Quotes About Transformation

For the religious spirit is like the flu—it is constantly adapting to the environment.

restored in you, to be renewed in you, to receive from you

So you turn from your independence and all the ways you either charge at life or shrink from it; this may be one of the most basic and the most crucial ways you repent.

The secret of Christianity is something else altogether—the life of Christ in you. Allowing his life to become your life. His revolution is not self-transformation, but his transformation of you, from the inside out, as you receive his life and allow him to live through you. Vine, branch. Anything else is madness.

As Athanasius said, "He became what we are that we might become what he is.

We live in a very different moment in the story than David and his colleagues; a great deal has changed since the Psalms were penned. The incarnation, for one thing—the Son of God has come. Your ransom, for another. The cross has happened, the resurrection too. Tectonic shifts have shaken the heavens and the earth, and those events change the posture of our praying in profound ways.

The trouble with steeling yourself against the harshness of reality is that the same steel that secures your life against being destroyed secures your life also against being opened up and transformed. (The Sacred Journey) Only when we enter our wound will we discover our true glory.

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures. And however undramatic the pursuit of peace, that pursuit must go on. [Address before the United Nations, September 20 1963]

Time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life.

Today our concern must be with the future. For the world is changing. The old era is ending. The old ways will not do.

And if thou begin to work in Mercury itself, where nature hath left it imperfect, thou shall find perfection and shall rejoice.

because in the Dissolving, the fire should be light always, in the Sublimation mean, in the Coagulation temperate, continual in the Whitening, and strong in the Rubification.

Alas, poor gentleman, He look'd not like the ruins of his youth But like the ruins of those ruins.

We can sometimes recognize the looks of a century ago on a modern face; but never those of a century to come.

He is the same, but everything is different.

Staring out to sea, I finally forced myself to stop thinking of her as someone still somewhere, if only in memory, still obscurely alive, breathing, doing, moving, but as a shovelful of ashes already scattered; as a broken link, a biological dead end, an eternal withdrawal from reality, a once complex object that now dwindled, dwindled, left nothing behind except a l like a fallen speck of soot on a blank sheet of paper.

Comprendo que soy terriblemente cobarde. No quiero morir, porque amo la vida apasionadamente. ¡Nunca había sabido hasta hoy cuánta es mi ansia de vivir! Si consigo librarme de este infierno, jamás podré volver a ser lo que era antes.

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Dar dragostea vine îmbr?cat? în veÈ™minte diferite, cu alt? fa??, sub o alt? form? È™i poate c? e nevoie de timp îndelungat ca s-o accepÈ›i; s? o numeÈ™ti dragoste.

We attend too many seminars. We take too many classes. We buy too many books. We play too many audios in our cars. It's all wasted if we're unclear on what learning really is: Learning is not attending, listening, or reading. Learning is really about translating knowing what to do into doing what we know. It's about changing. If we have not changed we have not learned.

I saw the angel in the marble and I chiseled until I set it free. —Michelangelo

that slow and beautiful decay which flings crowns underfoot to star the earth with fallen glories

But in those four minutes the boy before you has slipped through a door, hardly opened, into that great cage which never again quite lets a man go — the cage of the Law.

Darkness cannot be directly removed, but it automatically disappears when you turn on the light.