Pope Benedict XVI Quotes

Sanctification consists of the daily realization that in Christ we have died, and in Christ we have been raised.

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

There is nothing we've done that can't be wiped clean by Christ.

I've been praying that we might have a spiritual awakening. But I think that becomes possible as individuals surrender their lives fresh and anew to Christ.

If any man be in Christ, he's a new preacher. The old things are passed away and all things become new.

There is absolutely no power in our human effort to live holy. It is only by His grace. And the result of receiving grace is we get better at living like Christ, which is something we all want, right?

We all sin. We all can change. We all can be reborn in Christ.

To pass from estrangement from God to be a son of God is the basic fact of conversion. That altered relationship with God gives you an altered relationship with yourself, with your brother man, with nature, with the universe.

The Lord's authorized servants repeatedly teach that one of the principal purposes of our mortal existence is to be spiritually changed and transformed through the Atonement of Jesus Christ.

The Methodists love your big sinners, as proper subjects to work upon.

My worldview, my philosophy, my attitudes, my relationships, my parenting, my marriage - everything has been transformed by my relationship with Christ.

A sinner can no more repent and believe without the Holy Spirit's aid than he can create a world.

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.

Besides the physical ordinance of baptism and the laying on of hands, one must be spiritually born again to gain exaltation and eternal life.

In the book of Colossians, it talks about that because of what Christ did, we are pure. We are without judgment on ourselves. And only through him can we do something like this.

When you turn your heart and your life over to Christ, when you accept Christ as the savior, it changes your heart.

I'm a born-again Christian, but that's not the coat that I wear. It's just how my heart's been changed.

When grace happens, we receive not a nice compliment from God but a new heart. Give your heart to Christ, and he returns the favor.

We are safe on the rock which is the Savior when we have yielded in faith in Him, have responded to the Holy Spirit's direction to keep the commandments long enough and faithfully enough that the power of the Atonement has changed our hearts.

All the muddy waters of my life cleared up when I gave myself to Christ.

When you choose to follow Christ, you choose to be changed.

The day we receive Jesus Christ as our Savior is one of the greatest days of our lives. Not only are our sins washed away, but God puts His Spirit inside of us and gives us new desires.

One encounter with Jesus Christ is enough to change you, instantly, forever.

Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.

I remember walking down the aisle, and I got down on my knees as a person who is so selfish, but when I rose back up the Lord had become the Master of my life.