Changed Life

H. H. Kramer quotes a saying of J. C. Blumhardt: “Every Christian needs two conversions: first to Christ and then to the world”.

Reverend Daniel Jenkins: Beyond Religion

Changed Life

I think it is a very poor kind of holiness that does not make us care for others.

Andrew Bonar: Heavenly Springs

Changed Life

A believer is not very holy if he is not very kind.

Andrew Bonar: Heavenly Springs

Changed Life

Robinson wrote to Bolivar. “Only understand that to make a new republic one must first make a new people.”

Samuel Robinson attributed by J. B. Trend: Bolivar and the
Independence of Spanish America

Changed Life

“I felt I did trust in Christ, Christ alone for salvation; and an assurance was given me that he had taken away my sins, even mine, and saved me from the law of sin and death.” Wesley at once began to pray earnestly for his enemies and publicly testified to all present what he now felt.

John Wesley; quoted by John Telford, Life of John Wesley

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The only conceivable way of bringing about a reconstruction of our world is first of all to become new men under the old circumstances.

Albert Schweitzer

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Society can never be greatly improved until such time as most of its members choose to become theocentric saints.

Aldous Huxley: Grey Eminence

Changed Life

For the radical and permanent transformation of personality only one effective method has been discovered – that of the mystics. It is a difficult method demanding from those who undertake it a great deal more patience, resolution, self-abnegation and awareness than most people are prepared to give.

Aldous Huxley: Grey Eminence