Quotes About Transformation

Jesus came to save me from myself. He came to save me from self-effort. He didn't just die for my sin to give me forgiveness

Forgiveness means that you are willing to give someone else a second chance to breathe in new life in his body. That is one of the greatest attribution of a Leader.

Everything changed...even the things we didn't want to.

For each person I lost I found a new layer of grief to cover myself with, and each time I tried to bring something of their essence into my own being - be it unconditional love, kindness and piety.

In Christ, there is newness of life.

Repent heart, rebirth of spirit.

I want something new. I want something I've never seen or heard or imagined. I want a spark. I want to be ignited. I want my flesh scorched and imagination set ablaze.

System consolidation, the process of transforming a short-term memory into a long-term one, can take years to complete. During that time, the memory is not stable.

Alchemy was (and is) considerably more than the attempt to turn base metals into gold. To an alchemist, all material things ripen toward perfection unless something gets in the way. The alchemist's mission is to remove the obstacles that keep material things from attaining their perfection. For metals, that perfection is gold; for the human body, health; for the human spirit, union with the divine-and all these and many more are appropriate goals for alchemical work.

I know that I hung on the windy tree Nine full nights, Pierced by a spear offered to Odin Myself to myself of which none knows Upon that tree Where its roots run...

Time, the subtle thief of youth

Spirits, when they please,Can either sex assume, or both.

Eas'd the putting offThese troublesome disguises which we wear.

This horror will grow mild, this darkness light.

Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another.

The great danger of maturation is calcification.

The modernization of Asia will forever reshape the world as we move toward the next millennium.

I once was lost but now I'm found, was blind but now I see.

rooted in incidents that at the time seemed insignificant.

I am not the man I ought to be, I am not the man I wish to be and I am not the man I hope to be, but, by the grace of God, I am not the man I used to be.

America may be unique in being a country which has leapt from barbarism to decadence without touching civilization.

If you look over the years, the styles have changed - the clothes, the hair, the production, the approach to the songs. The icing to the cake has changed flavors. But if you really look at the cake itself, it's really the same.

seventh choice to ignite a radically inspired life: choose to let go of fear and operate, lead, and live from a place of unconditional love.

Growth is the only evidence of life. The opposite is true, too. Stagnation is the first step to your grave.