Quotes About Transformation

It is us he saves, not our lives. It is the person he dies for, not the suit of clothes in which the person hides from the bare truth about himself. He does not save you or me as we dress ourselves up at high noon on a good day; he saves us only as we stumble naked and uncombed from lumpy mattress to cold shower after a long, hard night - as, that is, we limp in faith from the bed of our death, through the blood of the cross, to the joy of his resurrection.

Grace cannot prevail until our lifelong certainty that someone is keeping score has run out of steam and collapsed.

Well, if you find yourself living by something that can't forgive ... then you die to it and look around for something that can.

Adapt or die, that's as true for religion as it is for people.

Queréis decir que una persona no puede cambiar si se juzga a sí misma o a los demás? ?preguntó el Caballero. Merlín asintió: ?Exactamente. Si juzga a otro, uno no se permite a sí mismo ver el cambio que experimenta.

Pressed into service means pressed out of shape.

Back out of all this now too much for us,Back in a time made simple by the lossOf detail, burned, dissolved, and broken offLike graveyard marble sculpture in the weather,There is a house that is no more a houseUpon a farm that is no more a farmAnd in a town that is no more a town.

Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found out it was ourselves.

A place where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.

I want to see a good miracle. I want to see a man with one leg, and then I want to see the other leg grow out.

I am become a name.

How often were you aware, while it happened, that you were living an hour that would change the course of your life forever?

But people who fundamentally change are rare, in my experience, because it's bloody hard work compared to going on a march or waving a flag. Have we met a single person on this case who's radically different to the person they were forty years ago?" "I don't know . . . I think I've changed," said Robin, then felt embarrassed to have said it out loud. Strike looked at her without smiling for the space it took him to chew and swallow a chip, then said, "Yeah. But you're exceptional, aren't you?

I'm totally serious. Look it up on the net. When women turn, they really turn.

A marked desire to be considered more than he felt himself to be; to become endowed, in fact, with that unpredictable, dangerous and transformative quality: fame.

Time had eroded all shock value.

how happy I should feel if I could succeed in bringing a little light into all this murky ugliness. Henrik Ibsen, Rosmersholm

Vext the dim sea: I am become a name…

She was a great improver of people, Margot—whether they wished to be improved or not,

too onerous to go, to readjust to civilian life. The army shaped you, almost imperceptibly, with the years; wore you into a surface conformity that made it easier to be swept along by the tidal force of

But none of us were ever quite the same afterward," said Dr. Gupta quietly. "One does not expect a friend to vanish into thin air without leaving a single trace behind them. There is something—uncanny about it.

because it was so much more comforting to believe that language alone could remake the world.

If the stress resulting from trying to resist change could be transformed into energy, we wouldn't have to worry about coming up with alternatives to fossil fuels.

If you feel that you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you.