Quotes About Transformation

Your tests don't have to define you. Your compatibility doesn't have to be a ceiling over which your relationship can never rise. Your past hurts don't have to constitute the first steps in a journey toward divorce court. We worship, serve, and are empowered by a supernatural God who can lift us above our scientific limitations and create something special out of something very ordinary. These tests don't account for the power of a magnificent obsession.

We realize it's not about what we get out of our marriage but about what we become in our marriage.

Incarnational spirituality — the living, reigning, and ascended Jesus living through us and transforming us into different people — does not exist to uphold a few rules but rather speaks of a process that creates an entirely new person who sees with new eyes, feels with a new heart, hears with renewed ears, and lives with a new passion. It is, I believe, the only life worth living.

Neurologists tell us a startling truth that has major implications for spiritual formation: Our choices and experience shape our brain, both literally and physiologically. What we choose cognitively helps make us into who we are.

Christianity doesn't leave us in an apathetic stupor; it raises us and our relationships from the dead! It pours zest and strength and purpose into an otherwise wasted life.

Franciscan priest Richard Rohr writes, "I am most quoted for this line: 'If you do not transform your pain, you will always transmit it.' Always someone else has to suffer because I don't know how to suffer; that is what it comes down to.

Honesty demands directness: God has to discipline us to transform us.

If we accept that the love of praise is a sin, that the lust to be known and appreciated by others is not just a fool's errand...but perhaps evidence of a heart focused on the wrong things, our marriages will be transformed.

becoming fixated on something you can't now undo. That's what forgiveness and grace are for — a fresh start, a new beginning. God offers grace precisely for the reason that he wants to forgive us. He is eager to forgive us so we can start afresh and live a new meaningful life in service to him from this point on.

We realize it's not about what we get out of our marriage but about what we become in our marriage.

would not consider any spirituality worthwhile that wants to walk in sweetness and ease and run from the imitation of Christ."3

We conceal, but God wants to heal, and to do that, He must first expose.

In case you've never thought about it, a woman's body changes much more rapidly than her character does.

The paradox is that sometimes you have to get worse before you get better.

Accept your present state. Create your desired state. Take action through goal setting.

what the Course is teaching is that you can undo the ego that's in your mind, have the Holy Spirit heal all of your unconscious guilt, and be free. The fastest way to do that is to change the way you look at other people, events, and situations. It also teaches you how to do that.

Like the caterpillar becomes the butterfly, you will become Christ — and be one with all of true Creation.

All this new stuff goes on top turn it over, turn it over wait and water down from the dark bottom turn it inside out let it spread through Sift down even. Watch it sprout. A mind like compost.

The other side of the "sacred" is the sight of your beloved in the underworld, dripping with maggots.

I drank that sentence and began to glow.

Dead, with my eyes wide open, I began a new life without a body. I had nothing to fear.   DOWNTOWN

The Gospel is the Wrecking Ball that blows up the minor fishing expeditions I plan in the pond of what I think I can control.

When two alien cultures meet, the stronger must transform the weaker with love or hate.     ââ'¬â€Damon Knight, "Stranger Station" (1956)

Within a few generations, all humans will be multisensory. They will experience not only the domain of space, time, matter, and duality that has been the totality of experience for most humans since the origin of humanity, but also nonphysical domains and dynamics that affect us and that we affect.