Quotes About Transformation

Let a man be right with God, reconciled through the blood of the cross, humbled at the foot of Calvary; let him be broken, coming to God guilty and hopeless and needy; and at that moment God takes hold of him and transforms and uses all his gifts and qualities, until that man becomes a mighty influence. But he has first to come down from his ladder of pride to the very foot of the cross.

It takes but a moment to make a convert; it takes a lifetime to manufacture a saint.

The conversion of a soul is the miracle of a moment, but the manufacture of a saint is the task of a lifetime.

God doesn't want new methods; He wants new men.

The only principle I'm prepared to absolutely commit to, with absolute certainty, is that I can change my mind.

I keep hoping that one day I will arise reborn from my phoenix dreams instead of feeling like day-after barbecue.

The recessional of "Amazing Grace" was familiar to all. John Newton had written the hymn, and I wondered how many people in the church knew that he'd been a slave-ship captain before realizing the error of his ways and becoming an abolitionist.

Sometimes I think that I've never been so free as during that couple of hours when I'm trotting up the path out of the gates and turning by that bare-faced, big-bellied oak tree at the lane end. Everything's dead, but good, because it's dead before coming alive, not dead after being alive.

Everything's dead, but good, because it's dead before coming alive, not dead after being alive. That's how I look at it.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

One day you will tell me how to change what I cannot yet describe without my words swelling HUGE, vowels vanishing, tears washing ink away.

Modern places are made up of layers of incomplete visions of the future, and the result is a permanent state of impermanence.

The city is a place where nature is excised and then mourned, killed off then raised from the dead, only to be entombed in caged-off spaces of floral tribute.

The most fascinating places are often also the most disturbing, entrapping, and appalling. They are also often temporary. In ten years' time most of the places we will be exploring will look very different; many will not be there at all.

And there is but a step from a she-ass to a woman.

the incantations which could shatter a mind into ones and zeros; pure number.

Losing has changed my whole persona about fighting.

People have told me, 'It's part of your act, you're big, it's part of your persona.' Well, as I've lost weight, my act has grown.

'Faith and Will' sprang from my personal experience with passing through a dark spiritual time.

My character in 'Cocktail' was different from my personality. Homi Adajania took me to London, showed me how girls dress and behave there. I had not seen that kind of lifestyle before.

When you are chiselling a sculpture, it won't happen in one day, it happens over a period of time. It's the same way that my personality has changed over the past 15 years. I am not the same person I used to be and my life experiences are what have made me.

Getting into music has changed my personality and way of doing things. I'm far more open now.

You kind of restructure your whole personality to be in a healthy relationship.

'Change' is seen as a dirty word, but personally, I'm searching for it.