Quotes About Transformation

When we invite the Spirit to fill us, the Spirit's power grips our lives with this kind of strength and passion.

If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear.

The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?

Personality is born out of pain. It is the fire shut up in the flint.

New Jerusalem is found wherever human community resists the ways of empire and places God at the center of its shared life."27

The Spirit of Old Princeton is dead.

We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.

Getting the correct "big idea" will transform your message from tedious to tremendous and will allow the power of God's Word to transform the lives of your listeners.

These folks ain't the same as you knew 'em. They's a mob now." In

Hades is evolved to the highest state of simplicity.

A Shrunken Gospel We make the gospel too small by thinking it only "gets us saved," that it is a sort of fire insurance, without understanding that it has implications for all of life.

I long for a church that disarms with love, not entertainment, and lives out countercultural confidence in the power of the gospel.

Habit breaking is straightforward.

Surely Paul's moral and spiritual greatness is all the more evident the more he is studied and analyzed. It is sheer irony and miracle that God would select one of the most aggressive opponents of the early Christian movement and make him into its most outstanding leader.

Will the leader reflect the ugliness of egotism or the transfigured glory of Christ the Lord?

Life is like sea-water; it never gets quite sweet until it is drawn up into heaven.

Life's essential harmony is within each of us. So also is life's brokenness. To be part of transformation is to look falseness in the face, to passionately name it and denounce it in our world, and at the same time to clearly identify its shadow within our own hearts and to do battle with it there.

And then her heart changed, or at least she understood it; and the winter passed, and the sun shone upon her.

So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.

It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end… because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing… this shadow. Even darkness must pass.

The world has changed. I see it in the water. I feel it in the Earth. I smell it in the air. Much that once was is lost, For none now live who remember it.

We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried. Most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad Gita…. "I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." I suppose we all thought that, one way or another.

We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried. Most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita; Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty, and to impress him, takes on his multi-armed form and says, 'Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.' I suppose we all thought that, one way or another.

We can become, in other words, people for whom the romantic or existentialist dream might eventually begin to come at least partially true. But this is not, or not for the most part, something straightforwardly and completely given in baptism and in initial Christian faith.