Quotes about Transformation

By altering our attitudes we can alter our lives.

We must alter our lives in order to alter our hearts, for it is impossible to live one way and pray another.

INTRODUCTION THE FIRST NEGOTIATION Let him who would move the world first move himself. —SOCRATES

All of us are either trying to work and be good enough to please God, or we are believing and trusting God to do for us what we can't do for ourselves. At each moment of our lives we find ourselves on one road or the other. If we are still trying to please God through being good enough, defeat and frustration will be our lot. If we have trusted in God's grace to transform us and form Christ within us, we will enjoy life and peace.

Grace transforms desolate and bleak plains into rich, green pastures. It changes grit-your-teeth duty into loving, enthusiastic service. It exchanges the tears and guilt of our own failed efforts for the eternal thrill and laughter of freely offered pleasures at the right hand of God. Grace changes everything!

"Pretty is as pretty does" was a stupid cliché in her estimation. Pretty is what God does in the hearts and minds of people who are a mess-whether outwardly or inwardly or both.

When you figure out where you're messing up and you hate that behavior bad enough, that's where all the good parts of you begin.

He changed sunset into sunrise.

The resurrection is the fundamental restoration of all culture.

conversion is a necessary and moral duty for every man.

Culture, therefore, sinks into the background; man must first become a son of God before he can be, in a genuine sense, a cultured being.

Conversion is a turning back to God, but at the same time a coming to one's self.