Quotes About Transformation

O Spirit! fearlessly bear on. Though storms may break the primrose on its stalk, Though frosts may blight the freshness of its bloom, Yet spring's awakening breath will woo the earth To feed with kindliest dews its favorite flower, That blooms in mossy bank and darksome glens, Lighting the greenwood with its sunny smile.

I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams; I bear light shade for the leaves when laid In their noonday dreams. From my wings are shaken the dews that waken The sweet buds every one, When rocked to rest on their mother's breast, As she dances about the sun. I wield the flail of the lashing hail, And whiten the green plains under, And then again I dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder.

As flowers beneath May's footstep waken, As stars from Night's loose hair are shaken, As waves arise when loud winds call, Thoughts sprung where'er that step did fall.

Know what it is to be a child? It is to be something very different from the man of today. It is to have a spirit yet streaming from the waters of Baptism; it is to believe in belief; it is to be so little that elves can reach to whisper in your ear; it is to turn pumpkins into coaches, and mice into horses, lowness into loftiness, and nothing into everything, for each child had its fairy godmother in its soul.

The god that you dispense with today, will come back as a demon tomorrow.

But everything had changed, and I was becoming more and more of who I really was, and less of this person I had thought I wanted to be.

Where does all the pain go once you're done with the healing?

The revelation can change your situation.

At times there is a crushing before a crowning.

Pruning includes purging the wrong thinking, the negative attitudes, and the wrong people that surround you.

A revival is God breathing fresh life upon dry bones!

God always moves upon a person before He moves within a person.

That which redeems consumes.

Wow! When you become a vampire, men become broad shouldered and muscle-bound and women become tall and thin! You ever think of selling this on QVC?

Great things can rise from fetid pits of wanton death and sorrow.

To truly encounter Jesus is to be knocked sideways, astonished, overwhelmed. Mild interest means you have not yet met him. —Simon Ponsonby

To be a Christian is to live positively and not destructively, to make ugly things beautiful, and to make chaos meaningful.

The most powerful thing that can happen in the place of prayer is that you yourself become the prayer. You leave the prayer room as Jesus's hands and feet on earth. This is what it means to pray continually: to see with the eyes of Jesus and to hear with his ears with every waking moment.

Everywhere, men and women changed their names and embraced strange gods in order to live.

So who are you today?

Murphy's face went through several mutations as he spoke, as if small animals were scurrying about just beneath his skin.

Judging by the faces of those around me, just the fact of Roger speaking to me meant that my life could very well change.

When inward tenderness Finds the secret hurt, Pain itself will crack the rock And, Ah! Let the soul emerge. — Rumi

This is especially good news because what is learned can be unlearned and vice versa.