Quotes About Transformation

Long my imprisoned spirit lay, Fast bound in sin and nature's night . . . My chains fell off, my heart was free, I rose, went forth, and followed Thee. —Charles Wesley

Redemption means that God can in a moment "weave" into your memory the awareness of His presence.

Te amo, Señor. Ven, trae tu luz y expulsa la oscuridad. Trae tu verdad y expón las mentiras. Hay muchas cosas en mí que me impiden dar y recibir amor. Límpiame con tu sangre. Libérame de esas mentiras que me impiden conocer tu amor. Quiero caminar hacia la luz en el camino que has elegido para mí.

El hermano mayor se encuentra en una posición superior de juicio hacia los demás. Podemos encerrar a alguien en una prisión pensando: "Es así, nunca cambiará". Al etiquetar a los demás, nos damos una razón para retirarnos de la relación. Los muros de la prisión que construimos están edificados para protegernos.

Si le das tus "panes y peces" a Jesús, Él puede y convertirá nuestros humildes dones, incluso las cicatrices de nuestras dolorosas heridas, en una mayor compasión por los demás.

Show some fucking adaptability!

Move forward with no second-guessing, no guilt trips, no hesitation. Your purpose is to recreate yourself anew in each moment.

That constitutionally stipulated deadline of January 1, 1808, is, from our perspective, one of the most important dates in American history, signaling as it does the transformation of the United States slavery industry. For this reason, 1808 is also an essential date for understanding the making of African American culture. Kidnapped Africans had been arriving for almost two hundred years, repeatedly re-Africanizing American culture. No longer. The child was separated from the ancestors.

I just want to not be me.

To make changes, you'll need to break out of automatic pilot and start making conscious choices when

The more you reaffirm who you are in Christ, the more your behavior will being to reflect your true identity.

Attendance on Sundays does not transform lives; Jesus within their hearts is what changes people.

God sees only the righteousness of Jesus when He looks at me because all my shame, pain, and blame were taken by Jesus, and I was given His goodness in exchange.

You're always you, and that don't change, and you're always changing, and there's nothing you can do about it.

Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.

Remember: in order for a perception to change one must be frustrated in one's actions or change one's purpose.

technological change is not additive; it is ecological. A new technology does not merely add something; it changes everything".

Television, in other words, is transforming our culture into one vast arena for show business. It is entirely possible, of course, that in the end we shall find that delightful, and decide we like it just fine. That is exactly what Aldous Huxley feared was coming, fifty years ago.

Technological change is neither additive nor subtractive. It is ecological. I mean "ecological" in the same sense as the word is used by environmental scientists. One significant change generates total change.

But the telegraph demands that we burn its contents.

Neil S. Plakcy

Digo a meus alunos que isto é uma metáfora para a vida: seguimos pensando que nada será diferente, até o dia em que tudo muda repentinamente de uma vez.

Because, all too often, the things that we're the most resistant to are precisely what we need. And the things we're most scared to let go of are exactly the ones we most need to relinquish.

All Christians have their sins forgiven, but in most cases they are not experiencing revival.