Quotes About Transformation

The rose is born evil ... but it is pink.

No more painters, no more scribblers, no more musicians, no more sculptors, no more religions, no more royalists, no more radicals, no more imperialists, no more anarchists, no more socialists, no more communists, no more proletariat, no more democrats, no more republicans, no more bourgeois, no more aristocrats, no more arms, no more police, no more nations, an end at last to all this stupidity, nothing left, nothing at all, nothing, nothing.

At first it was just a misdemeanor, but then you lost the "mis-de" and you just got meaner and meaner..

Civilization without regeneration, without a supernatural change of the heart, will never bring in a millennium, an effective and glorious rule of Jesus Christ.

repeated sinful deeds lead to the establishment of sinful habits.

Well, when I was younger, I lied all the time, because once you understand the power of lying, it's really like magic because you transform reality for people.

Jak mawia? Swami Bodhidharma: "nie mo?esz mie? ?adnej nowej rzeczy, dopóki nie pozb?dziesz si? starych rzeczy". Innymi s?owy, kiedy nic ci nie idzie, mo?e nale?y spojrze? na dany problem z innej strony.

That which is man-made can be unmade.

Love builds highways out of dead ends.

and just as the first Imagineers adopted techniques and practices from animation and movie-making to develop the craft of Imagineering, we can borrow (and steal) principles, practices, and processes from Imagineering and apply them in other creative endeavors.

Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became.

salvation is less like a good man becoming a saintly man than it is like a statue coming to life.

El verdadero fin de las operaciones de la alquimia, que acaso son residuos de una ciencia muy antigua perteneciente a una civilización desaparecida, es la transformación del propio alquimista, su ascenso a un estado de conciencia superior.

And yet, unlearn we must, for technology relentlessly transforms the playing field, changing not just the answers but the questions as well.

If only, if only, the moon speaks no reply; Reflecting the sun and all that's gone by. Be strong my weary wolf, turn around boldly. Fly high, my baby bird, My angel, my only

I had finally come full circle. Except for continuing to tell my story and spreading the Word, a great part of my life was over: the delinquency, the running, the war, the imprisonment, the drinking, the nightmares, the greediness and desperation, the unhappiness. I was completely satisfied with my test of forgiveness and more than ready to move on.

When you receive Jesus as your Savior," Dr. Graham continued, "you are regenerated by the spirit of God. Your life is transformed. You are a new person in Jesus Christ. Remember, Jesus doesn't want part of your life, He wants all of your life. He wants you to repent of your sins and then completely and totally surrender your life to Him and follow Him.

For the first time in my life the beautiful story made clear sense. I began to cry, overwhelmed by the emotion. For many years the Bible had been a mystery to me, but now it was an open book. This was the clincher: how could I suddenly understand the Bible when I never could before? How often had I picked it up and put it down because I couldn't make heads or tails of what it was all about? But with the Holy Spirit as my interpreter, the meanings were obvious.

Over time I actually changed the way I saw myself, which meant I showed up in the world differently,

Every day you have to abandon your past or accept it, and then, if you cannot accept it, you become a sculptor.

We are taught we can redeem them, she said to me once. We are taught it as soon as we can read. We can turn the beast into a prince, if only we love him enough.

The Water gets hot very gradually, and as far as the frog is concerned, there is no one point where it gets dramatically different or bad enough to jump out.

Things which do not grow and change are dead things.

Ravens are the birds I'll miss most when I die. If only the darkness into which we must look were composed of the black light of their limber intelligence. If only we did not have to die at all. Instead, become ravens.