Quotes about Transformation
Every time we say we believe in the Holy Spirit, we mean we believe that there is a living God able and willing to enter human personality and change it.
— John Owen
Temptations, when we meet them at first, are as the lion that reared upon Samson; but if we overcome them, the next time we see them we shall find a nest of honey within them.
— John Bunyan
Every time we pray our horizon is altered, our attitude to things is altered, not sometimes but every time, and the amazing thing is that we don't pray more.
— Oswald Chambers
There is a pile of dead bodies behind the Mars Hill bus, and by God's grace, it'll be a mountain by the time we're done.
— Mark Driscoll
Change is as inexorable as time, yet nothing meets with more resistance.
— Benjamin Disraeli
I believe that our Great Maker is preparing the world, in His own good time, to become one nation, speaking one language, and when armies and navies will be no longer required.
— Ulysses S. Grant
Peter needs tenderness. For the first time in his life he's discovered a girl; for the first time he's seen that even the biggest pests also have an inner self and a heart, and are transformed as soon as they're alone with you.
— Anne Frank
how different we were back then; we don't even recognize ourselves from that period.
— Anne Frank
Alone I had to face the difficult task of changing myself, to stop the everlasting reproaches, which were so oppressive and which reduced me to such terrible despondency.
— Anne Frank
Grace is the light or electricity or juice or breeze that takes you from that isolated place and puts you with others who are as startled and embarrassed and eventually grateful as you are to be there.
— Anne Lamott
It really IS easier to experience spiritual connection when your life is in the process of coming apart.
— Anne Lamott
I do not at all understand the mystery of grace—only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.
— Anne Lamott