J. F. Powers Quotes

Can a secular artist be used as a vessel to bring souls to Christ? Of course... this is God we are talking about!

The Holy Ghost does not flow through methods, but through men. He does not come on machinery, but on men. He does not anoint plans, but men - men of prayer.

Only the holy spirit, the spirit of the lord, can transform us.

For Christians, they need to access the power of Jesus and not look at Christianity as a religion. It is our Lord Jesus that makes you change, and Christians need to actualize it and put it into practice.

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

The idea of a spiritual heart transplant is a vivid image to me; once you have the heart of somebody else inside you, then that heart is there. Jesus' heart is inside me, and my heart is gone. So if God were to place a stethoscope against my chest, he would hear the heart of Jesus Christ beating.

Only God who made us can touch us and change us and save us from ourselves.

God wants to free us from ourselves, and there's nothing like suffering to show us that we need something bigger than our abilities and our strength and our explanations.

Jesus represents the possibilities of a new dimension of existence that transcends all the boundaries that restrict us from opening ourselves to God and allowing this source of love to flow through us.

God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.

I discipline churchgoers with godly lessons and sharp words if they do not change their ways. My goal is to open their hearts so that they seek forgiveness.

None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you can't teach people that - they have to learn by experience.

If there's something in your life that you know needs changing, make sure you change it before God's got to change it. Because if God's got to change it, you ain't going to like it.

God does guide the lives of individuals and does fill them with the Holy Ghost.

There is a Mount Sinai for every child of God if he only knows where to find it.

Religion and education are no match for evil without the grace of God.

God wills in man only that which is good, in the kingdom of his grace; where the free will yields itself up into the grace, there God wills that which is good in the will, through the grace.

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

I must ask the Lord to direct the Holy Spirit within me to drain the life out of sin and in prayer.

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

One of the values of centering prayer is that you are not thinking about God during the time of centering prayer so you are giving God a chance to manifest. In centering prayer there are moments of peace that give the psyche a chance to realize that God may not be so bad after all. God has a chance to be himself for a change.

Sanctification is the real change in man from the sordidness of sin to the purity of God's image.

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

Holiness is the strength of the soul. It comes by faith and through obedience to God's laws and ordinances. God then purifies the heart by faith, and the heart becomes purged from that which is profane and unworthy.

All the goodness I have within me is totally from the Lord alone. When I sin, it is from me and is done on my own, but when I act righteously, it is wholly and completely of God.