Quotes About Transformation

There is nothing under the moon that is not subject to change.

I can hardly believe this is the same man I saw kick a cripple not half an hour ago

Always remember that every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

Forgiveness has nothing to do with absolving a criminal of his crime. It has everything to do with relieving oneself of the burden of being a victim--letting go of the pain and transforming oneself from victim to survivor.

If Willie hadn't known the man working on the doghouse in the garage must be his father, he might not have recognized him. Dad's nose was red from the cold, and he was wearing a grease-streaked red-and-black-checked lumberman's jacket and a red flannel hat with floppy earflaps. He looked a lot more dignified in a business suit and tie, Willie thought.

Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth.

Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.

The son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God.

There are moments that define our existence, moments that, if we recognize them, become pivotal turning points in our life.

Nothing is the same afterward, is it? We carry on, as indeed we must, but we are never who we were." He

To leave the distracted masses to join the focused few, I'm arguing, is a transformative experience.

this thirty-day experiment

These changes crept up on us and happened fast, before we had a chance to step back and ask what we really wanted out of the rapid advances of the past decade. We added new technologies to the periphery of our experience for minor reasons, then woke one morning to discover that they had colonized the core of our daily life.

It was tentativeness, not boldness, that transformed Pardis's general mission into a specific success.

The goal is not to simply give yourself a break from technology, but to instead spark a permanent transformation of your digital life. The detoxing is merely a step that supports this transformation.

It follows that to embrace deep work in your own career, and to direct it toward cultivating your skill, is an effort that can transform a knowledge work job from a distracted, draining obligation into something satisfying—a portal to a world full of shining, wondrous things.

The rapid rise of communication and collaboration technologies has transformed many other formerly local markets into a similarly universal bazaar. The small company looking for a computer programmer or public relations consultant now has access to an international marketplace of talent in the same way that the advent of the record store allowed the small-town music fan to bypass local musicians to buy albums from the world's best bands.

the message at the core of this book: Working right trumps finding the right work—it's a simple idea, but it's also incredibly subversive, as it overturns decades of folk career advice all focused on the mystical value of passion. It wrenches us away from our daydreams of an overnight transformation into instant job bliss and provides instead a more sober way toward fulfillment.

The rapid rise of communication and collaboration technologies has transformed many other formerly local markets into a similarly universal bazaar. The

I'd seen this happen several times before, in different institutions, but it was no less remarkable on each occasion: the words were like the flow of water over coals, taking away crackling heat and leaving only a steaming whisper, a perhaps momentary but nonetheless effective remission from deep-burning fire.

You don't have to change to love me; loving me will change you.

Still, most people need more information on how to become conformed to the image of Christ than they do on how to be converted.

A single sermon is not likely to effect much change.

I will see you in another life when we are both cats.