Quotes About Transformation

You cannot change other people, miss," Yvette would say. "You must change yourself inside first.

RUNT is my FAVORITE book.It starts out small.Then,it gets exciting in the middle.In the end it settled.

To me, real love, the move from power to love, involves immense suffering. Any creative work comes from that level, where we share our sufferings, just the sheer suffering of being human. And that's where the real love is.

I use the word mystery,rather than magic. I love magic. something magic was always going to happen. When it did, it never did anything but land me in trouble. MYSTERY is the depth of the sacred. Page 33 coming home to my self

I yearned for lightness; I still yearn for lightness. Lightness is freedom -- freedom from the heaviness of too much stuff, too many words, too heavy a pull toward inertia. I feared being buried in stone -- becoming stone.

When it happens— the great sea change, the alteration of one's life into something rich and strange— when it singles one out, one is always lucky, lucky automatically. I'm talking about transformation, and the transformation I'm talking about is always a gift. A blessing.

She wondered whether Pearl wasn't right in her dire warnings that this relationship with Suzy would change her forever. It probably would. But perhaps she wanted to change. What else was life all about?

It's fear that makes us lose our conscience. It's also what transforms us into cowards.

All of us change. Everyone in this world, from birth to death, becomes someone new. Again and again, we are remade.

Mother Wolf, you called yourself. What does a wolf teach her pups but teeth and hunger? You didn't make me in your image. You made me into something worse. I have to know what that is.

Too bad people don't rebuild themselves so easily.

Mother Wolf, you called yourself. What does a wolf teach her pups but teeth and hunger? You didn't make me in your image. You made me into something worse.

What happened once, will happen again...but in a different form. To become a future-teller, one needs only to study history.

There are some years in our lives that we would not want to live again. But even these years will pass away, and the lessons learned will be a future blessing.

That is why," Chadwick explains, "the problem of secularization is not the same as the problem of Enlightenment. Enlightenment was of the few. Secularization is of the many."[129]

We have taken beauty and exchanged it for stilted voices.

If we repent, God always recycles our mistakes.

Now here is what you need to understand: If you don't turn your adversity into a ministry, then your pain remains your pain. But if you allow God to translate your adversity into a ministry, then your pain becomes someone else's gain.

When he came there was no light. When he left there was no darkness.

Going all in and all out for the All in All is both a death sentence and a life sentence. Your sinful nature, along with its selfish desires, is nailed to the cross. Then, and only then, does your true personality, your true potential, and your true purpose come alive. After all, God cannot resurrect what has not died. And that's why so many people are half alive. They haven't died to self yet.

We're too Christian to enjoy sin and too sinful to enjoy Christ. We've got just enough Jesus to be informed, but not enough to be transformed.

Our normal is so subnormal that normal seems radical. To the first-century disciples, normal and radical were synonyms. We've turned them into antonyms.

God can deliver you in one day, but it may take years to break old habits or build new habits.

I live by the maxim, love people when they least expect it and least deserve it. That how you change someone's life forever.