C. S. Lewis Quotes

Prayer is not about changing God, but being willing to let God change us.

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.

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.

I'm walking this walk, and my life has nothing to do with my perception of the world. It's all God! How do I function within His plan?

We need to understand that Christianity is about changing; it is not about a religion.

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

We have all had times...when we have seen things from God's standpoint and have wanted to stay there; but God will never allow us to stay there. ...[I]t is in the valley where we live for the glory of God.

I have learned God doesn't always change those people we want Him to change; instead, He often uses them to change us.

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

Prayer isn't where we change God, but He changes us. Instead of praying for OUR desires, let's pray He burden us with HIS.

I ascribe my change wholly to God.

Conversion does not make us perfect, but it does catapult us into a total experience of discipleship that affects - and infects - every sphere of our living.

When we genuinely believe that inner transformation is God's work and not ours, we can put to rest our passion to set others straight.

Like any other spiritual transformation or renewal, conversion must begin with an honest and a sincere admission that we need God's trans-formative power in our lives to achieve any real change, no matter the perspective from which we might begin.

I think one of the most rewarding experiences in life is to see people come to Christ and make lifestyle changes. When that happens, you definitely see God behind it. This year we've seen eight students make first-time decisions for Christ and when I see that, it's a great feeling. I'm really thankful that God is changing somebody, or sometimes he's changing me.

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

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

God wants the world to see what God can do with his purchased possessions. So he prunes you.

We may be sure that it is the love of God only that can make us come out of self. If His powerful hand did not sustain us, we should not know how to take the first step in that direction.

Nobody can convert you except God.

The Holy Spirit truly transforms us. With our cooperation, he also wants to transform the world we live in.

People are not prepared or able to rejoice in suffering unless they experience a massive biblical revolution of how they think and feel about the meaning of life. Human nature and American culture make it impossible to rejoice in suffering. This is a miracle in the human soul wrought by God through His Word.

Many souls fail to find God because they want a religion which will remake society without remaking themselves.

Oh thrice fools are we who like new-born princes weeping in the cradle know not that there is a kingdom before them then let our Lord's sweet hand square us and hammer us and strike off the knots of pride self-love and world-worship and infidelity that He may make us stones and pillars in His Father's house.

Truth is we must plant and we must water if we are to make progress with our children in holiness but only the Holy Spirit can change our children more and more into the likeness of Jesus. Our problem is we tend to depend upon our planting and watering rather than the Lord.