Quotes about Transformation
There are three conversions necessary (for the Christian life): the conversion of the heart, the mind, and the purse.
— Martin Luther
The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger--but recognize the opportunity.
— John F. Kennedy
The Hebrew word for meek really means "to be molded."
— John Hagee
To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
— John Henry Newman
I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days - three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.
— John Keats
God-confidence comes as the Holy Spirit works in us. As we pray and when we make choices that honor God, the Holy Spirit fills us with His power for ministry. When we are filled with God's goodness, we are confidently and effectively able to share His love and joy. As women of prayer open to the transforming touch of the Holy Spirit, we will find his divine life in us overflowing into the lives of others.
— Elizabeth George
People are like stained glass windows they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light within.
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Seeking to be free of something and freed to something.
— Elizabeth Musser
Dying to something old, a pattern that is comfortable in its dysfunction, so that one can move to a different system, a new freedom.
— Elizabeth Musser
All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed; Second, it is violently opposed; Third, it is accepted as self-evident.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Life is a constant process of dying.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
The God of Scripture can only be known by those to whom He makes Himself known . Nor is God known by the intellect. "God is Spirit" (Joh 4:24), and therefore can only be known spiritually. But fallen man is not spiritual; he is carnal. He is dead to all that is spiritual. Unless he is born again, supernaturally brought from death unto life, miraculously translated out of darkness into light, he cannot even see the things of God (Joh 3:3), still less apprehend them (1Co 2:14).
— AW Pink