Spiritual Transformation Quotes

• Beware of harking back to what you once were when God wants you to be something you have never been.

  Oswald Chambers

  God, Christian, Religious

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “Our Brilliant Heritage / If You Will Be Perfect / Disciples Indeed: The Inheritance of God's Transforming Mind & Heart”, p.138, Discovery House

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• I hate how hard spiritual transformation is and how long it takes. I hate thinking about how many people have gone to church for decades and remain joyless or judgmental or bitter or superior.

  John Ortberg

  Spiritual, Hate, Thinking

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• Spiritual transformation into Christ-likeness in not going to happen unless we act... What transforms us is the will to obey Jesus Christ.

  Dallas Willard

  Spiritual, Jesus, Transformation

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• Use me, God. Show me how to take who I am, who I want to be, and what I can do, and use it for a purpose greater than myself.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  God, Christian, Religious

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• The Bible was not given for our information but for our transformation.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Inspiring, Bible, Religious

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• I want to change my circumstances. God wants to change me.

  Rick Warren

  Change, God, Faith

  FaceBook post by Pastor Rick Warren from May 17, 2012

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• Complacency is the deadly enemy of spiritual progress. The contented soul is the stagnant soul.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Spiritual, Soul, Enemy

  "The Size of the Soul: Principles of Revival and Spiritual Growth". Book by Aiden Wilson Tozer, 1992.

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• Transformation is a process, and as life happens there are tons of ups and downs. It's a journey of discovery - there are moments on mountaintops and moments in deep valleys of despair.

  Rick Warren

  Journey, Discovery, Despair

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• We take what we think are the tools of spiritual transformation into our own hands and try to sculpt ourselves into robust Christlike specimens. But spiritual transformation is primarily the work of the Holy Spirit. He is the Master Sculptor

  Jerry Bridges

  Spiritual, Thinking, Hands

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• Know that transformation sometimes begins with a fall. So never curse the fall. The ground is where humility lives. Take it. Learn it. Breathe it in. And then come back stronger, humbler and more aware of your need for Him. Come back having seen your own nothingness and His greatness.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Fall, Humility, Greatness

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• If you will transform your mind, God will transform your life.

  Joel Osteen

  Change, Life Changing, Mind

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• This is the key to life: the ability to reflect, the ability to know yourself, the ability to pause for a second before reacting automatically. If you can truly know yourself, you will begin the journey of transformation.

  Deepak Chopra

  Success, Journey, Keys

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• The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Change, God, Faith

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• You've got to admit you're broken before you can be made whole.

  LeCrae

  Broken, Made, Whole

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• By opening our lives to God in Christ, we become new creatures. This experience, which Jesus spoke of as the new birth, is essential if we are to be transformed nonconformists . . . Only through an inner spiritual transformation do we gain the strength to fight vigorously the evils of the world in a humble and loving spirit.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Christian, Spiritual, Jesus

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.18, Beacon Press

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• You change your life by changing your heart.

  Max Lucado

  Inspirational, Change, Uplifting

  Max Lucado (2008). “Lucado 2in1 (In the Eye of the Storm & Applause of Heaven)”, p.181, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• We are all hypocrites in transition. I am not who I want to be, but I am on the journey there, and thankfully I am not whom I used to be.

  Erwin McManus

  Hypocrite, Journey, Transition

  Erwin Raphael McManus (2008). “Soul Cravings: An Exploration of the Human Spirit”, p.77, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• If my ruling disposition is self-interest, I perceive that everything that happens to me is always for or against my self-interest; if, on the other hand, my ruling disposition is obedience to God, I perceive Him to be at work for my perfecting in everything that happens to me.

  Oswald Chambers

  Faith, God, Christian

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “Biblical Ethics / The Moral Foundations of Life / The Philosophy of Sin: Ethical Principles for the Christian Life”, p.207, Discovery House

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• The yoga we practice is not for ourselves alone, but for the Divine; its aim is to work out the will of the Divine in the world, to effect a spiritual transformation and to bring down a divine nature and a divine life into the mental, vital and physical nature and life of humanity. Its object is not personal Mukti, although Mukti is a necessary condition of the yoga, but the liberation and transformation of the human being. It is not personal Ananda, but the bringing down of the divine Ananda - Christ's kingdom of heaven, our Satyayuga - upon the earth.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Spiritual, Yoga, Practice

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• You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself.

  Charles Spurgeon

  God, Faith, Christian

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• Spiritual practice . . . involves, on the one hand, acting out of concern for others' well-being. On the other, it entails transforming ourselves so that we become more readily disposed to do so.

  Dalai Lama

  Spiritual, Hands, Practice

  The Dalai Lama (2012). “The Essence Of Wisdom”, p.9, Hachette UK

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  Healing may not be so much about getting better, as about letting go of everything that isn’t you - all of the expectations, all of the beliefs - and becoming who you are.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Inspirational, Motivational, Letting Go

  "Turning On The Light At Times Of Loss" by Anne Naylor, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 22, 2010.

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• Overcoming negative tendencies and enhancing positive potential are the very essence of the spiritual path.

  Dalai Lama

  Spiritual, Essence, Overcoming

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• Program your mind with what God says about you and a transformation will take place.

  Joel Osteen

  Change, God, Christian

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