Quotes about Becoming
Trust the wait. Embrace the uncertainty. Enjoy the beauty of becoming. When nothing is certain, anything is possible
— Mandy Hale
If these seeds would take root in my liberty, and if His will would grow from my freedom, I would become the love that He is, and my harvest would be His glory and my own joy. And
— Thomas Merton
She became, and her process of becoming was like most of ours: she developed a hatred for things that mystified or obstructed her; acquired virtues that were easy to maintain; assigned herself a role in the scheme of things; and harked back to simpler times for gratification.
— Toni Morrison
The knowledge of the cross brings a conflict of interest between God who has become man and man who wishes to become God.
— Jurgen Moltmann
If you're not living your destiny as you journey, you won't be able to live it after you reach your destination. Destiny is not only a destination, a goal, a dream, a purpose; it is an inner process of becoming all you were meant to be. You are educated before you get the degree.
— Bishop TD Jakes
The knowledge of the cross brings a conflict of interest between God who has become man and man who wishes to become God.
— Jurgen Moltmann
AS BELIEVERS, WE ARE NOT TRYING TO BECOME SAINTS; WE ARE SAINTS WHO ARE BECOMING LIKE CHIRST.
— Neil Anderson
Living, there is no happiness in that. Living: carrying one's painful self through the world. But being, being is happiness. Being: becoming a fountain, a fountain on which the universe falls like warm rain.
— Milan Kundera
Becoming the beloved is pulling the truth revealed to me from above down into the ordinariness of what I am, in fact, thinking of, talking about and doing from hour to hour.
— Henri Nouwen
The willingness to keep growing: Unfaithfulness is a refusal to become, a rejection of grace (grace that is inactive is an illusion), and the refusal to be oneself.
— Brennan Manning
If it is true that we not only are the Beloved, but also have to become the Beloved; if it is true that we not only are children of God, but also have to become children of God; if it is true that we not only are brothers and sisters, but also have to become brothers and sisters... if all that is true, how then can we get a grip on this process of becoming? If the spiritual life is not simply a way of being, but also a way of becoming, what then is the nature of this becoming?
— Henri Nouwen
Becoming a child is living the Beatitudes and so finding the narrow gate into the Kingdom.
— Henri Nouwen