Quotes About Transformation

greatest need of collective humanity—is renovation of our heart.

New Testament passages make plain that this kingdom is not something to be "accepted" now and enjoyed later, but something to be entered now (Matt. 5:20; 18:3; John 3:3, 5). It is something that already has flesh-and-blood citizens (John 18:36; Phil. 3:20) who have been transformed into it (Col. 1:13) and are fellow workers in it (Col. 4:11).

A human figure approaching, filling itself in slowly, putting on age and sex and race, like items of clothing, till she's looking at a black boy, also thirteen years old, wearing ragged shorts and T-shirt, broken takkies on his feet.

A human figure approaching, filling itself in slowly, putting on age and sex and race, like items of clothing

We are not machines that can be repaired through a series of steps—we are relational beings who are transformed by the mystery of relationship.

from chapter 3, What Makes A Good Story?) Our willingness to hold dear the moments of past shalom prepares us to imagine a new and better day, and, even more to move toward that day with passion and purpose.

Repentance is an internal shift

God's passion is to rig the world so that we are compelled to deal with whatever blocks us from being like His glorious Son.

The act of tattooing one's skin was a tranformative declaration of power, an announcment to the world: I am in control of my own flesh.

Outside, in the newly fallen darkness, the world had been transformed. The sky had become a glistening tapestry of stars.

We are now perched on a strange cusp of history, a time when the world feels like it's been turned upside down, and nothing is quite as we imagined. But uncertainty is always a precursor to sweeping change; transformation is always preceded by upheaval and fear. I urge you to place your faith in the human capacity for creativity and love, because these two forces, when combined, possess the power to illuminate any darkness.

Nietzsche: "Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster.

Perception is transformed, and a new reality is born.

Human thought can literally transform the physical world .. we are the masters of our own universe

Outside the window, a bank of clouds appeared on the horizon, inching slowly across the sky, finally slipping across the Moon and blocking out its radiant light. As he clicked off his overhead light, he turned his eyes one last time to the heavens. Outside, in the newly fallen darkness, the world had been transformed. The sky had become a glistening tapestry of stars.

Human beings are evolving into something different," he declared. "We are becoming a hybrid species—a fusion of biology and technology.

Where we come from... is not nearly as startling as where we are going.

uncertainty is always a precursor to sweeping change; transformation is always preceded by upheaval and fear.

as she spoke, she watched the expressions on the faces go from incredulous shock, to hopeful belief, and finally to awestruck acceptance

I have witnessed people transform cancer cells into healthy cells simply by thinking about them. I have witnessed human minds affecting the physical world in myriad ways. And once you see that happen..once this becomes a part of your reality, then some of the miracles you read about become simply a matter of degree.

Sometimes you need to go up...to go down.

Until a man is nothing, God can make nothing out of him. Martin Luther

Everyday I create myself...

Everything decayed, the perfectly ordered crystal eventually turned into random particles of dust.