David A. Bednar Quotes

With patience and persistence, even the smallest act of discipleship or the tiniest ember of belief can become a blazing bonfire of a consecrated life. In fact, that's how most bonfires begin - as a simple spark.

To pray is to change. This is a great grace. How good of God to provide a path whereby our lives can be taken over by love and joy and peace and patience and kindness and goodness and faithfulness and gentleness and self-control.

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.

Before one accepts spirituality, astrology is very powerful, like a lion. Then when one enters into a deeper spiritual life, astrology becomes a tiny household cat.

Christlikeness is your eventual destination, but your journey will last a lifetime.

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.

God never alters the robe of righteousness to fit the man. Rather He alters the man to fit the robe.

In Spiritual formation we are aiming at a character and life that is so shaped that the deeds of Christ routinely and easily come from what is inside.

Our identification with Christ should be that whatever He is we also want to become.

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

The Lord doesn't put us through this test just to give us a test: He does it because the process will change us.

As we open our creative channel to the creator, many gentle but powerful changes are to be expected.

Faith begins as an experiment, and ends as an experience.

Becoming like Christ is a long, slow process of growth.

A Christian is never in a state of completion but always in a process of becoming.

Prayer is not so much about convincing God to do what we want God to do as it is about convincing ourselves to do what God wants us to do.

The Holy Spirit wants to convert the words of Scripture into transformed personalities.

Today we need whatever methods or help we can receive to allow the Christian message to take us to a deeper level of transformation.

I used to think I could shape the circumstances around me, but now I know Jesus uses circumstances to shape me.

Whatever God wants to do through you, He will do in you first. You've got to be what you want to see.

The purpose of God's discipline is not to punish us but to transform us.

Do you understand what God has done? He has deposited a Christ seed in you. As it grows you will change. It's not that sin has no more presence in your life, but rather that sin has no more power over your life.

Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them will flood the soul.

Becoming a Christian is the work of a moment; being a Christian is the work of a lifetime.

Our spirits are united with Jesus at salvation, but our minds are being progressively transformed into his nature.