logo

Quotes About Transformation

It's a very odd thing As odd as can be That whatever Miss T. eats Turns into Miss T.
~ Walter de La Mare
As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn't leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I'd still be in prison.
~ Nelson Mandela
I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.
~ Khaled Hosseini
Let us this very day begin anew, and now say, with all our hearts, we will forsake our sins and be righteous.
~ Joseph Smith, Jr.
Forgiveness changes the way we remember.
~ Henri Nouwen
If you choose to forgive someone who has wronged you rather than to hate that person, you shift the frequency of your Light.
~ Gary Zukav
You have to say I am forgiven again and again until it becomes the story you believe about yourself.
~ Cheryl Strayed
The rebels will be thinking about retaliation, what we have to do is stop; stop and transform it into a spiral of forgiveness and reconciliation.
~ Juan Manuel Santos
Since our greatest need was forgiveness, God sent us a Savior. He became like us, so we could become like Him.
~ Max Lucado
Hope for a great sea-change timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.
~ Seamus Heaney
Once you experience forgiveness, your outer world changes.
~ Joe Vitale
Those who are most conscious of forgiveness are invariably those who have been most acutely convicted of their sin.
~ Sinclair B. Ferguson
Perpetrators who receive the gift of forgiveness are given a chance to change
~ Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela
To grant forgiveness to someone who has truly changed is not a way of condoning or forgetting his or her past crimes, but of acknowledging whom he or she has become.
~ Matthieu Ricard
Forgiveness changes the way we remember. It converts the curse into a blessing. Forgiveness indeed heals memories . . .
~ Henri Nouwen
Forgiveness ... is the finishing of old business that allows us to experience the present, free of contamination from the past.
~ Joan Z. Borysenko
Forgiveness doesn't sit there like a pretty boy in a bar. Forgiveness is the old fat guy you have to haul up a hill.
~ Cheryl Strayed
To be forgiven is not enough; we must put an end to the very need to be forgiven.
~ Bernadette Roberts
There is magic in sincere forgiveness - magic to heal.
~ Terry Goodkind
Pain is no longer pain when it is past.
~ Margaret Junkin Preston
Forgiveness, quite frankly, is the most selfish thing you can do. Because it is the greatest thing you can do for yourself.
~ Caroline Myss
Forgiveness leads to a shift in perception. It transforms the hurt into healing.
~ Iyanla Vanzant
At that moment, something shifted sweetly inside him. It was forgiveness, beautiful and effortless and complete. For Louie Zamperini, the war was over.
~ Laura Hillenbrand
Repentance is a change of behavior which invites forgiveness.
~ Theodore M. Burton