Changed into His Image Quotes

“God-loving people have no trouble loving God's law since His laws are reflections of His nature.”
― Jim Berg, Changed into His Image: God's Plan for Transforming Your Life

“Our Lord did not come to this planet, live a perfect life, and become a worthy atonement for the sins of the world so that those who become His children can merely be well adjusted, live morally upright lives, and enjoy personal happiness and success. He died to redeem us from the penalty and power of a sinful heart that keeps us from being useful servants of the living God.”
― Jim Berg, Changed into His Image: God's Plan for Transforming Your Life

“Meditation is not hard to understand. Anyone who knows how to worry knows how to meditate. Worriers are skilled in the meditation process but are meditating on the wrong kind of thoughts.”
― Jim Berg, Changed into His Image: God's Plan for Transforming Your Life

“Modern culture anesthetizes the mind while mainlining the soul with emotional experiences that keep the worldling believing he is really living.”
― Jim Berg, Changed into His Image: God's Plan for Transforming Your Life

“This is the real world, and only a believer walking in fellowship with His Creator and Redeemer can understand it. Everyone else is the world is experiencing a 'break with reality'.”
― Jim Berg, Changed into His Image: God's Plan for Transforming Your Life

“The fact is that if the Christian home, church, and school have done their job well and the student has learned well, he may be one of the few on the earth who understand the real world.”
― Jim Berg, Changed Into His Image

“Wisdom is not having God's perspective of the whole matter before us, but having God's perspective about what next response will honor Him while keeping us still usable to Him.”
― Jim Berg, Changed into His Image: God's Plan for Transforming Your Life

“God has created in man the desire for Himself and has offered Himself as the object of man's desire. He is the only One sufficient to fill the God-shaped hole within man's soul.”
― Jim Berg, Changed into His Image: God's Plan for Transforming Your Life

“She meditated upon a lie. This is the essence of temptation.”
― Jim Berg, Changed Into His Image

“The important lesson here is that wisdom is not having God’s perspective of the whole matter before us, but having God’s perspective about what next response will honor Him while keeping us still usable to Him.”
― Jim Berg, Changed Into His Image

“A believer who has been giving in to the pull of his sinful heart never learns the extent of its power over him until he begins to do right. It is very much like the experience of one who is rowing a canoe. As long as he is going with the current, he has no idea how strong the current really is. Only when he decides to turn his canoe around and start rowing against the current does he experience its true strength.”
― Jim Berg, Changed into His Image: God's Plan for Transforming Your Life

“The Christopher Columbus Aware: This award goes to those who, like good old Chris, when they set out to do something, don't know where they are going; neither do they know how to get there. When they arrive, they don't know where they are, and when they return, they don't know where they've been.”
― Jim Berg, Changed into His Image: God's Plan for Transforming Your Life

“Dr. Bob Jones, Sr. observed, "The Devil did not tempt Adam and Eve to steal, to lie, to kill, to commit adultery; he tempted them to live independently of God.”
― Jim Berg, Changed into His Image: God's Plan for Transforming Your Life

“How frequently do we rush through our day making decision after decision, touching lives in this way or that, with no thought of what corruption has tainted those decisions?”
― Jim Berg, Changed Into His Image

“A man who is not in his proper place of reverence for and submission to God cannot be wise.”
― Jim Berg, Changed into His Image: God's Plan for Transforming Your Life

“Any attempt to produce love, joy, peace, endurance, and so forth apart from the Spirit of God is reliance upon strategies that are in competition with God. Management”
― Jim Berg, Changed Into His Image

“Without a passion to disciple believers to Christlikeness through the ministries of the church, the church will focus merely on perpetuating its programs, and the sheep will grow sickly and unfruitful.”
― Jim Berg, Changed Into His Image

“Sadly, the goal of many Christian parents is merely “to raise a good kid.” Through moral training and consistent discipline, they might even rear a child of whom they are proud. He may never cause them any real heartache but still not be useful to Christ. His materialism, impatience, impulsiveness, anxiety, stubbornness, or any other fleshly attitudes and actions can disqualify him from usefulness to Christ. In that case, the biblical parenting goal has not been reached, even though the child never got into serious trouble or never seriously embarrassed his parents.”
― Jim Berg, Changed Into His Image

“Don’t miss the heart issues when dealing with the surface problems!”
― Jim Berg, Changed Into His Image

“God is fully aware of and has authorized every rebuke and every correction that comes into the life of a believer. It is truly God who “worketh in [us] both to will and to do of his good pleasure” (Phil. 2:13), and even when others “thought evil against [us]; . . . God meant it unto good” (Gen. 50:20).”
― Jim Berg, Changed Into His Image

“Reality (i.e., the truth) is that there is a God in heaven. Reality is that He made us and we are accountable to Him. Reality is that this God has spoken and what He says matters--eternally. Reality is that without His salvation, we are doomed to eternal torment. Reality is that God's Son, Jesus Christ, has died for the sins of the world, that He has risen again, and that whoever believes on Him is given eternal life.”
― Jim Berg, Changed into His Image: God's Plan for Transforming Your Life