Quotes About Transformation

As the Holy Spirit restores us, He trains our wills to choose thoughts, values and behaviors that bring Him praise.

she worked and prayed for the welfare of humans for over ten million years. Then she was transformed into a goddess whose only desire was to ease the world's pain.

As a matter of fact, yes," I lie. "I love classical piano. Beethoven and, uh…those other guys." He cocks an eyebrow. "Name two pieces." "Um…'Piano Man' by Billy Joel." "Oh, God." "And 'Tiny Dancer' by Elton John." He grins suddenly, and his face, which is already too nice of a face, transforms into gorgeous.

But why did you upgrade me?" "Because you're not a skinny dwarf." "Is that an insult?" "Is it? Would you like to be a skinny dwarf? Because even though you're acting like Grumpy—

Creative destruction.

You never realize it until you're pregnant, or holding your baby in your arms, but your heart, soul and peace of mind will never be yours again.

I could grow from that broken place and be better for it. A flower growing through a crack in the pavement, as it were.

That was how change came she supposed, in the quiet of things unspoken and truths unacknowledged. (The Great Alone)

When a monster stopped behaving like a monster, did it stop being a monster? Did it become something else?

I don't want any of this. I just want to be what I was before you showed up here and all hell broke loose. I want to be popular and dating the hottest guy in school. Now I'm none of those things, and I'm a human who has scary visions and don't know what to do about any of it.

Ah crap!" I instantly shooed away darkness and whatnot, so that I was solid, visible me again. "Sorry, Stevie Rae. I forgot I'd gone all Bram Stoker.

She comes back Through blood by blood She returns Cut deep now Like me Humanity saves her Will she save me?

I drank a lot when I was a teenager and I don't drink any more, because that's when I thought, you know, I'm gonna end up a car wreck.

Alaska isn't about who you were when you headed this way. It's about who you become.

She realized that the landscape of a woman's soul could change as quickly as a world at war.

All at once, it seemed, the leaves of cottonwood trees around the cabin turned golden and whispered to themselves, then curled into black flutes and floated to the ground in crispy, lacy heaps.

I thought change started from within." "Sometimes. Sometimes it's forced upon you.

Alaska didn't create character; it revealed it.

If she wasn't careful, she'd slide without a ripple into the gently flowing stream of her old life, pulled back under the current without a wimper of protest. Another housewife lost in the flow.

A searing, cleansing, enveloping love blew her heart into a million tiny pieces and reshaped it.

Show us your true colors, who you used to be.

Sometimes you have to turn the world upside down to see it right side up.

My pilgrim's progress has been to climb down a thousand ladders until I could finally reach out a hand of friendship to the little clod of earth that I am.

in reality only a change in the attitude of the individual can bring about a renewal in the spirit of nations. Everything begins with the individual.