Quotes About Transformation

Grace enables and empowers us to live a life of holiness and obedience to the authority of God.

God's answer for our shortcomings is the gift of salvation through His gift of grace, a gift that cannot be earned (Rom. 4:4). Many in the church understand this. Yet we have failed to emphasize the power of grace not only to redeem us but also to grant us its ability to live our lives in a totally different manner.

What good is it to acknowledge Jesus Christ when there is no change of heart and therefore no change in action?

Those who truly believe will exhibit a changed nature and no longer produce the fruit of an evil one.

It seemed to him, the more he thought about it, a kind of marriage between stone and water, the oyster. Inside a stone, water thickens into an oyster, and then it pulses within its shell like the gray heart of a gray stone. He felt he was getting close to something he needed to understand, not about oysters, about something else....

The dot that became a speck that became a blob that became a figure that became a boy

Of course all this happened a long time ago. And nothing like that could happen again, not in this day and age.

And shortly after that the blob became a figure. And then, as Bruno got even closer, he saw that the thing was neither a dot nor a speck nor a blob nor a figure, but a person.

Îns?, în timp ce reflect? astfel, picioarele îl duser? pas cu pas din ce în ce mai aproape de punctul din dep?rtare, care între timp devenise o pat?, apoi se transform? într-un strop. ?i în curând dup? aceea, stropul deveni o siluet?. Dup? care, când Bruno se apropie È™i mai mult, v?zu c? nu era nici punct, nici pat?, nici strop, nici siluet?, ci o f?ptur?. De fapt, era un b?iat.

You were such a sweet boy when you first came here. Is it really that easy for the innocent to be corrupted?

E' la storia che ci ha condotto fin qui. Se non fosse per la storia, nessuno di noi oggi sarebbe seduto a questa tavola. Saremmo tranquillamente seduti nella nostra casa di Berlino. Stiamo correggendo la storia, qui.

Todo esto, por supuesto, pasó hace mucho, mucho tiempo, y nunca podría volver a pasar nada parecido. Hoy en día, no.

And that's the end of the story about Bruno and his family. Of course all this happened a long time ago and nothing like that could ever happen again. Not in this day and age.

Healthy shame is the psychological foundation of humility. It is the source of spirituality. What I discovered was that shame as a healthy human emotion can be transformed into shame as a state of being. As a state of being shame takes over one's whole identity. To have shame as an identity is to believe that one's being is flawed, that one is defective as a human being. Once shame is transformed into an identity, it becomes toxic and dehumanizing.

We must give up our delusional false selves and ego defenses to find the vital and precious core of ourselves.

shame as a healthy human emotion can be transformed into shame as a state of being. As a state of being shame takes over one's whole identity. To have shame as an identity is to believe that one's being is flawed, that one is defective as a human being. Once shame is transformed into an identity, it becomes toxic and dehumanizing.

The Hero with a Thousand Faces

we are spiritual beings who need an earthly journey to become fully spiritual.

This transformation involves three dynamics: 1. The identification with shame-based models and the carrying of their unexpressed shame. 2. The trauma of abandonment and the shame binding all one's feelings, needs and drives. 3. The interconnection and magnification of visual memories or scenes, and the retaining of shaming auditory and kinesthetic imprints.

First you use machines, then you wear machines, and then…?

You know, that's what's wrong with us on the public level. We fret about how to keep going the same old way when we should be casting around for another way that's better. Our society is hurtling in free fall toward heaven knows where

A work of grace in the soul makes itself known either to the one who has it or to onlookers. Where

Sí, señora, aunque bien contra mi voluntad: especialmente mis propios pensamientos carnales, que tanto nos complacían a mí y a mis paisanos; pero ahora todas estas cosas me pesan tanto que, si la elección fuera solo mía, nunca más pensaría en ellas. Pero cuando quiero hacer el bien, entonces veo que el mal está en mí3.

My name at the first was Graceless.