J. C. Ryle Quotes

Christianity is a religion of continuity and discontinuity as well. It's about what stays the same and what changes in the twinkling of an eye. Both are necessary truths, but sometimes it's important to accentuate the discontinuity, the sudden leap, the way you go up a tree, Zacchaeus, and come down a saint.

People talk about preaching to the converted, which is total codswallop rubbish. There is no such thing as being converted forever - absolutely no such thing.

You can laugh at Christianity; you can mock and ridicule it. But it works. It changes lives. If you trust Christ, start watching your attitudes and actions, because Jesus Christ is in the business of changing lives.

Every story of conversion is the story of a blessed defeat.

My mother's belief in spiritual healers grew stronger after our family went through a rough patch following my father's death. Sufi saint Karimullah Shah Kadri changed our lives, and all of us converted to Sufism. But it wasn't an instantaneous decision - it took us 10 years to convert. The change in religion was like washing away the past.

I used to be an atheist, but I've chilled out a bit on that.

We need to understand that Christianity is about changing; it is not about a religion.

One encounter with Jesus Christ is enough to change you, instantly, forever.

Prayer doesn't just change things - it changes us. If we are diligent in seeking God, slowly and surely we become better people.

I said, 'Okay, Jesus, I'll try you,' and I haven't looked back since.

I was one thing at one time, and I'm something new. I'm a new creature now. Don't judge Alice by what he used to be. Praise God for what I am now.

All you can do is create a space for transformation to happen, for grace and love to enter.

God changes caterpillars into butterflies, sand into pearls and coal into diamonds using time and pressure. He's working on you, too.

'I don't believe you've changed at all, Charles.' 'No, I'm afraid not.' 'D'you want to change?' 'It's the only evidence of life.'

And fools who came to scoff remain'd to pray.

When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.

I found the one, he changed my life, but was it me that changed?

Here's good news: God is even more committed to your change, your growth, and your transformation than you are.

Prayer does change things, all kinds of things. But the most important thing it changes is us.

There are only two types of change: Something new comes into your life, or something new comes out of you.

We all know that a winter scene, though it may be covered over one day, with even the trees dressed in shawls of snow, will be unrecognizable the following spring. Yet I never imagined such a thing could occur within our very selves.

The Hebrew will turn Christian; he grows kind.

Prayer does change things, all kinds of things. But the most important thing it changes is us. As we engage in this communion with God more deeply and come to know the One with whom we are speaking more intimately, that growing knowledge of God reveals to us all the more brilliantly who we are and our need to change in conformity to Him. Prayer changes us profoundly.

Faith transforms the whole person precisely to the extent that he or she becomes open to love.

Transformations is the word. We can do the work of transformation only in the present moment