Quotes About Transformation

Their deepest desire—believe me about this—is to change our way of living. Their deepest desire is to make us like them. I swear it." Tasunke

From now on you will eat nothing." Coming-from-the-Water took a skunk skin, slit it, and draped it around Sam's shoulders and chest. "Come," called Bell Rock. A half-dozen men came in, some carrying drums. Immediately, they started a song. "Attention," said Bell Rock. Sam sank his mind into the music. From within the music, he only half-noticed what was done. Bell Rock painted

I wanted only what I had asked from the pipe of the sun dancer—that the words that came from the spirits through me change a million hearts. They needed changing. Twenty

Half a life ago I was one man, and am now another. Where once I paid attention to my head, I now follow my heart. Where I once I strove for achievement, I now seek to give and receive love. Though I still want to earn a living, my writing now is entirely born in love and offered as love. I

A million butterflies rose up from South America, All together, and flew in a gold storm toward Spain...

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to have changed often.

change. Ideas change.

They had graduated from cloth-and-wood flying machines in the dawn of human flight to steel and aluminum behemoths with thousands of horsepower and terrific firepower;

When I pronounce the word Future, the first syllable already belongs to the past. When I pronounce the word Silence, I destroy it.

Although the Lord has accomplished much with regard to Israel to prepare her for His return, He must also prepare the church as His bride....I believe that it will be impossible for the Lord to prepare His bride in today's Christianity as a religious system with all its traditions, rituals, and forms. I also doubt that those entrapped in Christianity will be able to do much to prepare the bride that will bring our Lord back.

The central thought of the Scriptures is that God intends to work Himself in Christ through the Spirit into us, that God and we, we and God, might be really one in life, in nature, and in the Spirit. To show this God uses several figures or symbols in the Bible.

As we grow in Christ, we are being built up in Him.

We should give heed to the words of the Bible until something as phosphorous rises within us

The indwelling Holy Spirit seems to say, "Don't doubt. God loves you. You don't understand why you must suffer now, but one day you will say, 'Father, I thank You for the troubles and trials which I passed through.'" When you enter the gate of eternity, you will say, "Praise the Lord for the sufferings and tests which fell upon me on my journey. God used them to transform me.

Along with the friction, there must also be growth. This growth will nullify the effect of the friction.

God enjoys drinking wine. He does not want the wine made from grapes, but the wine made from Christ's saturating us. God is not interested in grapes—He is interested in you with Christ. We must become wine through the experience of Christ.

If God's people remain in the world, God cannot do anything. But if they are willing to be rescued from the world unto God, God can work out His purpose on the earth to have His dwelling place.

It is not to improve or reform oneself nor to forsake the evil and turn to the good, as people generally believe.

The process of sanctification includes saturation, transformation, growth, and building up.

Jeremiah 13:23 says, "Can the Cushite change his skin, / Or the leopard his spots? / Then you also may be able to do good, / Who are accustomed to do evil.

If we partake of Christ as the real manna, we shall find it difficult to lose our temper....This heavenly food causes our lusts to be restricted. It also deals with our selfish ambition. On the one hand, the heavenly manna nourishes us and heals us; on the other hand, it eliminates the negative things in us. Because eating is such a crucial matter, the regulating of man's diet is another basic concept in the Bible.

The energizing element of Christ is a supply, a factor, for us to live Christ.

The Lord Jesus has set His suffering life before us as an underwriting for us to copy by tracing that He may be reproduced in us [1 Pet. 2:20-21].

Resurrection denotes something which has been put to death and which is alive again.