Quotes About Transformation

It's an old story," Ryumin said. "Something like that actually happened once; I feel sure of it. But I filed off the serial numbers and made it my own.

All workable standards of wealth had vaporized, digitized, and vanished into a nonstop hurricane of electronic thin air.

The books we read in childhood don't exist anymore; they sailed off with the wind, leaving bare skeletons behind. Whoever still has in him the memory and marrow of childhood should rewrite these books as he experienced them.

It was difficult to anticipate—in these monsters with enormous, fantastic beaks which they opened wide immediately after birth, hissing greedily to show the backs of their throats, in these lizards with frail, naked bodies of hunchbacks—the future peacocks, pheasants, grouse or condors. Placed in cotton wool, in baskets, this dragon brood lifted blind, walleyed heads on thin necks, croaking voicelessly from their dumb throats.

The feeling of loathing had as yet no permanence or strength in the dog's soul. The newly awakened joy of life transformed every sensation into a great joke, into gaiety. Nimrod kept on barking, but the tone of it had changed imperceptibly, had become a parody of what it had been - an attempt to express the incredible wonder of that capital enterprise, life, so full of unexpected encounters, pleasures, and thrills.

Each of them has only one moment, a moment when it soars screaming like the phoenix, all its pages aflame. For that single moment we love them ever after, although they soon turn to ashes.

Can there be anything sadder than a human being changed into the rubber tube of an enema?

mostly unsuccessful attempts to teach grade-school children English using transformational grammar were made during the 1960s and early 1970s. Today it is taught mostly in colleges and graduate schools. Outside linguistics, transformational grammar is used mostly in computer-language-processing applications. It has an alien look and feel to traditionalists, but it can convey interesting insights into how the language works

hot-rodding lasted until the 1980s when, as Matthew Crawford observes, electronic engine management made everything under the bonnet 'a little opaque'. It is hard to rod a computer.

Art has now done for Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow something they could never achieve in life: it has taken a shark-eyed multiple murderer and his deluded girlfriend and transformed them into sympathetic characters, imbuing them with a cuddly likability they did not possess, and a cultural significance they do not deserve.

He who's not busy being born is busy dying." Tony

Grace does not preclude holiness, but makes it possible. Holiness springs from the fountain of grace.

Faith that God has made us new, has made us his, and has made us able are essential before we will experience God's victory over compelling and compulsive sin.

While we can will a change in behavior, we do not by an act of will change….

Dios nos transforma de adentro hacia afuera, dándonos corazones dispuestos y capaces de vivir para Él. Él no nos ama por lo que hacemos. Hacemos lo que Él ama porque amamos a Aquel que nos ama a pesar de nuestro comportamiento. Ya que nunca nos dejará, ni siquiera cuando le fallemos, nunca desearemos fallarle (Ro 5:10; Heb 13:5).

Spiritual change is more a consequence of what our hearts love than of what our hands do.

When we experience difficulty, we are to understand that it is, at least in part, God's process of making us what he wants us to be.

The efficacy of the truths in God's message rather than any virtue in the messenger transforms hearts.

Lo que transforma corazones no es la capacidad del mensajero, sino la eficacia de la verdad de Dios.

Repentance is not about earning grace but entering it; not about quenching his wrath but quieting the accusations of our hearts; not about unlocking his mercy but releasing our sin-sick sorrow to the Savior, who already rejoices to receive it.

The identity I tried to establish by obedience to the Law is dead, the life Jesus lived to fulfill the Law is mine.

Repentance is not a turning from one category of works to another; rather it is a turning from human works entirely to God.

It's amazing how things could change so quickly, in the blink of an eye. Maybe more miracles awaited on the horizon.

Red will be made white Darkness shall become light Faith will be made sight Squire shall become knight