Quotes About Transformation

Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood.

In Calvinism and sectarianism man became more and more transformed into an abstract moral subject, as in Descartes he was considered an epistemological subject.

Everywhere men have unlocked the prisoners within, and from under the disguising skins the apes have leapt joyfully out.

There is nothing attractive about the gospel to the natural man; the only man who finds the gospel attractive is the man who is convicted of sin.

We have to keep letting go, and slowly and surely the great full life of God will invade us in every part, and men will take knowledge of us that we have been with Jesus.

How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

Wherever a man comes, there comes revolution. The old is for slaves.

Every man contemplates an angel in his future self.

Is it easier for a man to live his life again as a fish, than to accept the wonder of being human? So alone, so frightened, so wanting for what we are afraid to give tongue to.

Rejoice that man is hurled, From change to change unceasingly, His soul's wings never furled!

I didn't know the right names for anything at first, but I knew what knocked me out. Changes... man I dug.

I also admit, that there are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits which are not good till they are rotten.

Beloved Pan and all ye other gods who haunt this place, give me beauty in the inward soul; and may the outward and the inward man be one.

Man is not constituted to take pleasure in the same things always.

A man who can't bear to share his habits is a man who needs to quit them.

I went to the Westminster College for Men in Missouri, which is what it was called back then, and transferred to the University of Denver where I ultimately got my degree.

As iron put into the fire loseth its rust and becometh clearly red-hot, so he that wholly turneth himself unto God puts off all slothfulness, and is transformed into a new man.

The times that tried men's souls are over-and the greatest and completest revolution the world ever knew, gloriously and happily accomplished.

Poor Knight! he really had two periods, the firsta dull man writing broken English, the seconda broken man writing dull English.

A man cannot sleep in his cradle: whatever is useful must in the nature of life become useless.

Sin is not taken out of man, as Eve was out of Adam, by putting him to sleep.

Man, as we know him, is a poor creature; he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right direction.

I felt the exultancy of a man just released from slavery and ready to set the universe on fire.

For the uniqueness of man lies in his capacity for self-transcendence.