 Within each of us exists the image of God, however disfigured and corrupted by sin it may presently be. God is able to recover this image through grace as we are conformed to Christ. Author: Alister McGrath |
| The work of spirituality is to recognize where we are - the particular circumstances of our lives - to recognize grace and say, "Do you suppose God wants to be with me in a way that does not involve changing my spouse or getting rid of my spouse or my kids, but in changing me, and doing something in my life that maybe I could never experience without this pain and this suffering? Author: Edmund Clowney |
| Our past experiences may have made us the way we are, but we don't have to stay that way. Author: Joyce Meyer |
| Your soul is your mind, your will and your emotions. When the Word gets rooted in there and begins to change your mind, it begins to heal your emotions and turn your will away from self-will and onto doing the will of God. Author: Joyce Meyer |
| Sociologists have a theory of the looking-glass self: you become what the most important person in your life (wife, father, boss, etc.) thinks you are. How would my life change if I truly believed the Bible's astounding words about God's love for me, if I looked in the mirror and saw what God sees? Author: Philip Yancey
Source: What's So Amazing About Grace? |
| In worship an increased power steals its way into the heart sanctuary, an increased compassion grows in the soul. To worship is to change. Author: Richard J. Foster |
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| To stand before the Holy One of eternity is to change. Resentments cannot be held with the same tenacity when we enter his gracious light. Author: Richard J. Foster |
| God never forces men to act against their wills. By workings of outward providence or of inward grace, the Lord may change men's minds, but He will not coerce a human being into thoughts, words or actions. Author: Walter J. Chantry
Source: Man's Will-Free Yet Bound, The Banner of Truth magazine, Issue 140 |
| Wherever the Bible has been consistently applied, it has dramatically changed the civilization and culture of those who have accepted its teaching. No other book has ever so dramatically changed the individual lives and society in general. Author: John F. Walvoord |
| If we prepare ourselves for life's inevitables, we will not be perplexed by life's transitions. Author: Jack Hyles |
| Not more certain is it that it is something outside the thermometer that produces a change in the thermometer, than it is something outside the soul of man that produces a moral change upon him. That he must be susceptible to that change, that he must be a party to it, goes without saying; but that neither his aptitude nor his will can produce it is equally certain. Author: Henry Drummond
Source: The Changed Life, p. 20. |
| The change we have been striving after is not to be produced by any more striving after. It is to be wrought upon us by the moulding of hands beyond our own. As the branch ascends, and the bud bursts, and the fruit reddens under the cooperation of influences from the outside air, so man rises to the higher stature under invisible pressures from without. Author: Henry Drummond
Source: The Changed Life, p. 21. |
