.