Quotes About Transformation

In the blithe days of honeymoon, With Kate's allurements smitten, I loved her late, I loved her soon, And call'd her dearest kitten. But now my kitten's grown a cat, And cross like other wives, O! by my soul, my honest Mat, I fear she has nine lives.

The touch of time does more than the club of Hercules.

So it was, your majesty, that I forever relinquished my sewing, and became a lovely peril, a flashing desolation, and an evil which smites by night, in spite of my abhorrence of irregular hours: and what I do I dislike extremely, for it is a sad fate to become a vampire, and still to sympathize with your victims, and particularly with their poor mothers.

The things that scare you the most are the things that bring you closer to who you're meant to be.

If you just amass the courage that is necessary, you can completely reinvent yourself. You can be your own hero.

Why am I really here? To hide myself away or to burst open?

is true. We change not by mustering up willpower but by changing the way we think, which will also involve changing our actions and our social environment. We change indirectly. We do what we can

Christ in me" means Christ bearing me along from within, Christ the motive power that carries me on, Christ giving my whole life a wonderful poise and lift, and turning every burden into wings . . . not as something you have to bear but as something by which you are borne.

The spiritual disciplines are wisdom, not righteousness. But they are wise practices that train and transform our hearts

A great event is taking place here, a great event in the world's destiny. It is taking place without injury or injustice to anyone; it is transforming waste places into fertile; it is planting trees and developing agriculture in desert lands; it is making for an increase in wealth and of cultivation; it is making two blades of grass from where one grew before.

we cannot cure our own brokenness nor can we manage it. Unfortunately, the longer we spend around the church the more we tend to ourselves less as sinners and more as people who are "getting it together" avoiding the deep transformation that Christ can only do in us!

The shed of leaves became a cascade of red and gold and after a time the trees stood skeletal against a sky of weathered tin. The land lay bled of its colors. The nights lengthened, went darker, brightened in their clustered stars. The chilled air smelled of woodsmoke, of distances and passing time. Frost glimmered on the morning fields. Crows called across the pewter afternoons.

Restlessness, therefore, is not to be regretted, but marshaled. Humans live toward.

separated Peter from the vile and suicidal Judas was that he, Peter, had lived long enough to find his offense transformed—through no merit of his own—by the loving acceptance of Jesus. The humiliated Peter was, in the same moment, the forgiven Peter.

To be human, therefore, is to be on the way to becoming something else.

Change is vital, improvement the logical form of change.

Success cannot come from standstill men. Methods change and men must change with them.

Imagine what you will do once you learn to refocus all the energy used in regret on over to baking more cakes.

Everyone forgets and or ignores the simple fact that 99.9% of people that God used in the bible were broken people, Convicts, Criminals etc. and not the high and mighty regular church attendees

Closeting your failures only prolongs your future

There is a world full of hidden gems and diamonds that require more than a natural eye to discover and also our flaws make us better, learn to embrace your shortcomings instead of hiding them and you will notice a big positive change take place in your life

Roughly fifty percent of procedure in a Marine basic-training program is about disconnecting the young American boy from his concept of himself as a unique individual, a lone operator.

If you cant look deep inside someone to see the butterfly building within then you deserve to watch the moth transform and fly away

new revolution of power which is liberating individuals at the expense of the twentieth-century nation-state.