Quotes About Transformation

I'm changing, Daniel. I was drawn back to the city in spirit, and led the woman into the ancient land. She is a follower of mine. And yet an assassin.

He is coming into bloom, remembering himself, no longer denying who and what he is.

They were the poorest, grubbiest people I had even seen, and yet, despite their obvious poverty, they were not at all melancholy or apathetic. They burgeoned like a colony of ants in the gargantuan skeleton of the past, shifting rubbish, recycling everything, conjuring a new art from the bones.

He felt different now, as if a new personality had come to inhabit his body.

You are different, Daniel, but then this is a changed world to the one where we once walked as friends.

The Hanged One is waiting for you! He is hungry for you, Taziel!

She wished for what would happen to be something incredible and life-changing. She wished for it to be important.

It's not about finding ways to avoid God's judgment and feeling like a failure if you don't do everything perfectly. It's about fully experiencing God's love and letting it perfect you. It's not about being somebody you are not. It's about becoming who you really are.

The most important thing we can pray about for others is that they will know God better and that He will help them understand His will, grow in spiritual wisdom, and live lives that honor Him. We can pray that they will become more like Him and bear the fruit of His Spirit.

If you ever seem to be sliding back into the very thing you've already been set free of, don't even waste time getting discouraged. Often what seems like the same old thing coming back again may be a new layer surfacing that needs to come off. You're not going backwards—you are going deeper.

There is no neutral position in the Lord. You are either becoming more like Christ every day or you're becoming less like Him. That's because whether you realize it or not, you're never standing still.

I am not what I ought to be, I am not what I want to be, I am not what I hope to be; But by the grace of God I am not what I was.1

Yesterday's deconstructions are often tomorrow's orthodox clichés.

A book is a little thing that is bigger on the inside, and makes the reader bigger inside as well, a Tardis of ink and glue and paper and words.

If you don't change, reality in the end forces that change upon you.

The new idea is here: Control is very old-fashioned, and our societies will change gradually as people come to see that the old system just doesn't work. I

We are sorry for the inconvenience, but this is a revolution.

As the writer and scientist Isaac Asimov put it: 'Life is pleasant, death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

I realised that day that when the animation of the person we were is stripped out of the vessel we have used to pilot our way through life, it leaves little more than an echo or a shadow in the physical world.

What you're thinking of as the end of the story now, is only the end of the chapter.

Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who

Freedom, he was learning, was not a set point, like the temperature at which water freezes, but something mutable, a moving target.

Things happen and you change directions

I swear it's true. If I lie to you, may I be changed into a sofa belonging to a fat family addicted to daytime TV and baked beans." (Fred to Jess)