Quotes About Transformation

As I ponder my pilgrim's progress to Orthodoxy, however, I realize that I didn't make the trip alone, but in a two-seater. And I wasn't the one driving.

C. S. Lewis wrote that we think at first God is going to turn us into a "decent little cottage," but as deep, wrenching changes continue to be made, we realize that he is building a palace. "He intends to come and live in it himself.

Christ frees us, not just from the penalty for sin, but from sin itself (John 1:29).

Privatization is a bitter pill but it is a pill that will cure.

For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake. The feeling of the nation must be quickened; the conscience of the nation must be roused; the propriety of the nation must be startled; the hypocrisy of the nation must be exposed; and its crimes against God and man must be proclaimed and denounced.

It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.

One day, maybe not too long from now, the Russian empire will begin to crack. One day soon, the Romanians

Moonlight turns even the most civilised man into a primitive.

El claro de luna convierte al hombre más civilizado en un primitivo

Insofar as the theorist wins, therefore, by constructing an increasingly closed and terrifying machine, to that very degree he loses, since the critical capacity of his work is thereby paralysed, and the impulses of negation and revolt, not to speak of those of social transformation, are increasingly perceived as vain and trivial in the face of the model itself.

Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Nothing will ever be the same again.

feet, what do i need you for if i have wings to fly?

El arte más poderoso de la vida, es hacer del dolor un talismán que cura, una mariposa renace florecida en fiesta de colores.

I found my home in books, Where dreams were realised...

Give me the raw materials; the black holes, The cold floors and confusion of needles-as-thoughts That make me feel myself, Over any stupefying potions That would turn me into someone else.

Die Welt machte mich zu einer Hure, nun mache ich sie zu einem Bordell.

The world made a whore of me, now I'll make a whorehouse of the world

Revolutions demand enormous sacrifices and, at the same time, create a new need to change the world again.

Why do you like me more when I was prouder and wilder, more full of words, yet emptier?

Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.

You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.

The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.

Really, this people, only yesterday so intelligent and discerning, seem to have been overcome by a disease of the mind