Quotes about Transformation

Repentance for sin is the first fruits of the working of the Holy Spirit in the life.

Men are changed in accordance with what they contemplate.

Heaven is a good place. I long to be there and behold my lovely Jesus, who gave His life for me, and be changed into His glorious image. Oh, for language to express the glory of the bright world to come! I thirst for the living streams that make glad the city of our God.—The Adventist Home, pp. 542, 543.

We can receive of heaven's light only as we are willing to be emptied of self.

Faith in Christ as a personal Saviour will give strength and solidity to the character.

There are many who profess Christ, but who never become mature Christians.

By contemplation of God's matchless love, we take upon us His nature.

One day's experience had been the turning point in Joseph's life. Its terrible calamity had transformed him from a petted child to a man, thoughtful, courageous, and self-possessed.

A character formed according to the divine likeness is the only treasure that we can take from this world to the next.

If you are to be saints in heaven, you must first be saints upon the earth.

Shall we lay hold upon the hope set before us in the gospel that we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is?

But Christ, after having redeemed man from the condemnation of the law, could impart divine power to unite with human effort. Thus by repentance toward God and faith in Christ the fallen children of Adam might once more become "sons of God." 1 John 3:2.