Quotes about Transformation
We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.
— St. Augustine
Flowers often grow more beautifully on dung-hills than in gardens that look beautifully kept.
— Francis de Sales
Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.
— Saint Jerome
Christians are not born but made.
— Saint Jerome
The Dark Night of the Soul.
— John of the Cross
O night that joinedBeloved and loverLover into beloved transformed
— John of the Cross
the Spirit comes to us as a fire, either to be fanned into full flame and given the freedom to accomplish his will or to be doused and extinguished by the water of human fear, control, and flawed theology.
— Sam Storms
Gazing at the grandeur of heavenly glory transforms our value system. In
— Sam Storms
The wild vicissitudes of taste.
— Samuel Johnson
The thorn is one of the most cursed, and angry, and crabbed weeds that the earth yieldeth, and yet out of it springeth the rose, one of the sweetest-smelled flowers, and most delightful to the eye, that the earth hath. Your Lord shall make joy and gladness out of your afflictions; for all His roses have a fragrant smell. Wait for the time when His own holy hand shall hold them to your nose...
— Samuel Rutherford
Our pride must have winter weather to rot it.
— Samuel Rutherford
I see grace growth best in winter.
— Samuel Rutherford