Quotes About Transformation

I am you might say, chemically altered.

Exactly, what form this alteration has taken. I will never know. I don't feel sedated, jittery or drugged. I simply feel normal-as if I had been driving a car all these years with the parking brake on, and now it is off. I feel as if the real me has returned, perhaps all the way from childhood, where she lived before The Beast arrived.

Into the winter's gray delight, Into the summer's golden dream, Holy and high and impartial, Death, the mother of Life, Mingles all men for ever.

I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth.

I was a sunburnt pagan now. I felt privy to mysteries.

Magicians are not made, they make themselves.

You afoot, the old man said. I knowed your walk the minute I seen you. You always walked like you had the world in your hip pocket. You ain't though, have you? Last time I seen you you was in a fine car. You had big plans.

We look forward to the time when the power to love will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.

Asked about China, he marvels at its economic transformation, but laments that too many Chinese "like to gamble, and they actually believe in luck. Now, that is stupid. What you don't want to believe in is luck. You want to believe in odds.

We will see that our new attitude toward liquor has been given to us without any thought or effort on our part. It just comes! That is the miracle of it.

When thou art come to thyself to own and blush at the brutish ignorance of thy mind, thou art fit to be admitted into Christ's school. If

This is thy birth-day; thou wert before, but beganst to live when Christ began to live in thee. The

God brings his grace into the heart by conquest.

In a word, when thou wert made a holy righteous person, then did God begin heaven in thy soul.

The word of God hath the power of conversion, which none but God—who is the 'God of all grace'—can produce.

The state of unregeneracy is a state of impotency.

So in the Christian there are many graces, but one new creature.

You see when a soul comes over from Satan's quarters unto Christ, and has but once the experience of that sweetness which is in his service, there is no getting him back to his old drudgery; as

It is faith stills the storm which sin had raised—faith that changed his doleful note into joy and gladness.

He was a man of excitable and fiery nature; but through his high-discipline he converted the fire into a central glow and motive force of life, instead of permitting it to waste itself in useless passion.

We have a name for the Second Coming but none for a second coming.

The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.

Jesus didn't die as a frustrated failed revolutionary. His death was the revolution.

We are right to trust descriptions of Jesus given by those most disrupted by Jesus.