Quotes about Transformation

Loss does different things to different people. Some fall apart. Some, like the Finder, rebuild. I have done both. I have crawled under my table and refused to come out. I have covered myself with thorns and tattoos. I have planted a garden, reached out to my neighbors, begun to write down my story.

Writing itself was a magical act in which imagination altered reality and gave form to power. To this end, the book was the most powerful element of all.

And I don't believe you dead. How can you be dead if I still feel you? Maybe, like God, you changed into something different that I'll have to speak to in a different way, but you not dead to me Nettie. And never will you be.

The world is changing, I said. It is no longer a world just for boys and men.

How do we make new and restorative of soul the old pain? How do we learn to carry with grace and humor all that has happened to us?

When we have changed everything we will eat congratulations with our tea.

Hope to sin only in the service of waking up.

In 2005, The Color Purple became a phenomenally successful Broadway musical, playing to packed houses every night for over a year. In the process it transformed the "Great White Way" into a place where people of all colors, orientations and identities gathered to experience the show and to celebrate "God" as Life and Love, Perseverance, Hope, Creativity and Joy.

You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.

We were old sinners - but when we came to Christ we are not sinners anymore.

Sometimes what works 40 years ago doesn't work today.

Maybe your situation is going to change when you change.