Quotes About Transformation

Emotional discomfort, when accepted, rises, crests and falls in a series of waves. Each wave washes a part of us away and deposits treasures we never imagined. Out goes naivete, in comes wisdom; out goes anger, in comes discernment; out goes despair, in comes kindness. No one would call it easy, but the rhythm of emotional pain that we learn to tolerate is natural, constructive and expansive... The pain leaves you healthier than it found you.

Or you can choose grace. To let it all go in one fell swoop. There will be no middle ground here." He waved his arm and shook his shaggy head, letting out a tired sigh. "But I will offer this. Instead of wondering what was lost, take a moment and wonder what could be gained. What could still be lost if you don't let go.

Was every good change made in the world the result of successful bullying? I wondered.

Losing one's mind is surely like losing one's virginity. Lose a little, lose a lot.

You adapt: the impossible becomes imaginable, thinkable, logical. Three easy steps." from Best Friends

You can't really change the heart without telling a story.

Because it is only by God's grace that we are enabled to renew our minds and be more like God, God gets all the credit.

The more you adapt, the more interesting you are.

I was tired of pretending to be human. I needed a break.

That isn't how this works, expositor." Then he peeled Tarrow's soul from his body and ate his life.

Her face looked younger. She looked like she had been pretending to have hope and now she didn't have to pretend anymore. (Confession time: that moment, when the humans or augmented humans realize you're really here to help them. I don't hate that moment.)

When everything hurts too much, you want to get away from it but you can't, because it's inside you. So you do something drastic because you know it will change everything.

I'd have to change, make myself do things I didn't want to do. Like talk to humans like I was one of them. I'd have to leave the armor behind.

My skin was less even than hers and it gets completely regenerated on a regular basis due to me being shot in the face.

I'd just discarded Plan Actually Not All That Terrible and shifted to Plan Approaching Terrible.

You can't change who you were. But you can change who you are. And today, you start over. Right now. Hand it over to God. Leave it all right here and walk away.

Many of the trees and bushes put their finery away for the season and slept in their plain brown skins until the spring warmth would wake them again, and coax out their colors and cooling shade.

The Bible warns about religious transformations that may appear good and therefore deceive many: 'For Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.' (2 Corinthians 11:13-14)

Until he met the Lord Jesus Christ on the road to Damascus, the Apostle Paul spent his entire life being willing to have God remove all the defects of his character.

Creation happens to us, burns itself into us, recasts us in burning -- we tremble and are faint, we submit. We take part in creation, meet the Creator, reach out to Him, helpers and companions.

No purpose intervenes between I and You, no greed and no anticipation; and longing itself is changed as it plunges from the dream into appearance. Every means is an obstacle. Only where all means have disintegrated encounters occur.

Thus the poet is the messenger of God and of the earth and is at home in the two spheres. The force of fire is his force; it burns in contradiction, and it shines in unity. Like Enoch, of whom a legend tells that he was transformed from flesh to fire; his bones are glowing coals, but his eyelashes are the splendor of the firmament.

Everyone must come out of his Exile in his own way.

One cannot in the nature of things expect a little tree that has been turned into a club to put forth leaves.