Pope Francis Quotes

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

The evidence of conversion is not a decision card filled out, it's a life being lived out.

I speak as a man of the world to men of the world; and I say to you, Search the Scriptures! The Bible is the book of all others, to be read at all ages, and in all conditions of human life; not to be read once or twice or thrice through, and then laid aside, but to be read in small portions of one or two chapters every day, and never to be intermitted, unless by some overruling necessity.

The Scriptures were not given to increase our knowledge, but to change our lives.

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

I found that when I did something for the sake of heaven, heaven happened. These things changed my life. I owe them to my encounter with Christianity.

Replacing physical priorities with spiritual priorities can change everything.

The ultimate verification of our religion consists of the changed lives to which it can point and for which it is responsible.

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.

Let us ask the Holy Spirit for the grace to live daily according to the mind of Jesus and his Gospel.

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

Every time I have had a breakthrough in my life, it has been because of Prayer

I received Christ into my heart and my life began to change. But it was a gradual change. And I didn't see any flashing bulbs. I didn't hear any thunder. There was no great emotional experience. It was just saying: Yes, Lord Jesus, I want you to be the lord of my life.

The 'renewed' mind is the canvas on which the Spirit of God can paint.

The Christian is prepared to say, 'I don't like the sound of this, ... but if this is what it really means, I'm going to have to pray for grace and strength to get that into my heart and be shaped by it.'

I know personally the transforming power of the Word of God-it's changed my life.

When you pray, things remain the same, but you begin to be different. The same thing when a man falls in love, his circumstances and conditions remain the same, but he has a sovereign preference in his heart for another person which transfigures everything!

Sometimes, God may prioritize performing a miracle on our hearts and minds over a miracle concerning our circumstances.

I want God’s Word to get into our bone marrow and change the way we walk...change what we do...change how we think.

Jesus does not respond to our worry-filled way of living by saying that we should not be so busy with worldly affairs. He does not try to pull us away from the many events, activities, and people that make up our lives. . . . He asks us to shift the point of gravity, to relocate the center of our attention, to change our priorities. Jesus does not speak about a change of activities, a change in contacts, or even a change of pace. He speaks about a change of heart.

What breaks your heart is part of a divine design to bring change!

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

Do not despair, thinking that you cannot change yourself after so many years. Simply enter into the presence of Jesus as you are and ask him to give you a fearless heart where he can be with you. You cannot make yourself different. Jesus came to give you a new heart, a new spirit, a new mind, and a new body. Let him transform you by his love and so enable you to receive his affection in your whole being.

If worship does not change us it has not been worship.

Many people need a new rewiring of their heart and mind.