Quotes About Transformation

The path of the sinner back to God is brighter and brighter all the way up to the smile of the face and the touch of the hand; and that is salvation.

Divine love is incessantly restless until it turns all woundedness into health, all deformity into beauty, all embarrassment into laughter. In biblical faith, brokenness is never celebrated as an end in itself.

One's self is ever a tenuous thing, discovered only in relinquishment.

He blinked and then smiled at my attempt as a joke. My stomach twisted. Good grief. It was the first time he had smiled properly. I was lucky I was sitting down. The experience transformed his face and revealed a row of perfect white teeth. Those golden brown eyes glowed and a series of laughter lines creased his face. They were the sort of lines that did funny things to a woman's stomach, not to mention other places.

Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.

The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom...

For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?

Women will change the nature of power, rather than power changing the nature of women.

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Men are getting themselves turned into women at a rate of knots, but how many women are forking out wages to be turned into a poor, exploited man?

Boredom is the conviction that you can't change ... the shriek of unused capacities.

Revolution, and this is—

Fuck me, I thought. I can do magic.

The original house had been replaced by an indoor flower market with an arched iron and glass roof. Eliza Doolittle, as played by Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady, would have bought her violets there before moving off to display the worst cockney accent this side of Dick Van Dyke.

Perhaps, I thought, the dead god gets folded into the existence of the new god, the way a dormant genetic variation can exist within an organism's DNA—hanging about like an actor's understudy until the right environmental conditions give it expression and—hey presto—suddenly a bacteria is heat resistant, our Chloe gets her big break on Broadway and a sniper for hire gets an unexpected half a meter of cold steel through the chest. Perhaps

was done fucking about in the shadows—it was time to get legal.

This is perhaps a more useful way to think about the shape of time—not as a line or an arrow or a circle or a spiral, but something living, a circle that expands out of sight, invisible roots that grow and grow even as the parts we can see die off. "The world is always new," wrote Ursula K. Le Guin, "however old its roots.

And I twisted it wrong just to make it right Had to leave myself behind

If you're afraid they might discover your redneck past, there are a hundred ways to cover your redneck past.

Some actors seek parts similar to their personalities. But, I prefer undergoing a metamorphosis that depends on the role .

It will make a weak man mighty. it will make a mighty man fall. It will fill your heart and hands or leave you with nothing at all. It's the eyes for the blind and legs for the lame. It is the love for hate and pride for shame. That's the power of the gospel.

Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.

I sent thee late a rosy wreath,Not so much honoring theeAs giving it a hope that thereIt could not wither'd be.But thou thereon didst only breathe,And sent'st it back to me;Since when it grows and smells, I swear,Not of itself, but thee.

I've wasted the last five years of my life dealing in religious articles. People today find spiritual solace in ballroom dancing.