Quotes About Transformation

There comes a moment in our lives when some of the pieces of the puzzle come together - where all our past experiences, both good and bad, are brought to bear in causing us to become who God intends us to be.

Omnia Mutantur...

All major changes are like death. You can't see to the other side until you are there.

About the main character approaching death in old age, observed by her husband . . .] He saw that she had already laid down a large portion of her life long ago. Piece by piece she had given it away as she wrestled with existence, as her self was absorbed as nourishment into his life and the life of the children and the community. And laid down most piercingly, as she abandoned, one by one, the shapes of the dreams she had planned. Only to take them up again in other forms.

You can't just sit there hating the wound, Tan, or indulging in bitterness. Whatever you become in life, always ask yourself, am I making more life or am I making more death?

His revulsion was overcome by love welling up within his heart.

I suspect that I shall be broken; I suspect that I shall finally live. Save me, Emily! Save me from this shattering we are pleased at times to call love.

Peter looked at Jesus and said, 'Get away from me; I'm a sinful man.' A dumb guy from Galilee named Pete. Jesus made him into Bishop of Rome, chief of the apostles, the foundation stone. Christ built a Church on all that weakness. That's what hit me most of all, the weakness. Inside the weakness was a terrific secret.

Eventually he saw that he had been running to Christ, and the flight from the past had been one of the means used by God to propel him forward.

the false self must die in order for the true self to be born.

In all your years of living," said Elijah, "has no one told you that it is possible to be restored to what one was created to be?

Here's the rock, I said to myself. This man, this rough, humble, big man was just like me. Jesus looked at him and loved him. Peter looked at Jesus and said, Get away from me, I'm a sinful man. A dumb guy from Galilee named Pete. Jesus made him into Bishop of Rome, chief of the apostles, the foundation stone. Christ built a Church on all that weakness. That's what hit me most of all, the weakness. Inside the weakness was a terrific secret.

came at the impossible moment, and the world, which was powerful and sick unto death, burning and dying in its sins, was born again.

of becoming a desert dweller. Like Serafim, I had suffered on the cross with Christ, but unlike him, I had not yet given everything. You see, Aleksandr, in each heart three trees grow. Life cuts them down, trims them, crafts them into crosses. Then they are lifted high on a hill—a hill like a skull. One is the cross of Jesus, the second the cross of the repentant thief, and the third the cross of the unrepentant thief.

tell you, your heart will be fully broken, and then only will you find your true heart.

How will you make it your own?

do whatever it takes to get into the transition

you can decide to learn and adapt, or you can become brittle and fail.

His eyes had changed color. They were no longer brown. Instead, they looked huge and golden. The eyes reminded him of a nightmare he'd had many times. In the dream, he turned into a giant black dragon. The nightmare dragon had burning yellow eyes.

Real transformations of major tech companies are extremely rare: I think because companies develop a particular capability, and a set of customers, and change is hard. You can't take the stripes off a tiger. If you're born a dog, you don't die a cat.

Once established, the level of "self" rarely changes unless a person makes a structured and long-term effort to change it.

A flourishing human life is the best advertisement for the gospel, and the gospel in turn empowers us to become better people.

Redemption restores rather than obliterates creation.

deep lines cut by trauma provide access to depths that are otherwise unreachable. In such instances, nourishment follows trauma to new places. We wish things could be otherwise … easier. But we have little choice when illumination shines through injury.