Quotes About Transformation

To realize that I had been living a lie, to realize that I was unsatisfied and I would never be satisfied until I came to Jesus was so revolutionary to me that I wanted everyone to taste it. I wanted everyone to see how awesome God was.

Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.

I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.

Usually the first problems you solve with the new paradigm are the ones that were unsolvable with the old paradigm.

Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.

Giving shape to a painful experience is powerful because it helps us to see, first, how we got through it; second, how we can share it. The experience doesn't stay trapped within us, unspoken, curdling - instead, the art of arranging and transforming it reduces the burden. It no longer belongs to only you.

The phenomenon develops calmly, but it is invisible, unstoppable. One feels, one sees it born and grow steadily; and it is not in one's power to either hasten or slow it down.

People change. They get successful and change. They get unsuccessful and change.

Dropping 25 pounds was something I was unsure about. It seemed like a pointless adventure, in a way.

I was very unsure of myself when I was young and an ugly little beggar with protruding teeth, so I used to lie on them at night to try to straighten them.

There's no law of physics that says we have to be an unsustainable society - in fact, quite the opposite. The planet's ready to work with us if we're ready to think differently, but we do have to make that jump and start to do things in new ways.

One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.

A lot of the things that until now seemed unthinkable are starting to be thinkable.

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.

You can't have a physical transformation until you have a spiritual transformation.

It's funny how things change slowly, until the day we realize they've changed completely.

Acorns were good until bread was found.

Change always seems impossible until it's inevitable.

In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.

I was no one, nobody from Nowheresville, until I became a drag queen.

I feel ghostly unreal until I become somebody else again on the screen.

It is by letting the world go and coming unto Christ that we increasingly live as women of God.

When you give your heart to inviting people to come unto Christ, your heart will be changed. You will be doing His work for Him. You will find that He keeps His promise to be one with you in your service. You will come to know Him. And in time you will come to be like Him and 'be perfected in him.'