Quotes About Transformation

Dive into newness and discover another you.

Enormous gain includes enormous loss.

There are times you must risk unraveling the life you have in order to create the life God wants for you.

The way we view God does not change God, but it changes us and how we relate to him.

When the Church tries to embody the rule of God in the forms of earthly power it may achieve that power, but it is no longer a sign of the kingdom.

The gospel is not just the illustration (even the best illustration) of an idea. It is the story of actions by which the human situation is irreversibly changed.

Mission is not just something that the church does; it is something that is done by the Spirit, who

Mas a vida tinha lá seus mistérios e suas surpresas: nenhum de nós naquela casa voltaria a ser o mesmo de antes, nem os risos nunca mais soariam tão leves e límpidos, nunca mais aquelas vozes todas reunidas na mesma sala, nunca mais.

The same, yet not the same

It is said that springs of sweet, fresh water pool up amid the saltiness of the oceans, that the fairest Alpine flowers bloom in the wildest and most rugged mountain passes, and that the most magnificent psalms arose from the most profound agonies of the soul.

Yes, or no, is the hinge on which everything turns. Shall I yield and dishonor God, or shall I resist and triumph in His might? There is no possible compromise; for compromise with sin is itself the most insidious form of sin. No man can pass through these crises, and be after them what he was before. He has met God face to face, and he must either be the better or the worse for that experience.

The flash that struck your tree—no more To shelter thee—lets heaven's blue floor Shine where it never shone before. The cry wrung from your spirit's pain May echo on some far-off plain, And guide a wanderer home again. The blue sky of heaven is much larger than the dark clouds.

Today you see only your loss, but then you will see how God used it to break the evil chains that had begun to restrain you.

I loved fantasy, but I particularly loved the stories in which somebody got out of where they were and into somewhere better - as in the 'Chronicles Of Narnia ' 'The Wizard Of Oz ' 'The Phantom Tollbooth ' the 'Dungeons &amp Dragons' cartoon on Saturday morning in the '80s.

Most people carry that pain around inside them their whole lives, until they kill the pain by other means, or until it kills them. But you, my friends, you found another way: a way to use the pain. To burn it as fuel, for light and warmth. You have learned to break the world that has tried to break you.

He who completes a quest does not merely find something. He becomes something.

Magic doesn't come from talent, it comes from pain.

but a book that did what books always promised to do and never actually quite did: get you out, really out, of where you were and into somewhere better.

Sure, you can live out your dreams, but it'll only turn you into a monster.

You cannot study magic. You cannot learn it. You must ingest it. Digest it. You must merge with it. And it with you.

Becoming me was the greatest creative project of my life.

Literature interprets the world, but it's also shaped by that world, and we're living through one of the greatest economic and technological transformations since--well, since the early 18th century. The novel won't stay the same: it has always been exquisitely sensitive to newness, hence the name. It's about to renew itself again, into something cheaper, wilder, trashier, more democratic and more deliriously fertile than ever.

If my generation is remembered for anything, it will be as the last one that remembers the world before the Internet.

He was going to be a motherfucking Magician.