Quotes About Transformation

How many ideas have there been in the history of man which were unthinkable ten years before they appeared?

God's grace turns out men and women with a strong family likeness to Jesus Christ, not milksops.

The degree of blessing enjoyed by any man will correspond exactly with the completeness of God's victory over him.

Plain horse sense ought to tell us that anything that makes no change in the man who professes it makes no difference to God, either.

All to often, however, what she [the woman] does want is the man she hopes she will make out of the man she already has.

Just as with the man in the fairy tale who turned whatever he touched into gold, with me everything is turned into newspaper clamor.

Thou makest the man, O Sorrow!--yes, the whole man,--as the crucible gold.

Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace of affliction, and then beats them on His anvil into what frame He desires.

A child is not frightened at the thought of being patiently transmuted into an old man.

We have not yet seen what man can make of man.

There are three distinct comings of the Lord of which I know: His coming to men, His coming into men, and His coming against men.

Pouter, tumbler, and fantail are from the same source; The racer and hack may be traced to one Horse; So men were developed from monkeys of course, Which nobody can deny.

A man who has been in another world does not come back unchanged. One can't put the difference into words. When the man is a friend it may become painful: the old footing is not easy to recover.

The very shaping of history now outpaces the ability of men to orient themselves in accordance with cherished values.

A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake.

How little remains of the man I once was, save the memory of him! But remembering is only a new form of suffering.

Men's courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead," said Scrooge. "But if the courses be departed from, the ends will change.

Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.

A garden was the primitive prison, till man with Promethean felicity and boldness, luckily sinned himself out of it.

Love, in the sense of spontaneous, unreflective action, spells the death of the old man.

In the gospels the very first step a man must take is an act which radically affects his whole existence.

Treat a man like dirt-he produces flowers.

If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human sentiment.

Man has never been the same since God died.