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Quotes About Transformation

Don't be lazy. Descend. You will find life in your heart. There you must live.
~ St Theophan the Recluse
Late have I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient and ever new! Late have I loved you! And, behold, you were within me, and I out of myself, and there I searched for you.
~ St. Augustine
For God loves saving, not condemning, and therefore He is patient with bad people, in order to make good people out of bad people.
~ St. Augustine
Narrow is the mansion of my soul; enlarge Thou it, that Thou mayest enter in.
~ St. Augustine
Behold, these things pass away, that others may replace them, and so this lower universe be completed by all his parts.
~ St. Augustine
The education of the human race, represented by the people of God, has advanced, like that of an individual, through certain epochs, or, as it were, ages, so that it might gradually rise from earthly to heavenly things, and from the visible to the invisible.
~ St. Augustine
What is that which gleams through me, and strikes my heart without hurting it; and I shudder and kindle? I shudder, inasmuch as I am unlike it; I kindle, inasmuch as I am like it.
~ St. Augustine
Passing hence from infancy, I came to boyhood, or rather it came to me, displacing infancy. Nor did that depart,—(for whither went it?)—and yet it was no more.
~ St. Augustine
Entrust Truth, whatsoever thou hast from the Truth, and thou shalt lose nothing; and thy decay shall bloom again, and all thy diseases be healed, and thy mortal parts be reformed and renewed, and bound around thee.
~ St. Augustine
We make a ladder of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
~ St. Augustine of Hippo
Zdepasto i grbavo deblo drveta nikada ne bi povjerovalo da može postati statua, zadivljuju?e umjetni?ko djelo, i nikada se ne bi podložilo dlijetu kipara, koji svojim genijem proni?e što sve može na?initi od tog debla
~ St. Ignatius Loyola
He who goes about to reform the world must begin with himself, or he loses his labor.
~ St. Ignatius of Loyola
To reach something good, it is useful to have gone astray.
~ St. Teresa of Avila
In order that love be fully satisfied, It is necessary that It lower Itself and that It lower Itself to nothingness and transform this nothingness into fire.
~ St. Therese of the Child Jesus
Such as into himself at last Eternity has changed him.
~ Stéphane Mallarmé
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. Gratitude turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow." ~ Innerspace
~ Stacey Chillemi
Before a small, unknown Methodist college was transformed into Duke University in the late 1920s, the city of Durham had been a backwater, known mostly for minor league baseball and cigarettes.
~ Stacy Horn
You have to let go of who you were to allow yourself to become who you are.
~ Stacy London
IF YOU WANT TO CREATE A CHANGE, you must challenge not only the models of Unreality, but the paradigms that underwrite them.
~ Stafford Beer
The brain is a furnace./ Is transformed and transforms.
~ Stan Rice
What you get by reaching your goals is not nearly as important as what you become by reaching them. —Zig Ziglar
~ Stan Toler
Although our inherent message must never change, our methods must.
~ Stan Toler
Coming to terms with the fear of death is conducive to healing, positive personality transformation, and consciousness evolution.
~ Stanislav Grof
I believe it is essential for our planetary future to develop tools that can change the consciousness which has created the crisis that we are in.
~ Stanislav Grof