Quotes About Transformation

Reality is not protected or defended by laws, proclamations, ukases, cannons and armadas. Reality is that which is sprouting all the time out of death and disintegration.

One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.

The prisoner is not the one who has committed a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over.

You don't think your way into a new kind of living. You live your way into a new kind of thinking.

The Protestant Reformation did not merely seek to cleanse the church and deliver it from doctrinal errors, but it also sought the restoration of the whole of life.

Christ has redeemed the cultural agents, thus transforming culture also.

I am an optimist because I want to change things for the better and I know that blood has to be spilled and disharmony and cruelty are necessary to do that.

I have always thought that change you can see and feel is best.

Best not to mix the past with the present. The present paints the past with gold. The past paints the present with lead.

After... The seas have dried out The trains have come to a shrieking holt The hounds of the abyss cease to howl The prisons have closed their doors The pigs have no one to arrest except themselves The drugs no longer have an effect When it's all over All I'll remember is you

One day, I stopped hating. I ceased all meaningless activity. I completed the circle. I Set my sights straight. Like an Arrow I flew. I stopped acting. I got tired of playing with you. Random violence and destruction Because my reason for living, my out, My excuse. What is your excuse? Destruction. Without hate, without fear, Without judgement. I am no better Than you. No-one knows this better Than I do. I just got tired of playing Parlor Games.

You'll never know that just sitting across a room full of people, I have transformed you into a goddess. A destroyer of despair.

The material you work with is that which you will come to resemble. That which you work against will always work against you, including yourself.

You used to frustrate me with your shallow embrace Now you don't make me feel anything

I have come to the idea of rising below and letting the circle run its course. I will no longer fight the wheel inside me. Now I understand the strength of succumbing to the storm, joining the maelstrom, finding power in its turmoil.

Soldier from Space. Soldier of a different kind. Soldier of a different mind, from the dark and into light, then back again.

Sometimes I feel like going down to the recycling plant. Turning myself in, jumping into the inferno, getting melted down, coming out again as someone else. Scrap metal man.

The greatest masterpieces were once only pigments on a palette.

One has to kill a few of one's natural selves to let the rest grow — a very painful slaughter of innocents.

Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.

When you offer yourself to God as His servant, He first expects to shape you into the instrument of His choosing. He will always work in you before He works through you.

Ezekiel 36:26: "I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will remove your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.

Spring is a true reconstructionist.

As long as habit and routine dictate the pattern of living, new dimensions of the soul will not emerge.