Quotes About Transformation

Brook, you don't sound like yourself." My reply came out of my mouth before I could choose it. "I am not the person I was three weeks ago and I will never be that person again." Surprised by my own response, I relayed it to my therapist who was helping me work through issues surrounding my brother's death. "Of course you're not," she said. "And one of the best things you can do for yourself is to know that you are a different person now.

Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or weak and at last some crisis shows what we have become.

In the communes, sir," he had said proudly, "you will find no churches. You see, religion is for the helpless. Here in China we are not helpless any more." ———

And yet,' she said gently, 'God hasn't come to a standstill.' Suddenly she laughed. 'I think you're like one of your own lumps of clay, Andy. God has a plan for you, and He's trying to get you into the centre of it, and you keep dodging and slithering away.' She turned her dark eyes on mine. 'How do you know? Maybe He wants to make you into something wonderful!

The most important discovery of my whole life is that one can take a little rough cabin and transform it into a palace just by flooding it with God.

Sometimes I consider myself there as a stone before a carver, whereof he is to make a statue; presenting myself thus before GOD, I desire Him to form His perfect image in my soul, and make me entirely like Himself.

Our sanctification does not depend upon changing what we do, but in doing for God's sake what we normally do for our own sake.

He said that our sanctification does not depend as much on changing our activities as it does on doing them for God rather than for ourselves.

He had noticed a tree stripped of its leaves. He realized that in a little while the leaves would return, and the flowers and fruit would appear.

It's time for us to stop playing religious games with God. It's time to get serious. It's no longer good enough just to "believe" in Jesus; we need to become His disciples. Churches should not be places where we come and get the water inside of us drained out. Rather, churches should be staging posts from where living water flows out into the communities and nations of the world.

Autumn wins you best by this its mute Appeal to sympathy for its decay.

Progress is The law of life: man is not Man as yet.

This is how I think of Mount Rainier, not as an icon of permanence but as a source of relentless change, a mountain forever falling.

Jesus picked up twelve men from the bottom ranks of business and forged them into an organisation that conquered the world.

When you're through changing, you're through.

When you are through changing, you are through.

Nothing is so powerful or so perfect that it cannot be transformed utterly by the miracle of another girl. Or another boy

I realized I had to leave or become an erased soul inside a physical shape pantomiming the motions of life.

Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

I woke up one morning with this song in my head, and the opening line of the song is, 'My name was Richard Nixon, only now I'm a girl.'

Change will come, whether we wish it to or not. To fight it is like fighting the sunrise. Better to say, 'Ah, welcome old friend. Here you are again.

Therapy is more about building new associations, making new, healthier default pathways. It is almost as if therapy is taking your two-lane dirt road and building a four-lane freeway alongside it. The old road stays, but you don't use it much anymore.

The spiritual teacher Gary Zukav has said, "When you find an addiction, do not be ashamed. Be joyful. You have found something that you have come to this Earth to heal. When you confront and heal an addiction, you are doing the deepest spiritual work that you can do on this Earth.

Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different. But we cannot move forward if we're still holding on to the pain of that past.