Quotes About Transformation

What are the dead, anyway, but waves and energy? Light shining from a dead star?

What if our badness and mistakes are the very thing that set our fate and bring us round to good? What if, for some of us, we can't get there any other way?

For weeks, I'd been frozen, sealed-off; now, in the shower, I would turn up the water as hard as it would go and howl, silently. Everything was raw and painful and confusing and wrong and yet it was as if I'd been dragged from freezing water through a break in the ice, into sun and blazing cold.

What if our badness and mistakes are the very thing that set our fate and bring us round to good? What if, for some of us, we can't get there any other way?

it may be a superhuman effort to lose oneself so completely, but that's nothing compared to the effort of getting oneself back again

I prefer to think of it as redistribution of matter.

Bunny put away his copy of The Bride of Fu Manchu and started carrying around a volume of Homer instead.

Her death the dividing mark: Before and After. And though it's a bleak thing to admit all these years later, still I've never met anyone who made me feel loved the way she did. Everything came alive in her company; she cast a charmed theatrical light about her so that to see anything through her eyes was to see it in brighter colors than ordinary—I

And it may be a superhuman effort to lose oneself so completely, but that's nothing compared to the effort of getting oneself back again.

Everything was raw and painful and confusing and wrong and yet it was as if I'd been dragged from freezing water through a break in the ice, into sun and blazing cold.

You are afraid to die?" "Yes, every one is." "But to die as lovers may—to die together, so that they may live together. "Girls are caterpillars while they live in the world, to be finally butterflies when the summer comes; but in the meantime there are grubs and larvae, don't you see—each with their peculiar propensities, necessities and structure.

Daniel was not conformed to this world, but he was transformed by the renewing of his mind, and the will of God was the all-absorbing purpose of his life.

If they lived through this, she promised to herself she'd be different. More open. Less worried. More fun. Less angry. More loving.

The least successful athletes, those who have never won any victories, suddenly call themselves trainers.

Believe me, you cannot stand still in your souls. Habits of good or evil are daily strengthening in your hearts. Every day you are either getting nearer to God, or further off.

Sanctifying faith is a grace of which the very life is action: it "worketh by love," and, like a main-spring, moves the whole inward man. (Gal. v. 6.)

Let us urge on every one who exhibits new interest in religion to be content with nothing short of the deep, solid, sanctifying work of the Holy Ghost.

En resumen, donde no hay una santificación de la vida, no hay una fe verdadera en Cristo.

Cuanta más luz espiritual han disfrutado, mejor han visto sus innumerables defectos y faltas. Más gracia han tenido, más han sido revestidos "de humildad" (1 Pe. 5:5).

Saving faith and real converting grace will always produce some conformity to the image of Jesus.

Simply put, where there is no sanctification of life, there is no real faith in Christ.

He that would be conformed to Christ's image, and become a Christ-like man, must be constantly studying Christ Himself.

Sanctification is the only certain evidence of the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, which is essential to salvation.

Basically, where there is no sanctification there is no regeneration, and where there is no holy life there is no new birth.