Quotes About Transformation

I looked up at myself in the mirror of my trailer. I had just had the most horrible conversation of my life, and the very last conversation I would ever have with my tormentor. I was free of him at last. I wonder what he would have done had he known that during that conversation, I was wearing high heels, a bra and panties, and a full face of makeup.

Sorrow is an inseparable dimension of our human experience. We suffer after a loss because we are human. And in our suffering, we are transformed.

It was a great softening, night and day it continued, a water funeral for the dying winter.

She wants to be flowers, but you make her owls. You must not complain, then, if she goes hunting.

That man's gaga," said Roger when they were out of hearing. "He's so far gone he's coming back.

Y había decidido que Persia, la misteriosa y exótica Persia, era el sitio donde se convertiría en alguien, donde haría que la sociedad valorará su diferencia y no la excluyera por ella

In a very real and sobering way, we must actually become the gospel to the people around us—an expression of the real Jesus through the quality of our lives.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. — ABRAHAM LINCOLN, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

It is only when the people of God as a whole are activated in a movement that real world transformation takes place.

A mind that is stretched to a new idea never returns to its original dimension. —Oliver Wendell Holmes

The great Christian revolutions came not by the discovery of something that was not known before. They happen when someone takes radically something that was always there. —H. Richard Niebuhr

Transformation happens less by arguing cogently about something new than by generating active new practices that shift the experience of the basis for reality. In other words, the best way of making ideas have impact is to embed them into the very rhythms and habits of the community in the form of common tools and practices.

the church (the ecclesia), when true to its real calling, when it is on about what God is on about, is by far and away the most potent force for transformational change the world has ever seen.

C. S. Lewis rightly understood that the purpose of the church was to draw people to Christ and make them like Christ. He said that the church exists for no other purpose. "If the Church is not doing this, then all the cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible, are a waste of time.

They civilize what's pretty By puttin' up a city Where nothin' that's Pretty can grow.... They civilize left They civilize right Till nothing is left Till nothing is right

All to often, however, what she [the woman] does want is the man she hopes she will make out of the man she already has.

Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.

Technology is anything invented after you were born.

The Christians' focus was not on "saving" people or recruiting them; it was on living faithfully—in the belief that when people's lives are rehabituated in the way of Jesus, others will want to join them.

As Tertullian put it around AD 200, "Christians are made, not born." 4

You wear a mask for so long, you forget who you were beneath it.

EVERY SIN CAUSES a special anxiety on the spirit, which can only be erased by repentance, which transforms the anxiety itself into inner security and courage. —RABBI ABRAHAM ISAAC KOOK (1865–1935)

You can change what is written in your horoscope. By acting at your lowest good, you can turn an otherwise very good horoscope into a very challenging life. But by acting by your highest good you can definitely transform an astrological lemon of a chart into terrestrial lemonade. The sugar is consciousness.

Before we can pray, "Lord, Thy Kingdom come," we must be willing to pray, "My Kingdom go.