Quotes About Transformation

A fourth factor is a larger sea change in the way we view history.With

If it is all up to me to live a consistently whole and healthy spiritual life, then the dry bones of my dry soul will not live. If it is all up to preachers like you and me to keep a local congregation alive in community and ministry, then we may as well close the doors right now. If it is all up to you, me and all the other preachers alive today to bring about a moral revolution breaking the chains that bind us, then our world is doomed.

There's something different about you," he says. "I've started styling my hair differently," I laugh. "Oh. I thought it was that you were three feet taller, a hell of a lot broader, look like a werewolf, and are naked expect for that bit of cloth around your waist. But you're right - it's the hair.

For a long time that's all I could do, howl and scream and cry like the wild animal of the night that I'd become.

Today is the same as yesterday and tomorrow, but different.

This isn't just a book about organizational change—it's also about

And I am flawed but I am cleaning up so well.

The world had changed since place names were invented.

I don't like it, but as they say you can't make chickens without breaking eggs." The

Are you open to the possibility that there is one who created you to be who you are and calls you to be who he alone knows you can be? Then listen to Jesus of Nazareth and his two words that changed the world—"Follow me." —OS GUINNESS

GOD: I own you like I own the caves. THE OCEAN: Not a chance. No comparison. GOD: I made you. I could tame you. THE OCEAN: At one time, maybe. But not now. GOD: I will come to you, freeze you, break you. THE OCEAN: I will spread myself like wings. I am a billion tiny feathers. You have no idea what's happened to me.

We first must plant the gospel in the hearts and lives of people and then see what form of ecclesia emerges from the transformed community. If we begin with the premise that we are starting a "church," it will often come loaded with intuitional and cultural assumptions. Churches should grow out of the mission, not the other way around.

Thus, some individuals may skip certain stages, or blend them, or pass through them so fleetingly that they do not even acknowledge their presence.

In only 8 to 12 weeks, a newly hatched duckling is transformed into a young adult.

Omigosh—I'm a squash!

She feels like kicking out all the windows And setting fire to this life She could change everything about her using colors bold and bright

Everybody's a bird, locked up in a pretty cage. Sometimes you fly to a slightly bigger one, but you never quite have the courage to abandon captivity completely.

Siamo tutti uccellini, ciascuno nella sua deliziosa gabbietta. A volte voliamo fino a un'altra gabbia un po' più grande ma non abbiamo mai il coraggio di abbandonare completamente la nostra prigionia".

In our hearts we know that with a different fate, we, too, could be in the ranks of the dispossessed, stripped of our identities and belonging nowhere. The refugee becomes a sinister symbol of what can quickly happen once personhood is denied and people are transformed into disposable units of contemptible impediments to the greed or power-mongering of others.

Good to Great by my friend Jim Collins.

Therefore, the only thing that stands between us and any kind of miracle is the fleshly pattern or system of thought that has captivated us in the realm of the soul.

As the Holy Spirit prays for us, He purges us on three levels: spirit, soul, and body.

Our fasting doesn't move God; it moves us to a place where we can receive from God.

IF A MAJORITY IN EVERY CIVILIZED COUNTRY SO DESIRED, WE COULD, WITHIN 20 YEARS, ABOLISH ALL ABJECT POVERTY, QUITE HALF THE ILLNESS IN THE WORLD, THE WHOLE ECONOMIC SLAVERY WHICH BINDS DOWN NINE TENTHS OF OUR POPULATION; WE COULD FILL THE WORLD WITH BEAUTY AND JOY, AND SECURE THE REIGN OF UNIVERSAL PEACE.