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Quotes About Transformation

A man must shape himself to a new mark directly the old one goes to ground.
~ Ernest Shackleton
Jesus did not come into the world to make bad men good. He came into the world to make dead men live!
~ Leonard Ravenhill
My ancestors were Brahmins. They spent their lives in search of god. I am spending my life in search of man.
~ Muhammad Iqbal
God's idea is for us to become the Word of God, in such a way that men can read the Word by looking at our lives.
~ Chris Oyakhilome
Except a man be born again, he will wish one day he had never been born at all.
~ J. C. Ryle
It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
~ Saint Augustine
A man is a man, until that man finds a plan, a plan that makes that man, a new man
~ Dred Scott
He who was the Son of God became the Son of man, that man ... might become the son of God.
~ Irenaeus of Lyons
All education is the art of making men ethical (sittlich), of transforming the old Adam into the new Adam.
~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The greatest miracle that God can do today is to take an unholy man out of an unholy world, and make that man holy and put him back into that unholy world and keep him holy in it.
~ Leonard Ravenhill
When God saves a man, He is regenerating his heart, turns him into a new creature, and the evidence is this ... he will live like a new creature and he will confess Christ.
~ Paul Washer
God became man so that man might become a god.
~ Athanasius of Alexandria
The primitive magician, the medicine man or shaman is not only a sick man, he is above all, a sick man who has been cured, who has succeeded in curing himself.
~ Mircea Eliade
They say that when a man faces his destiny, the destiny ends and he becomes the man that he really is.
~ Mos Def
God never alters the robe of righteousness to fit the man. Rather He alters the man to fit the robe.
~ John Hagee
When a man is not satisfied with a house where he lives, he becomes an architect
~ Renzo Piano
We can accept God becoming Man to save Man, but not Man becoming God to save himself.
~ Vernon Howard
A new civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind men everywhere are trying to suppress it.
~ Alvin Toffler
One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
~ William Butler Yeats
It is not the business of the church to adapt Christ to men, but men to Christ.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
It is impossible for a man to be freed from the habit of sin before he hates it, just as it is impossible to receive forgiveness before confessing his trespasses.
~ Ignatius of Antioch
Liberation is a praxis: the action and reflection of men and women upon their world in order to transform it.
~ Paulo Freire
I'm not a naturally funny man. I find that I can only be funny, if I become someone else.
~ Rowan Atkinson
A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.
~ Tertullian