Quotes About Transformation

Once, poets were magicians. Poets were strong, stronger than warriors or kings — stronger than old hapless gods. And they will be strong once again.

When all hopes are lost, only then does reality acquire that sharp focus that defines who we are and what we have become.

Perhaps, but this Awakening felt very different from those in the past. A peculiar sensation seemed to spread throughout his body, propelled by the very beating of his heart. Within his veins, lycan blood mixed with his own, merging in an unexpected alchemical reaction. He felt a change come over him, a fundamental transformation in his very nature. Power such as he had never known surged through his veins. His eyes snapped open, revealing a pair of jet-black orbs. Hybrid eyes.

There is a prison," Alfred began grimly, "in a more ancient part of the world. A pit where men are thrown to suffer and die. But sometimes a man rises from that darkness. Sometimes the pit sends something back.

Where was the line? Between self-transformation so great as to turn a longing for death into childlike wonder … and death itself, and the handing on of the joys and burdens he could no longer shoulder to someone new?

I look up at her. "Let's not make a big deal of this. It's time for me to become a machine.

Recalculate. Then show me sunrise again.

walked a few paces away from her, then turned his whole body towards the south; in this flat desert, it wasn't impractical to triple his axial span. He

And they did it with something that is basicly worthless in our society - pennies. But overseas, pennies can move mountains

The road to Easter goes through Good Friday. The road to new life goes through the death of the old. The road to resurrection goes through crucifixion. Jesus calls us to walk that road, the road he walked.

Jesus chose the disciples for what they would become, not for what they were at the time of their call.

Jesus' thought was, "Give me teachable, loyal people, and watch me change the world.

What are the elements of transparent trust that will allow us to move gradually into the deep waters of transformation? • Affirming one another through encouragement • Walking with one another through difficult times • Being a reflective listener who assists another to hear God's guidance in life's complexities • Confessing our sins to one another that we may be healed

Galatians 5:16-23 reminds us of Jesus' description of our relationship to him as branches connected to a vine (John 15:1-11).

Scripture memorization has a number of benefits. We become what we place our minds on.

Without question, the setting where I have experienced the most accelerated transformation in the lives of believers has been in triads, or small reproducible discipleship groups.

John Kotter in Leading Change says that a primary reason why change does not occur is that there is no sense of urgency.

The scriptural model for growing disciples is through relationships. Jesus called the Twelve to "be with him" (Mark 3:14), for their lives would be transformed through personal association.

We have transformed the gospel into the benefits we receive from Jesus rather than the call to be conformed to the life of Jesus. We want abundance without obedience.

It's an odd question actually, because your body has never been a permanent thing – it is an illusion.

What we resist pursues us. What we accept transforms us.

A baby takes everything from you. Everything you were before." She waved a hand, a ghostly flicker in the blackness. "Your time. Your figure. Your looks. They take your sleep until you don't know how to function.

A baby takes everything from you. Everything you were before." She waved a hand, a ghostly flicker in the blackness. "Your time. Your figure. Your looks. They take your sleep until you don't know how to function. But all that is just a disguise for the most important thing they take from you: your selfishness. And that's the true gift of parenthood.

That possibility suggests that we are part of a much greater system of many realities, within realities, within other realities. In this system, our world could be considered a shadow or a projection of events that are happening in a deeper, underlying reality. What we see as our universe is really us—our individual and collective minds—transforming the possibilities of the deeper realms into physical reality.