Quotes About Transformation

Jesus-centered spiritual formation is the process of being transformed into the image of Christ, through a relationship of intimacy with God, by the power of the Spirit, in order to live a good and beautiful life of faith, hope, love, joy, and peace—a life that will be a blessing to oneself and to others and will glorify God now and for all eternity. — James Bryan Smith

God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners. — Søren Kierkegaard

The Spiritual Disciplines in and of themselves have no merit whatsoever. They possess no righteousness, contain no rectitude. Their purpose—their only purpose—is to place us before God. After that they have come to the end of their usefulness. But it is enough.

Spiritual Disciplines involve doing what we can do to receive from God the power to do what we cannot do. And God graciously uses this process to produce in us the kind of person who automatically will do what needs to be done when it needs to be done.

A Spiritual Discipline is an intentionally directed action by which we do what we can do in order to receive from God the ability (or power) to do what we cannot achieve by direct effort.

The truth is, we cannot just think ourselves into a new way of being; we must live ourselves into a new way of being.

Padre Pio once said when recalling his childhood. "I was an unsalted piece of macaroni

And that's okay, but you don't have to erase your past for a different future. This is a wonderful place, especially because I know it lay the foundation for the amazing woman you are today.

And if you're not walking in your happiness every day, you need to change the path.

Change your perspective. It could change your life.

I had been wrong about him Tuesday when I figured that he had always been fifty years old and always would be. He had already put on at least five years, and he had shrunk. Instead of tagging him a neat little squirt I would now call him a magnified beetle.

Success starts with SUC. When you evolve there will be challenges.

The Islamic Reformation is already here. We are all living in it.

Thus began the long process of transforming Jesus from a revolutionary Jewish nationalist into a peaceful spiritual leader with no interest in any earthly matter. That was a Jesus the Romans could accept, and in fact did accept three centuries later when the Roman emperor Flavius Theodosius (d. 395) made the itinerant Jewish preacher's movement the official religion of the state, and what we now recognize as orthodox Christianity was born.

Whether for good or for bad, the Iran that ultimately rises out of the ashes of last summer's uprising will be unlike the Iran we know today, and for that we can thank the Green Movement, not another round of useless sanctions.

within the core of each of us is the child we once were. This child constitutes the foundation of what we have become, who we are, and what we will be.

He smelled more powerfully like himself now that he was dead than he had when he was alive.

Do not be seduced by insights and ah-has. They are not the change. They are the catalyst to begin the work to make the change.

the force of love will change your life so fast that you will scarcely believe it!

You are energy, and energy cannot be created or destroyed. Energy just changes form. And that means You! The true essence of You, the pure energy of You, has always been and always will be. You can never not be.

It is quite possible to leave your home for a walk in the early morning air and return a different person – beguiled, enchanted.

Let go of difficulties from your past, cultural codes, and social beliefs. You are the only one who can create the life you deserve.

When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around." Willie Nelson (B. 1933) SINGER-SONGWRITER

Gratitude changed me, and my whole life magically changed.