Quotes about Transformation

Now, with God's help, I shall become myself.

for our times are not satisfied with faith and not even with the miracle of changing water into wine - they 'go right on,' changing wine into water.

salvation consists primarily in his beginning to sorrow earnestly over himself!

Just as gold is purified in the fire, so the soul is purified in sufferings.

If anything is to be done, one must try to introduce Christianity into Christendom.

Only the lower natures forget themselves and become something new. For instance, the butterfly has entirely forgotten that it was a caterpillar; perhaps in turn it can forget that it was a butterfly so completely that it can become a fish. The

the Christianity of Christendom, takes this into account; it takes away from Christianity the offense, the paradox, etc., and instead of that introduces, probability, the plainly comprehensible. That is, it transforms Christianity into something entirely different from what it is in the New Testament, yea, into exactly the opposite; and this is the Christianity of Christendom, of us men.

Christianity is incendiarism; Christ Himself says, 'I am come to set fire on the earth'…official Christianity is not the Christianity of the New Testament.

He is not seeking a powerful people to represent Him. Rather, He looks for all those who are weak, foolish, despised, and written off: and He inhabits them with His own strength.

Your weakness can be turned to strength for God's glory.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle.

Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found it was ourselves.