Quotes about Transformation
Love is the only creative, redemptive, transforming power, in the universe.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Faith shows us that we are never alone. Transformation helps us to love the mystery.
— Paulo Coelho
The rich fop Francis of Assisi was bored all his life-until he fell in love with Christ and gave all his stuff away and became the troubadour of Lady Poverty.
— Peter Kreeft
My wheelchair was the key to seeing all this happen—especially since God's power always shows up best in weakness. So here I sit … glad that I have not been healed on the outside, but glad that I have been healed on the inside. Healed from my own self-centered wants and wishes.
— Joni Eareckson Tada
Because the world is revealed, to an indeterminate degree, through the template of your values. If the world you are seeing is not the world you want, therefore, it's time to examine your values. It's time to rid yourself of your current presuppositions. It's time to let go. It might even be time to sacrifice what you love best, so that you can become who you might become, instead of statiny who you are.
— Jordan Peterson
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.
— Joseph Addison
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
— Joseph Addison
The greatest reformation should be among those who have been the greatest sinners.
— Joseph Addison
If thy hope be any thing worth, it will purify thee from thy sins.
— Joseph Alleine
Prayers are tools not for doing or getting, but for being and becoming.
— Eugene Peterson
Some of us try desperately to hold on to ourselves, to live for ourselves. We look so bedraggled and pathetic doing it, hanging on to the dead branch of a bank account for dear life, afraid to risk ourselves on the untried wings of giving. We don't think we can live generously because we have never tried. But the sooner we start the better, for we are going to have to give up our lives finally, and the longer we wait the less time we have for the soaring and swooping life of grace.
— Eugene Peterson
Even though on the outside it often looks like things are falling apart on us, on the inside, where God is making new life, not a day goes by without his unfolding grace.—2 Corinthians 4:16
— Eugene Peterson