Quotes About Transformation

Jesus thrown everything off balance.

Who's there?" the voice from inside said and there was a quality about it now that seemed final. The knob rattled and the voice said peremptorily, "Who's there, I ast you?" Parker bent down and put his mouth near the stuffed keyhole. "Obadiah," he whispered and all at once he felt the light pouring through him, turning his spider web soul into a perfect arabesque of colors, a garden of trees and birds and beasts.

Hazel Motes sat at a forward angel on the green plush train seat, looking one minute at the window as if he might want to jump out of it, and the next down the aisle at the other end of the car.

My dear God, I am impressed with how much I have to be thankful for in a material sense; and in a spiritual sense I have the opportunity of being even more fortunate. But it seems apparent to me that I am not translating this opportunity into fact.

You found out more when you left where you lived. He had found out already this morning that he had been made by a carpenter named Jesus Christ.

You remain what you are. - Everything That Rises Must Converge

I come a long way since I would believe anything. I come halfway around the world.

You found out more when you left where you lived. He had found out already this morning that he had been made by a carpenter named Jesus Christ. Before he had thought it had been a doctor named Sladewall ....

The graduates in their heavy robes looked as if the last beads of ignorance were being sweated out of them.

Everything That Rises Must Converge

Therefore, so long as we live in this fallen world, we are simul iustus et peccator (saint and sinner simultaneously), until the destruction of the old Adam is completed as God makes all things new (Rev. 21:5; Isa. 42:9; 43:19; Gal. 6:15).

It is God's new creative act, his great reclamation project that is even greater than the creation itself, because whereas we are "wonderfully created," we are "yet more wonderfully restored."30

In the present time, God's "wording" (logizomai) of his new creation proceeds largely in a hidden way. The invincible transforming power of God's coming future is acting simultaneously in and through the deeply flawed realities of the present human situation.

The Son of God did not come to make good people better but to give life to the dead.

In other words, God's righteousness involves not only a great reversal ("the first will be last") but also an actual transformation and re-creation.

With 'Battlestar Galactica,' we had such resistance from the fan base to changing it. The upshot was, we ultimately won them over.

I didn't use to really dress up too too much, but I've ventured out to getting dress shoes and nice casual shoes to wear and things like that, which I usually wouldn't have done because I didn't have the money to do. Now I do. So I've gotten a little fancy.

I feel like I've accomplished all my fantasies and childhood dreams. I had nothing; now I have everything.

One character I always thought I could play is the Thing from 'Fantastic Four.' Another character I've always loved as a fan is Colossus. If there was a way to make that happen that worked, I would love to be Colossus.

The process of the body changing and making a whole human fascinates me.

Everything has changed, and nothing has changed more than the world of fashion.

I was such a late bloomer when it comes to fashion.

The fashion industry needs to breed a whole different way of thinking. We need more diverse people working in all facets of the industry.

Before I got into TV, I wasn't fashionable at all.