“But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.” ~ 2 Corinthians 3:18
“The light of Christ is powerfully transformative of its subjects, changing the man, in whom it is, into the same image, from glory to glory. But common light leaves the heart as dead, as carnal and sensual, as if no light at all were in it.”
“In a word, All saving light endears Jesus Christ to the soul; and as it could not value him before it saw him, so when once he appears to the soul in his own light, he is appreciated and endeared unspeakably: then none but Christ; all is but dung, that he may win Christ: none in heaven but him, nor in earth desirable in comparison of him. But no such effect flows from natural common knowledge.” ~ John Flavel
*Taken from The Works of John Flavel, Volume 1
