Quotes About Transformation

If a man wishes to become a hero, then the serpent must first become a dragon: otherwise he lacks his proper enemy.

Salvation is not putting a man into heaven but putting heaven into a man.

In fact, once he is motivated no one can change more completely than the man who has been at the bottom. I call myself the best example of that.

Before God can use a man greatly he must wound him deeply.

Friends of my youth, a last adieu! haply some day we meet again; Yet ne'er the self-same men shall meet; the years shall make us other men.

Praying men stop sinning and sinning men stop praying.

The proper effect of the Eucharist is the transformation of man into God.

Sanctification is the real change in man from the sordidness of sin to the purity of God's image.

God does not redeem the personal man by death. He redeems himself by freeing himself from the personality of man.

Robert Redford used to be such a handsome man and now look at him: everything has dropped, expanded and turned a funny color.

When man wanted to make a machine that would walk he created the wheel, which does not resemble a leg.

Where sin had brought men, love brought the Saviour.

The man who is deeply discontented with himself is probably growing fast into the full likeness of Christ.

Enlightenment is not an attainment; it is a realization. And when you wake up, everything changes and nothing changes. If a blind man realizes that he can see, has the world changed?

Every man is received in heaven who receives heaven in himself while in the world, and he is excluded who does not.

If a man's mind becomes pure, his surroundings will also become pure.

Whatever be the qualities of the man with whom a woman is united according to the law, such qualities even she assumes, like a river, united with the ocean.

The world, an entity out of everything, was created by none of the gods or men, but was, is and will be eternally living fire, regularly becoming ignited and reg- ularly becoming extinguished.

There's no accounting for laws. Or the changes wrought by men and time.

For after years of living in a cage, a lion no longer even believes it is a lion . . . and a man no longer believes he is a man.

Men are angels born without wings, nothing could be nicer than to be born without wings and to make them grow.

We must begin to understand that the gospel deconstructs a man before it reconstructs him. First it teaches him he is entitled to nothing, and then it give him everything.

It wasn't just a matter of hiding what you really felt. If you hid your feelings well enough, it actually changed you. A

This is one of the most important moments in your life. Nothing will ever be the same. We might get rich. We might get killed. We might just have an adventure or lean something. But we have been changed. We are standing close the Heraclitean fire, feeling its heat on our faces.