Quotes About Transformation

more I have seen the count go out in his lizard fashion.

Las damas de honor alegran la vista de los que aguardan la llegada de la novia; pero cuando ésta aparece, pierden todo esplendor para los ojos deslumbrados.

The baby dove into the room, transforming grotesquely as it landed on the floorin a deft sumersault

Nothing is certain. Many ways lead to destruction. You will be tested beyond your capacity to endure. Should you survive the trials ahead, you will be a husband without a wife, a father without a son, a hero without a quest, and a king without a country. But take heart. Some must lose the way to find it. Some must be empty before they are full, weak before they are strong, and blind before they can see.

Laughing, Bracken threw his sword aside and extended a hand towards the wizard. To me, he said...The unicorn horn lept from the wizard's hand and streaked to Bracken, who caught it effortlessly. In his grasp the horn immediately transformed into a sword...

Not every change comes about peaceably, even changes that are for the best.

You see, he was to become the first man I fell in love with. Only, falling in love doesn't always mean rainbows and butterflies. This is the true story of my life and how love changed everything!

Like water, be gentle and strong. Be gentle enough to follow the natural paths of the earth and strong enough to rise up and reshape the world

Life is like a typographical error: we're constantly writing and rewriting things over each other.

Something is turning into nothing very quickly

Disintegration--I'm taking it in stride.

This was sending me out so much further than I had ever expected: a place beyond strength.

Disintegration—I'm taking it in stride.

To everyone, Jesus issues an invitation to abandon the story they will lose themselves in, and instead, to enter the story they will find themselves in.

When any sector of the church stops learning, God simply overflows the structures that are in the way and works outside them with those willing to learn.

Spiritual] Practices are not for know-it-alls. Practices are for those who feel the need for change, growth, development, learning. Practices are for disciples.

The life-and-death question for each of our churches and denominations may boil down to this: are we a club for the elite who pretend to have arrived or a school for disciples who are still on the way?

What if the growth of the new movement, the new humanity, the new social creation or construction depends on the old one losing its hegemony?

War is one of the hallmarks of the old humanity.)

Brian D. McLaren

Howard Thurman, one of America's greatest theologians said, "By some amazing but vastly creative spiritual insight the slave undertook the redemption of a religion that the master had profaned in his midst.

If I could seriously ponder ending my life, then I can do anything. I can change anything in my life. So instead of ending my life altogether, I'll end my life as I've been living it and start a new kind of life. I can now see a third alternative to the status quo and suicide.

An unexamined, status-quo Christianity is not worth perpetuating. I cannot and will not stay Christian if it means perpetuating Christianity's past history and current trajectory. The only way I can stay Christian is to do so as part of a creative movement forging a new kind of Christianity

Faith before doubt: it's about correct beliefs. Faith after doubt: it's about revolutionary love.