Quotes about Transformation

The same grace that forgives your past empowers you to live in a new way in the future.

True biblical faith is always something that you live. If your faith does not reshape your life, it is not true faith.

God is at work, taking people who instinctively speak for themselves and transforming them into people who effectively speak for him.

We need more than acceptance or practical strategies for change. We need the forgiveness, deliverance, and empowerment that only God's grace can give.

If you aren't daily admitting to yourself that you are a mess and in daily and rather desperate need for forgiving and transforming grace, and if the evidence around has not caused you to abandon your confidence in your own righteousness, then you are going to give yourself to the work of convincing yourself that you are okay.

Lord, please crush my heart with the guilt of my sin so that you may fill it once again with the glory of your redeeming grace.

When the Word of God, faithfully taught by the people of God and empowered by the Spirit of God, falls down, people become different.

We must always, always, remember that the theology of the Word of God is not an end in itself but a means to an end, and that end is a radically grace-transformed

The person who is comfortable in his own righteousness hasn't really understood grace, and the person who is unimpressed by God's grace hasn't really understood his sin. So

God's grace not only provides you with what you need, but also transforms you into what he in wisdom created you to be.

Here it is: if you are God's child, the life force that energizes your thoughts, desires, words, and actions is no longer you; it's Christ! God didn't just forgive you. No, he has come to live inside of you so you will have the power to desire and do what he calls you to do.

All their commitments to change have been subverted by the one thing they seem unwilling to do: take the focus off the other and put it on themselves. Here is the point: no change takes place in a marriage that does not begin with confession.