Quotes About Transformation

when you enter one of the world's great forests, you go in one side and you come out somewhere different. Sometimes, you go in and come out and you're different.

Cause change and lead; accept change and survive; resist change and die.

But no one is static. No one is not responding to the gospel. Everyone is moving further along one path or the other.

If God has drawn you to himself, then he has put you 'in Christ Jesus'.

Becoming a Christian doesn't just add something to the old you; it creates a new you. The risen Christ indwells you now, never to leave (Rom. 8:10–11).

We do not need more frightening punishments and more withering scoldings. We need the all-sufficiency of Jesus applied in rich measure to our deepest points of personal need.

Gospel doctrine – gospel culture = hypocrisy Gospel culture – gospel doctrine = fragility Gospel doctrine + gospel culture = power

Frog backward is GO RF.

He looks to me like he's turning into a... into a..." "Into a what?" "Into a giant bat!

He wanted to be content with an identity nicely chopped into pieces of varying lengths, but whose character was always similar, without dyeing it in autumnal colors, drenching it in April showers or mottling it with the instability of clouds.

We have come from all the countries of the world and are going to Saintes-Maries de la Mer. Nomads of the enigma, we gather there each year after having carried our mystery through ordinary countryside and fluid towns. Since we become transformed by our wanderings we are despised by those who stand still and retain a memory of giant serpents and metallic green.

What I was learning in the church was in sharp contrast to the theology of self-sacrificing love I wrestled with. It wasn't the willingness to bear pain, or carry the burdens of others that transformed life in the places where life had been harmed by violence. It was strong relationships among human beings who offered their presence to one another.

Zsofía Forgách had died in the spring, and since then I had noticed a change in him, a subtle shift from merriment to contemplation, from engaging in the games the men played to an almost womanish need to stand back and watch with an appraising eye, as if his companions were people he had never seen before and did not know how to place

I used to get butterflies when I'd see big dudes. I don't get butterflies no more.

There's a button that goes On and I'm On. And when I go On, there is almost no me; there is just a character who is doing all this.

Going blonde is like buying yourself a light bulb!

I was 5'3' when I was 15, but suddenly shot up to over 6 feet by the time I turned 18 and it was clear that an NBA career was up for grabs.

Since I moved to American Top Team, I feel like I'm the bird that got to escape from its cage, if you know that meaning.

When it is all said and done, everything is different once you get up into the cage.

I call it the birth vision - what we are called to accomplish. If we follow this calling, we help spiritualize the planet.

I think I've probably re-invented myself three or four times now, if that's what one calls it.

I was a loser, a bad kid, I wasn't really into anything, and then someone gave me a camera and I found that this was the thing I wanted to do.

I was in better shape when I went into boot camp than when I came out.

Camp is like this set-apart world where people go to try to change who they are, and yet change is really scary.