Joel Osteen Quotes

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

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

Prayer doesn't just change things - it changes us. If we are diligent in seeking God, slowly and surely we become better people.

Whatever God is urging you to clear away cannot begin to be compared to what He ultimately wants to bring you.

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

God loves you just the way you are, but he refuses to leave you that way.

Prayer does change things, all kinds of things. But the most important thing it changes is us. As we engage in this communion with God more deeply and come to know the One with whom we are speaking more intimately, that growing knowledge of God reveals to us all the more brilliantly who we are and our need to change in conformity to Him. Prayer changes us profoundly.

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

God, make me so uncomfortable that I will do the very thing I fear.

Kabbalah is all about change. It isn't about being proud of our good qualities: the wisdom is about transforming our darkness into light.

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

Let go of yesterday. Let today be a new beginning and be the best that you can, and you'll get to where God wants you to be.

Allow God to be as creative with you as He is with each of us.

All you can do is create a space for transformation to happen, for grace and love to enter.

Everything that happens to me can help me along in my Christian life.

You, too, can be carved anew by the details of your devotion.

By all means rid yourself of an impoverished faith.

Growth is a detox process, as our weakest, darkest places are sucked up to the surface in order to be released...often, it is not a change in partners but rather a change in perception that delivers us to the love we seek.

You can change. You can 'come unto Christ, and be perfected in him.'

If you want God to do something new in you, you cannot keep doing the same old thing. You have to do something different. And if you do, God will create new capacities within you. There will be new gifts and new revelations. But you've got to pray the price. You'll get out of this what you put into it.

Prayer frees us to be controlled by God. To pray is to change. There is no greater liberating force in the Christian life than prayer. To enter the gaze of the Holy is never to be the same. To bathe in the Light in quiet wonder and glad surrender is to be slowly, permanently transformed. There is a richer inward orientation, a deep hunger for communion. We feel as if we are being taken over by a new control Center, and so we are.

Religion is not about accepting twenty impossible propositions before breakfast, but about doing things that change you. It is a moral aesthetic, an ethical alchemy. If you behave in a certain way, you will be transformed. The myths and laws of religion are not true because they they conform to some metaphysical, scientific or historical reality but because they are life enhancing. They tell you how human nature functions, but you will not discover their truth unless you apply these myths and doctrines to your own life and put them into practice.

Religion is not about accepting twenty impossible propositions before breakfast, but about doing things that change you. It is a moral aesthetic, an ethical alchemy. If you behave in a certain way, you will be transformed.

Transformations is the word. We can do the work of transformation only in the present moment

God desires to change us from the inside out. Renewing our minds, starving our self-destructive tendencies, and teaching us to form new habits.