spiritual change Quotes

Don't try to change people. It won't work, and they will end up resenting you. Only God can change people!

Sanctification is the work of the Holy Spirit in us whereby our inner being is progressively changed, freeing us more and more from sinful traits and developing within us over time the virtues of Christlike character.

Conversion brings a drive to learn.

The circumstances we ask God to CHANGE are often the circumstances God is using to CHANGE US.

Being reminded about the incredible power of God's love, and living as He intended, is the most powerful motivation to change.

The men of moral and religious earnestness were bent on some measure of fresh reform. A spirit was abroad which could not be put down, and which would not be quiet. The old idea of an authoritative Church was outgrown, and yet no religious system had come in its place which provided for a free personal approach to God Himself.

The hour that burst the spirit's sleep.

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

I went from being a Christian missionary to an atheist.

No one ever converted to Christianity because they lost the argument.

Nothing on earth has greater potential to change lives and carry out His kingdom work in your community, than your local church.There's nothing like the local church when it's working right. Its beauty is indescribable. Its power is breathtaking. Its potential is unlimited. No other organization on earth is like the church. Nothing even comes close.

Nothing but the heart can change the heart.

I was brought up Catholic. I'm lapsed. From the age of three I was with the nuns. Now I'm an atheist.

Don't fool people to think you are better than who you are. Instead of trying to act changed, pray that you will be changed.

Being prophets may sometimes imply making waves. I do not know how to put it.... Prophecy makes noise, uproar, some say ‘a mess.’ But in reality, the charisma of religious people is like yeast: prophecy announces the spirit of the Gospel.

The baptism of the spirit will do for you, what a phone booth did for Clark Kent, it will change you into a different being.

When you are converted, you want to do what you didn't want to do before, and you don't want to do what you wanted to do before. There's a change in the heart; there's a cleaning up, a change in orientation, and holiness becomes attractive, instead of something you have to put up with to figure out what you can get away with. As long as young people are asking, 'Can I get away with this?' or 'Can I get away with that?' I wonder if they're regenerate. If they're asking, instead, 'How can I grow in holiness?' then I suspect they've begun to understand.

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

The evidence of Jesus Christ is lives changed.

God became man to turn creatures into sons: not simply to produce better men of the old kind but to produce a new kind of man. It is not like teaching a horse to jump better and better but like turning a horse into a winged creature.

Social change really cannot happen unless people are willing to take a risk, and they were. And I was so moved by that, and of course by the way that he spoke, that made a huge dent in my belief system and my spirit.

You can change your faith without changing gods, and vice versa.

All bonafide revolutions are of necessity revolutions of the spirit.

Death Makes Angels of us all.

When things hurt us, we're merely on our way to another spiritual environment.