Quotes About Transformation

After many years of joyless life, the blind grandmother had at last found something to make her happy; her days were no longer passed in weariness and darkness, one like the other without pleasure or change, for now she had always something to which she could look forward.

The fact is that the money in our bank account was once something else: work and enterprise. And that money will become something else: possessions and experiences.

Friendship is an intercourse of world. Mike Tyson became a friend of "Cus" D'Amato, and it took him from fighting on the street and going to prison to fighting in a ring for money.

Friendship is system for creating lasting changes in people.

How many people came and stayed a certain time, Uttered light or dark speech that became part of you Like light behind windblown fog and sand Filtered and influenced by it, until no part Remains that is surely you.

The first year was like icing. Then the cake started to show through …

That's sort of growing up, I guess. Forgetting the things you used to love.

True change comes only when we die to ourselves and allow Christ to set the pace.

We erect a statue in our own image inside ourselves - idealised, you know, but still recognisable - and then spend our lives engaged in the effort to make ourselves into its likeness.

I shall strip away layer after layer of grime -- the toffee-colored varnish and caked soot left by a lifetime of dissembling -- until I come to the very thing itself and know it for what it is. My soul. My self.

She trained her camera on a fresh-faced hopeful but the pictures she produced were the mug-shots of a raddled old confidence trickster. Exposed, yes, that is the word

Destruam et aedificabo, as Proudhon was wont to cry.

The word "innovation" comes from the Latin words in and novare, meaning "to make something new, to change".

The Christian] does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us. . . —C.S. Lewis

Father, I want to continue to always grow into a more intimate relationship with You. Expose the areas of my life that hinder me from being Christlike, and cause my life to reflect the character of my precious Savior and Lord.

And as we live in God, our love grows more perfect. So we will not be afraid on the day of judgment, but we can face him with confidence because we are like Christ here in this world. (1 John 4:17 NLT)

Be ye perfect is not. . .a command to do the impossible. [God] is going to make us into creatures that can obey that command.

God is not looking for an outward form of holiness; He wants an inward change of heart,…

Here is the reality: to be changed, we need His presence!

When the plan of God for my life causes me to face my hurts and wrongful attitudes, I will not run from these things but will find healing and restoration from dealing with my hurts through the power of the Holy Spirit.

Our proper order for bearing His presence is found in the recesses of the heart. It is within the heart we must prepare, for God is about to reveal His glory on earth like it has never been seen before.

We cannot discern what is truly good for our lives without first having our minds renewed.

fix your attention on God. You'll be changed from the inside out.

If we proclaim a gospel that doesn't emphasize transformation, we end up with a deficit of clean containers, which consequently creates a shortage of God's manifest presence on the earth.