Quotes About Transformation

little input of God's Word results in little resemblance to God's Son.

Prayerful people become godly people, for prayerfulness with God cultivates godliness in all of life.

To be like Jesus, we must see the use of our time as a Spiritual Discipline. Having

Si has dejado de vivir para ti mismo y para el pecado, y has confiado en Jesucristo y Su obra para justificarte delante de Dios, entonces el Señor te ha dado el Espíritu Santo.

Regardless of how busy we become with all things Christian, we must remember that the most transforming practice available to us is the disciplined intake of Scripture.

Creative power can pull down mountains of evil and level hilltops of injustice.

Beneath the chinaberry tree at the school, on the wide rolling clay earth scattered with fallen berries, he had thought himself homesick. But now he felt as though the place he wanted to be no longer existed in the world.

A change in purpose changes a system profoundly, even if every element and interconnection remains the same.

Wouldn't it be most logical for her to change herself into a living thing, like a cat or dog, a bird or mouse?' That would be the easiest transformation, but Risto is above doing something simple.' Still, I'd be happier if Dibl would quit eating those bugs. Dibl, stop it. You might eat Gilda.

Because then you would know my strength in Wulder instead of discovering your own.

It's amazing how the world begins to change through the eyes of a cup of coffee!

This is why working with our most deeply held resentments and grudges can bring about the greatest change, because it is here that we start to deconstruct the scaffolding upon which all our other points of view are based.

Rather, we can regularly ask ourselves these questions: Who am I becoming through this practice? Am I becoming the world in which I wish to live?

Yoga is thus not something we can make happen but something that happens to us. But it does not happen by accident.

The girl I am now, this girl--she survived. I just needed a little help getting here.

I would work my way toward the Rose from before, who laughed often, who felt things so deeply, who could move through the world brimming with feeling and emotion.

Turn your midlife crisis into your crowning achievement.

That's when Kat realized that "I had let go of my pain, my story of loss, my victimhood, the grief and fear and sense of failure and shame and guilt from so much abandonment. I had to say good-bye to all the negative emotions that I had embodied over the years. Because when I let go, I was greeted by a new, deeper layer of wholeness, a sense of inner freedom.

Gone was the cream and rose complexion he'd remembered. She was tan, which changed everything. What with the loose, wild hair, it lent an almost... heathenish edge, giving her normally pretty blue gaze a somewhat piercing, laser-like quality. Conversely, though she'd always been a sturdy thing, lithe, but strong and solid, at the moment, she looked... enveloped by the chef coat she wore, as if it were a size too big, or she'd suddenly grown smaller.

There is nothing like finding that one incredible woman who changes everything.

Of course, thirty would be nice again. I screwed that decade up and could really use a do-over.

We need to drive down requirements for the schools. In the 19th century, we increased the quality of the schools by higher education saying, 'You can't come in unless you have these skills, unless you've taken these courses.' We did that in Wisconsin when I was there, it helped to transform the secondary school system.

My life was changed in one breath from God.

If we're open to it, God can use even the smallest thing to change our lives... to change us. It might be a laughing child, car brakes that need fixing, a sale on pot roast, a cloudless sky, a trip to the woods to cut down a Christmas tree, a school teacher, a Dunhill Billiard pipe...or even a pair of shoes. Some people will never believe. They may feel that such things are too trivial, too simple, or too insignificant to forever change a life. But I believe. And I always will.