Quotes About Transformation

What makes the gospel good news isn't the concept, but the real-life person who has been changed by it.[90]

I prayed a one-line prayer simply because my Christian labor had failed me and I had no idea what else to do (and I strongly advise against this prayer unless you are quite ready for God to take you seriously and wreck your life): "God, raise up in me a holy passion.

living on mission where you've been sent will transform your faith journey.

And as it turns out, as soon as we are willing to be the last, we actually become first. When we admit we are least, we feel like the greatest. And when we lose our lives, we find it all . . . all the love, all the life, all the thrill, all the fulfillment.

How am I chang'd! Alas, how am I grown A frightful spectre to myself unknown! For

You have to come in and be that character when you walk into the room. That's what one of my first acting teachers taught me. You know, don't go in there being Jennifer and then expect to flip and change, because they're not going to have that imagination.

Sometimes you have to explore the darkness to get to the light and get back to who you are.

Death isn't the end, it's the beginning.

You think I didn't fight the same fight? I halfway convinced myself that as long as Avery was just a riddle or a puzzle, as long as I was just playing, I'd be fine. Well, joke's on me, because somewhere along the way, I stopped playing.

I am an expert at not wanting to want things." I held my sword up for a moment longer, then lowered it, the way he'd lowered his. "But I'm starting to realize that the person I need to be, the person I'm becoming—she's not that girl anymore.

Sometimes, I felt like if I could just fold up into a small enough ball, my body would collapse on itself like a star, and I could supernova myself into a new existence.

I smiled half a smile at her puppy antics, wondering what it would be like to be able to join her, to shed my human skin and the confines that went with it and just live in the moment as a wolf. What would I look like with four legs and fur—would I be light-colored like Katie, or a darker timber, like Dev? I wondered if I would be velvet black with ice-blue eyes, like Chase.

They'd been sculpted by Tobias Hawthorne, formed and forged by the billionaire's hands. They were extraordinary, and for the first time in their lives, they weren't living under the weight of his expectations.

I'd spent my whole human life not making waves, hiding what I was, trying not to be noticed. Until now.

You know what they say about baptisms and fire.

I am an expert at not wanting to want things. But I'm starting to realize that the person I need to be, the person I'm becoming—she's not that girl anymore." I'd been given the world. It was time to stop living scared, time to take the reins. It was time to take risks.

They were a broken, twisted mess before you got here, and they will be a broken, twisted mess once you're gone

Mijn vermogen om het bange, weerloze meisje neer te zetten was nu wel verdwenen.

Soy una experta en no desear nada. Pero estoy empezando a darme cuenta que la persona que necesito ser, la persona en quien me estoy convirtiendo, ya no es esa chica.

Would you have hated me until you loved me?

They were a twisted, broken mess before you got here, and they'll be a twisted, broken mess once you're gone

How will we know if it's changing us?" I asked. "Maybe we won't. The biggest changes happen so slowly you hardly notice them.

If snow melts down to water, does it still remember being snow?

Growing fourteen inches in a summer is easy. It's growing out of a label that's hard.