Quotes About Transformation

Your father has gone off to find himself." She turned and looked at me for the longest time. "He wants to make believe he's someone else.

You can change your life by changing the way you think about yourself and your potential.

He gave life to the breath- oxygen, a simple gas, he transferred into words, ideas, hope.

Benjamin Franklin cautioned, "When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Faith, for Paul, is a death experience, a death that creates life.

Holiness is not a supplement to justification but the actualization of justification,

We read Revelation as words from a prophet-pastor (and ultimately from God), in order to be formed and transformed, not merely informed

Both men were transformers in life; they thought not of themselves but of a higher cause. They assumed truly heroic transformations in bringing to their societies the idea "you have been thinking one way, you now have to think a different way."399

No one can be told who they are. It is an experience, a shift in reality, a change in consciousness.

One of Cranmer's goals in writing and revising the Book of Common Prayer was to get Scripture into the ears of the people so that their hearts might be turned to God and their lives transformed by his love. Cranmer

Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation.

Lawrence: A man who gives himself to the possession of aliens leads a Yahoo life. In my case my effort for these years to live in the dress of Arabs, and to imitate their mental foundation, quitted me of my English self, and let me look at the West and its conventions with new eyes, and destroyed it all for me. At the same time I could not sincerely take on the Arab skin: it was an affectation only.

the United States has no business transforming itself into "an occupying power in a seething Arab world,"12 still good advice; and that if we should ever do so, "I am sure we would regret it." The length, detail, and meticulous

You became what you wanted to become. That's what Ezra believe. You could become it if you tried hard enough, could take what you really were and change it, force-feed yourself a new life until it became your old life, too, blurred together until a better self emerged.

based on what the wind does, we build

First, you had to get a badger drunk on wine filtered through camphor and blended with a compound of gold, seed pearls, and coral.

If Christians were afraid of worldliness as much as they are of holiness, they would set the world on fire for Christ. ANONYMOUS

Smith Wigglesworth exhorted, "Read it through; write it down; pray it in; work it out; pass it on. The Word of God changes a man until he becomes an Epistle of God.

As long as we continue to perceive our life as purely a physical occurrence, or as a mental construct that has become manifest physically, our attempt to transform the quality of our experience within it remains ineffectual.

What an unusual rabbi! Today we often hear about the importance of being "inclusive," but what people often mean by inclusion is, "Accept me as I am and affirm me as I am." (I call this "affirmational inclusion.") Yeshua did something much better. He practiced what I call "transformational inclusion": he met people where they were and changed them.

A diamond is a piece of coal that stuck to the job.

Long ago, Margaret Mead, the world-famous anthropologist, noted that we should "never underestimate the power of a small group with dedication to change the world; it is, in fact, the only thing that does.

Everything you've done, everything you've seen, everything you've become, remains. You never can go back, only forward, and if you don't bring the whole of yourself with you, you'll never see the sun again

When you meet someone you love, then you change for good. That's why the other person will never know or understand the earlier you, and why you can never change back. And why, when that person starts to go, you'll feel the tear deep in your heart long before your head has the slightest clue what's going on.