Quotes About Transformation

Maybe becoming a monster is a sign of strength.

How far we've come, Jeff," Brian whispered to the cold, wet streets. "How far the geeky boys have come.

You could become anyone, including your real self.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan once quipped "If you want to build a great city, create a great university and wait 200 years."11

The most visible joy can only reveal itself to us when we've transformed it, within.

In the difficult are the friendly forces, the hands that work on us.

We're never single-minded, unperplexed, like migratory birds.

Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.

And I do believe that the way to change a society, to uplift people - not just their spirit, but to uplift their society and economic base - is through education.

Once we learn to tap into our inner resources, we can experience a profound transformation that can enrich all areas of our life – personal relations; physical, mental, and emotional health; professional work; spiritual growth and the attainment of our life's goals.

Rajiv Chandrasekaran

Daily Tribune, 5 August 1853: England has to fulfil a double mission in India, one destructive, the other regenerating—the annihilation of old Asiatic society, and laying the material foundations of Western society in Asia.

Christians should be ready for a change because Jesus was the greatest changer in history.

The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.

Here Tolkien states, in indirect form, one of the deepest of Christian truths: all love that is not ordered to the love of God turns into hatred.

Perhaps to lose a sense of where you are implies the danger of losing a sense of who you are.

Those who generate fog are Wizards of Oz hoping desperately that nobody pulls the curtain to reveal a trembling little writer behind it. This seldom happens. Readers who dare to point out that incomprehensible writing can't be comprehended risk being told that the problem is theirs.

In brief, the purgative stage or way includes the initial phases of the spiritual life, including coming to conversion, turning away from sin, bringing one's life into conformity with the moral law, initiating the habit of prayer and the practices of piety, and maintaining a relatively stable life in the Church. (The

Teresa witnesses to the fact that even if we are not fully attentive in our prayer, little by little, even imperfect prayer will change us. Simply "showing up" for prayer time evidences our desire to be with the Lord. Even though sometimes it seems that we are more there physically than spiritually, our desire allows Him to draw us closer.7

When there is union of love, the image of the Beloved is so sketched in the will, and drawn so intimately and vividly, that it is true to say that the Beloved lives in the lover and the lover in the Beloved. Love produces such likeness in this transformation of lovers that one can say each is the other and both are one.

As we dispose ourselves for union by turning from sin and from all inordinate attachments as best we can, and as we focus our lives on God, the Lord by degrees gives us graces in prayer such as Teresa has been describing, which help to bring about the transformation.

Much has to change in us in order to make us capable of deep union with God. The wounds of both original sin and our personal sins are deep and need to be healed and transformed in a process that has its necessarily painful moments. The pain of purification is called by John of the Cross the "dark night." It is important not to be surprised by the painful moments of our transformation but to know that they're a necessary and blessed part of the whole process.

Real birthdays are not annual affairs. Real birthdays are the days when we have a new birth.

We haven't been in Afghanistan for ten years. We've been in Afghanistan one year, ten times.