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Quotes About Transformation

In the space of a few minutes the sky turned black and it began to rain.
~ Primo Levi
Il mestiere di chimico (fortificato, nel mio caso, dall'esperienza di Auschwitz) insegna a superare, anzi ad ignorare, certi ribrezzi, che non hanno nulla di necessario né di congenito: la materia è materia, né nobile né vile, infinitamente trasformabile, e non importa affatto quale sia la sua origine prossima.
~ Primo Levi
Now if you want a book about prayer, this one's probably not for you. You can find some wonderful books on prayer by some scholarly writers, books that are well worth the time spent reading them. In fact, I highly suggest you do. Can't really learn too much about prayer, can you? But here, in these pages, we aren't going to merely talk about prayer or think about praying. No. Get ready.
~ Priscilla Shirer
The word of the Lord is designed to reshape your purposes, putting you in a position for Him to do through you what you cannot do on your own.
~ Priscilla Shirer
The glory our God receives, and will eternally receive, from having saved our souls doesn't come from all the good things we do for Him. His glory comes from creating people of purity and spiritual passion who once did things like that. Like we've done. Like you've done. Like I've done.
~ Priscilla Shirer
Few things hold the potential to so drastically alter the landscape of your life as when you claim godly authority over the insane amount of unnecessary pressures you face. Be ready to see your eyes opened as you close them in prayer. One day soon a whole new kind of woman is going to be emerging from that prayer closet. A free one. A rested one. A contented one. Strategy 9 Your Hurts Turning Bitterness to Forgiveness
~ Priscilla Shirer
Few things hold the potential to so drastically alter the landscape of your life as when you claim godly authority over the insane amount of unnecessary pressures you face. Be ready to see your eyes opened as you close them in prayer. One day soon a whole new kind of woman is going to be emerging from that prayer closet. A free one. A rested one. A contented one.
~ Priscilla Shirer
But often the greatest miracle God can perform for you is right in your own heart. The Bible says to "delight yourself in the Lord; and He will give you the desires of your heart" (Ps. 37:4).
~ Priscilla Shirer
Through the wise, skillful words of this author, God was telling me that effective ministry could never be measured by the size of an audience, by the number of books I'd written, by the acclaim of the crowds, but only by the lives being changed as the Spirit of God rested upon me.
~ Priscilla Shirer
A favorite verse of Scripture says it best and most succinctly : Delight yourself in the Lord; and He will give you the desires of your heart (Psalm 37:4). This doesn't mean that He's necessarily giving you what you want, but rather that He is in the process of transforming your soul to desire what He wants.
~ Priscilla Shirer
Again, one of the qualities that makes the gospel so real and so great is that it doesn't eliminate our past but just so thoroughly deals with it. God forgives it. He changes it. He transforms all that mess into this huge mountain of grace that only takes us higher and closer to Him. So now, instead of being a reason for endless shame, guilt, and regret, our past is a reason for endless worship and free-flowing testimony.
~ Priscilla Shirer
Publius Ovidius Naso
~ Unknown
Phoebus amat visaeque cupit conubia Daphnes, quodque cupit, sperat, suaque illum oracula fallunt ??
~ Publius Ovidius Naso
El tiempo había cambiado, desaparecían las nubes y ante él se extendía una llanura cubierta de un tapiz blanco y ondulante.
~ Unknown
Asa, ca norii de pe cer, Gandurile ne preschimba chipul suav Pe care, astazi, iubindu-l, Poti maine sa-l urasti.
~ Unknown
The path i walk lights up in flames
~ Unknown
Change is good.
~ Unknown
and that revelation murdered all that I once did know. Where once I asked of the God, 'Who are you?' now I ask, 'Who am I?
~ R. Scott Bakker
If we're nothing more than our thoughts and passions, and if our thoughts and passions are nothing more than movements of our souls, then we are nothing more than those who move us. Who you once were, Leweth, ceased to exist the moment your wife died.
~ R. Scott Bakker
All sorcerers had studied alchemy to some extent, and all alchemists, at least those worth their salt, knew how to cook.
~ R. Scott Bakker
Godly men are not revolutionists: the Lord's way is regeneration, not revolution.
~ R.J. Rushdoony
I became more and more confused. My brain got so fuzzy, I even began to wonder if I'd ever actually been a boy at all. Maybe I'd really been a bee for my entire life, and I'd just dreamed about being a boy.
~ R.L. Stine
Yes, we outran them easily," Destiny replied. "It…it's because we're not human anymore. We outran them because we're creatures now.
~ R.L. Stine
Vanessa," he murmured. I stared at him. I knew instantly what he meant. I had been thinking the same thing all along. Remembering the horrible moment we spilled Vanessa's groceries. "Yes," I agreed. "I didn't want to admit it. I didn't want to believe it. But Vanessa did this to us. Vanessa is BLUUUUCK BLUCCCK turning us into chickens." "Chicken chicken," he clucked.
~ R.L. Stine