Quotes About Transformation

We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.

Love, like death, changes everything.

I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out.

Love works in miracles every day: such as weakening the strong, and strengthening the weak; making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools; favouring the passions, destroying reason, and in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy.

And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised.

Marriage is a long event of perpetual change in which a man and a woman mutually build up their souls and make themselves whole.

Life is about adapting to changes every step of the way....

Love is blind and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

To every girl who gossiped about me in corners of parties, to those who were my slap in the face, to the close minded or misunderstanding, to those boys that broke my heart, and to those friends who turned out to be back stabbers. You all challenged me to become the person I wanted to be. I am stronger because of all the stupid things you put me through. No matter how much you have done to me, you have unknowingly done so much more for me. So, thanks

The freedom to fall out of Eden will cost a mirror-shattering experience.

Our task shouldn't be punishing the villains in our lives, but enlarging the God who heals us from all wounds.

Nothing significant in the kingdom of God happens unless death occurs.

God illuminated something powerful in that moment. One e-mail represented my family of origin - a family bent toward hiding. And my new family, the one I'd forged from the ashes of my past, desperate for Jesus to help me, represents who I am today. I am loved. I am surrounded by children and a husband who cheer for me.

If you want to change the culture, you will have to start by changing the organization.

We grow when the walls press in. We grow when life steals our control. We grow in darkness.

The Gospel isn't a life management program. It shouldn't merely be the crutch we fall on when life gets ugly. It should be the legs we walk on, the air we breathe.

Growth comes from God, to those with surrendered, yielded hearts.

When God wants to do an impossible task, He takes an impossible person and breaks her.

Jesus wastes none of our stories, even our tales of woe. He transforms them into epic adventures where we dare to face our past for the sake of our present.

To become more like Jesus we must understand that the only growth we can be in charge of is our own.

So much growth can come in discord. The pain we walk through can become a catalyst to push us toward God.

Because of Jesus, I was already a completed story.

Mary E. DeMuth

Your past will either haunt you or it will break you enough to reach for rescue.