Quotes About Transformation

Sanctification is about living in ways that are consistent with what we already are in Christ.

Our world is being shaken to its very foundations. Instead of offering great thoughts about God, the meaning of reality, and the gospel, there are evangelical churches that are offering only little therapeutic nostrums that are sweet but mostly worthless. One even wonders whether some current churchgoers might even be resistant were they to encounter a Christianity that is deep, costly, and demanding.

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Le sonrió, y Nathalie contestó a su sonrisa con otra sonrisa. Habían vuelto las sonrisas. Es curioso cómo a veces uno decide algo muy en serio, se dice que todo será así a partir de ahora, y basta un ínfimo gesto de los labios para quebrar la seguridad de una certeza que parecía casi eterna.

hacernos olvidar las dichas transformadas en desdichas es una bendición de la amnesia.

de conclusión: En mi obra de teatro, yo era todos los personajes. He aprendido a tirar por todos los caminos. Y así me convertí en mí misma. La

She must disappear for a time from the human surface, And sacrifice everything for this, To recreate herself from the depths of her world.

En mi obra de teatro, yo era todos los personajes. He aprendido a tirar por todos los caminos. Y así me convertí en mí misma.

Desde el principio supe que yo era un genio. Tenía en mí la dosis de sufrimiento necesaria para la formación del genio. No creo haber cambiado con la fama: son los otros los que cambiaron. Fue el mundo entero el que de pronto comprendió quién era yo.

The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.

He's turned his life around. He used to be depressed and miserable. Now he's miserable and depressed.

They had none of the modern things that we have today, and yet they turned their world upside down,

There is nothing more important in life than learning to love and be loved. Jesus elevated love as the goal of spiritual transformation. Psychoanalysts consider it the capstone of psychological growth. Giving and receiving love is at the heart of being human. It is our raison d'être.

Only suffering and struggle, and all the dark experiences that come with them, will grow a soul big enough to hold our life. This happens when we ground ourselves in the blood, sweat, and tears of ordinary life.

Pilgrimage always involves both an exterior and interior journey. Any travel can be a pilgrimage, regardless of the destination or whether or not there even is a destination. The difference between a pilgrim and a tourist is the intention of attention and openness to God. This transforms a trip into a pilgrimage, and the result is that the self that sets out on pilgrimage will not be the same as the self that returns.

Spiritual disciplines should always be means to spiritual ends, never ends in themselves. They are places of meeting God that do not have value in and of themselves. To treat them as if they did is to develop a spirituality that is external, self-energized and legalistic. Genuine Christian spirituality places the priority on inner transformation, not outward routines.

The life Jesus came to bring is a life that does not depend on willpower. It flows out of the Spirit of God, energizing and transforming our spirit. It's a life based on transfusion- God's Spirit transfusing my spirit, God's deepest desires, longings and dreams becoming mine. This is the way and the only way to the freedom and fulfillment of preferring God's will to mine.

Paradoxically, no one can change until they first accept themselves as they are. Self-deceptions and an absence of real vulnerability block any meaningful transformation. It is only when I accept who I am that I dare to show you that self in all its vulnerability and nakedness. Only then do I have the opportunity to receive your love in a manner that makes a genuine difference.

Growth, unlike aging, is not an automatic consequence of

In order for our knowing of God's love to be truly transformational, it must become the basis of our identity. Our identity is who we experience ourselves to be—the I each of us carries within. An identity grounded in God would mean that when we think of who we are, the first thing that would come to mind is our status as someone who is deeply loved by God.

Christian spirituality involves a transformation of the self that occurs only when God and self are both deeply known. Both, therefore, have an important place in Christian spirituality. There is no deep knowing of God without a deep knowing of self, and no deep knowing of self without a deep knowing of God.

Looking back, I find it remarkable how easily I accepted ideas about God as substitutes for direct experience of him. It took me a long time to begin to know God through my heart and not simply my head.

Coming to know and trust God's love is a lifelong process. Making this knowledge the foundation of our identity—or better, allowing our identity to be re-formed around this most basic fact of our existence—will also never happen instantly. Both lie at the core of the spiritual transformation that is the intended outcome of Christ-following.

Truly transformational knowledge is always personal, never merely objective. It involves knowing of, not merely knowing about. And it is always relational. It grows out of a relationship to the object that is known—whether this is God or one's self.