Mother Teresa Quotes

Nobody can convert you except God.

God has given us the Disciplines of the spiritual life as a means of receiving his grace. The Disciplines allow us to place ourselves before God so that he can transform us.

The inner man cannot be forced to do out of his own free will, what he should do, except the grace of God change the heart and make it willing.

Can human hearts be changed? Why, of course! It happens every day in the great missionary work of the Church. It is one of the most widespread of Christ's modern miracles. If it hasn't happened to you - it should.

No one can truly see Christ, and drink in the influence of his character, and not be a Christian at heart.

Regeneration is God's disposing the heart to Himself; conversion is the actual turning of the heart to God.

Being a Christian is not just about following commandments: it is about letting Christ take possession of our lives and transform them.

God to be God must rule the heart and transform it.

God has the potential of touching people's hearts and changing them.

My job is simply to proclaim the Gospel, and to let the Spirit of God apply in the individual hearts. When I give the invitation for people to receive Christ it will be so quiet you can hear a pin drop. And you will see people coming forward deliberately, quietly, reverently, thoughtfully, and many of their lives. . . . will have been transformed and changed in that moment.

Jesus is knocking at your door. Take hold of the better life by letting him into your life. Make him the boss of your life. It'll change everything.

The revolution of Jesus is in the first place and continuously a revolution of the human heart or spirit...it is a revolution of character which proceeds by changing people from the inside through ongoing personal relationship to God in Christ and to one another. It is one that changes their ideas, beliefs, feelings, and habits of choice, as well as their bodily tendencies and social relations. It penetrates to the deepest layer of their soul. External, social arrangements may be used to this end, but they are not the end, nor are they a fundamental part of the means

Before the work of grace the heart is ‘stony.’ It can do no more than a stone can do to please God.

Often we talk about God's ability to change lives without fully understanding how to access that power.

When we enter into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, something wonderful happens: God begins to change our desires, and we want to be more like Him.

Early in the winter of 2002, I gave my life to the Lord. Before I was one, I always thought being a Christian would be boring. In reality, it has been the complete opposite.

I'm a born-again Christian, but that's not the coat that I wear. It's just how my heart's been changed.

Honestly, when I read the Scriptures, I really believe the Lord puts a heart in us when we become believers.

We are Jesus Christ's; we belong to him. But even more, we are increasingly him. He moves in and commandeers our hands and feet, requisitions our minds and tongues. We sense his rearranging: debris into the divine, pig's ear into silk purse. He repurposes bad decisions and squalid choices. Little by little, a new image emerges.

I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.

Our job is not to change people; our job is to connect people to Jesus, and it's Jesus' job to change people.

Restored' has been about how God has restored my life.

Conversion is not, as some suppose, a violent opening of the heart by grace, in which will, reason and judgment are all ignored or crushed. The season is not blinded, but enlightened; and the whole man is made to act with a glorious liberty which it never knew till it fell under the restraints of grace.

Living a spiritual life requires a change of heart, a conversion. Such a conversion may be marked by a sudden inner change, or it can take place through a long, quiet process of transformation. But it always involves an inner experience of oneness.

Do you think that any one can move the heart but He that made it?