Quotes about Transformation
Right believing leads to right living! Right believing leads to a life of peace, joy, and fulfillment!
— Joyce Meyer
I'm not where I need to be, but Thank God I'm not where I use to be. I'm okay and I'm on my way!
— Joyce Meyer
But our God is an expert at removing worthless things out of us while retaining the valuable.
— Joyce Meyer
Our lives improve only when we take chances -- and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
— Walter Anderson
Prayer is a refusal to settle for what is.
— Walter Brueggemann
When a god is fashioned into a golden commodity (or even lesser material); divine subject becomes divine object, and agent becomes commodity.
— Walter Brueggemann
The key insight is that honest talk transforms and emancipates when it is received in faithful seriousness.
— Walter Brueggemann
It is the silence-breaking cry that begins the process that turns pain into joy.
— Walter Brueggemann
The news enacted by Elisha is reperformed by Jesus. It is, subsequently, performed in many other venues, sometimes by the followers of Jesus, sometimes by others who stand alongside the faithful followers of Jesus. In every such performance of the news, it is Gospel truth enacted as practical transformation that settled power can neither enact nor prevent.
— Walter Brueggemann
requires both the outrageousness of God and the daily work of decreasing so that Jesus and God's vision of peace may increase.
— Walter Brueggemann
4. There is a text that looms in resilient power. There is a waiting congregation, perhaps not tired out, but too sure of self, pretending buoyancy where there might have been transformation. There is the voice that takes the old script and renders it to evoke a new world we had not yet witnessed (cf. Isa. 43:19). The fourth and final partner is this better world given as fresh revelation.
— Walter Brueggemann
He became an obedient human person, and because of his passion for God's will for him, he collided with the will and purpose of the Roman Empire and with the Jews who colluded with the empire. He is not crucified because of some theory of the atonement. He is crucified because the empire cannot tolerate such a transformative, subversive force set loose in the world.
— Walter Brueggemann