Quotes about Transformation
Heartily know, when half-gods go, the gods arrive.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Someday this upside-down world will be turned right side up. Nothing in all eternity will turn it back again. If we are wise, we will use our brief lives on earth positioning ourselves for the turn.
— Randy Alcorn
A Christ-centered church is not a showcase for saints but a hospital for sinners.
— Randy Alcorn
Our minds are so much set on Earth that we are unaccustomed to heavenly thinking. So we must work at it.
— Randy Alcorn
The kingdom of God . . . does not mean merely the salvation of certain individuals nor even the salvation of a chosen group of people. It means nothing less than the complete renewal of the entire cosmos, culminating in the new heaven and the new earth. Anthony Hoekema
— Randy Alcorn
God is the ultimate salvage artist. He loves to restore things to their original condition—and make them even better.
— Randy Alcorn
For anyone who knows what it is to weep over sin or loss or pain, Heaven offers a beautiful promise: one day God himself will wipe the tears from our eyes. And even better, one day he will transform those tears into laughter. The Lamb in the midst of the throne will be their shepherd, and he will guide them to springs of living water, and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes. Revelation 7:17
— Randy Alcorn
An unholy world will never be won to Christ by an unholy church.
— Randy Alcorn
R. A. Torrey writes, "We will not be disembodied spirits in the world to come, but redeemed spirits, in redeemed bodies, in a redeemed universe.
— Randy Alcorn
Christ's resurrection is the forerunner of our own, and our resurrection is the forerunner of the earth's.
— Randy Alcorn
Now, in comparison to both Matthew 17 and Revelation 1, it appears that the risen Christ, before his ascension, was not yet fully glorified. If he would have been glorified, surely his identity would have been immediately apparent to Mary Magdalene (John 20:14), the disciples on the Emmaus road (Luke 24:15-16), and Peter and the apostles when they saw him on the shore (John 21:4). Consider
— Randy Alcorn
God isn't just preparing a place for us. He is preparing us for that place.
— Randy Alcorn