Sue Monk Kidd Quotes

Many talk much, and indeed well, of what Christ has done for us: but how little is spoken of what he is to do in us! and yet all that he has done for us is in reference to what he is to do in us.

Alas! Much has been done of late to promote the production of dwarfish Christians. Poor, sickly believers turn the church into an hospital, rather than an army. Oh, to have a church built up with the deep godliness of people who know the Lord in their very hearts, and will seek to follow the Lamb wherever he goes!

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.

God does sometimes change our trying circumstances. But more often, He doesn't - because He wants to change us.

You cannot force spiritual things. A testimony is not thrust upon you; it grows. And a testimony is a testimony, and it should be respected, whether it is small or large. We become taller in our testimony like we grow in physical stature and hardly know it is happening, because it comes by growth.

Becoming Christlike is a lifetime pursuit and very often involves growth and change that is slow, almost imperceptible.

The question isn't if someone will sign up for spiritual formation; it's just who and what our spirits will be formed by.

To me, growing into spiritual maturity is becoming less self-conscious and more God-conscious.

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

Spiritual formation is for everyone. Just as there is an 'outer you' that is being formed and shaped all the time, like it or not, by accident or on purpose, so there is an 'inner you.' You have a spirit.

As a child that is born into the world requires nourishment, so also the Christ that is born within is a babe and requires to be nourished to the full stature of manhood.

The tree has been always an allegory for spiritual growth.

It's great if someone has a road-to-Damascus experience, but I think that deep and lasting faith is a lifetime project, and includes a lot of homework.

We must become holy, not because we want to feel holy, but because Christ must be able to live his life fully in us.

Christians already? It seems to me that it takes a lifetime of work.

If your religion does not change you, then you had better change your religion.

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.

A simple Bible reader and sermon hearer who is full of the Holy Spirit will develop a far deeper acquaintance with his God and Savior than a more learned scholar who is content with being theologically correct.

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.

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

We know we can't be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.

The Bible was not given for our information but for our transformation.

To be honest, I didn't want to believe that Christianity could radically transform someone's character and values. It was much easier to raise doubts and manufacture outrageous objections that to consider the possibility that God actually could trigger a revolutionary turn-around in such a depraved and degenerate life.

...if God teaches us victory in Christ Jesus day by day, we live in the constant awareness of His greatness and His sufficiency. Hard lessons are often long-lasting lessons. Never forget that God is far more interested in our getting to know the Deliverer than simply being delivered.