Quotes about Transformation
Life consists in molting our illusions. We form creeds today only to throw them away tomorrow. The eagle molts a feather because he is growing a better one.
— Elbert Hubbard
O God, make the bad people good, and the good people nice
— Philip Yancey
... we need to reclaim the "goodnewness" of the gospel, and the best place to start is to rediscover the good news ourselves.
— Philip Yancey
All good ideas are terrible... Until people realize they are obvious. If you're not willing to live through the terrible stage, you'll never get to the obvious part.
— Seth Godin
The great Christian revolutions came not by the discovery of something that was not known before. They happen when someone takes radically something that was always there.
— H Richard Niebuhr
The two Virtues of Equanimity and Compassion become more available to the person whose ego-shell has been smashed-either by great suffering or by great love-or by both.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Thus there will be three effects of nearness to Jesus humility, happiness, and holiness.
— Charles Spurgeon
And from the midst of cheerless gloomI passed to bright unclouded day.
— Emily Bronte
The miracle of self-healing occurs when the inner patient yields to the inner physician.
— Vernon Howard
Resolved, to confess frankly to myself all that which I find in myself, either infirmity or sin; and, if it be what concerns religion, also to confess the whole case to God, and implore needed help.
— Jonathan Edwards
You cannot embrace your destiny if you do not let go of your history.
— Bishop TD Jakes
Our old history ends with the Cross; our new history begins with the resurrection.
— Watchman Nee