Quotes about Transformation
New life starts in the dark. Whether it is a seed in the ground, a baby in the womb, or Jesus in the tomb, it starts in the dark.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
I had done everything I knew how to do to draw as near to the heart of God as I could, only to find myself out of gas on a lonely road, filled with bitterness & self-pity. To suppose that I had ended up in such a place by the grace of God required a significant leap of faith. If I could open my hands, then all that fell from them might flower on the way down. If I could let myself fall, then I too might land in a fertile place.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
Time cures you first, and then it kills you.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Move on. Walk forward into the light.
— Barbara Kingsolver
You can't just sashay into the jungle aiming to change it all over to the Christian style, without expecting the jungle to change you right back.
— Barbara Kingsolver
People change, she said. Not everything stays with you all your life.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Emelina and I took each other in. All morning I'd felt the strange disjuncture that comes from reconnecting with your past. There's such a gulf between yourself and who you were then, but people speak to that other person and it answers; it's like having a stranger as a house guest in your skin.
— Barbara Kingsolver
The truest truth. For my whole sixteen years I've rarely thought I was worth much more than a distracted grumble from God. But now in my shelter of all things impossible, I drift in a warm bath of forgiveness, and it seems pointless to resist. I have no energy for improving myself. If Anatole can wrap all my rattlebone sins in a blanket and call me goodness itself, why then I'll just believe him.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Whole phases of her children's lives, these passions that had seemed to be their purest marrow, had faded away one after another. And character persisted.
— Barbara Kingsolver
People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them.
— Stephen Covey
Each of us guard a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside.
— Stephen Covey
We can only achieve quantum improvements in our lives as we quit hacking at the leaves of attitude and behavior and get to work on the root, the paradigms from which our attitudes and behaviors flow.
— Stephen Covey