Quotes about Transformation
Clearly, human transformative activity depends upon a transformed imagination. Numbness does not hurt like torture, but in a quite parallel way, numbness robs us of our capability for humanity.
— Walter Brueggemann
Observance of the freedom God has to change causes a terrible unsettling among the faithful.
— Walter Brueggemann
If one is linked to a flat, one-dimensional faith, then this verse is a bitter loss of faith . But if we think in terms of obedience on its way to risky imagination, then this verse is an opening for new faith beyond the conventions and routines that secure but do not reckon with God's awefulness .
— Walter Brueggemann
The key players, it turns out, are those who refuse to be credentialed or curbed by traditional modes of power, who understand that the transformative power of truth is not a credible companion for consolidating modes of established power, but that truth characteristically runs beyond the confines of such power.
— Walter Brueggemann
Those who sign on and depart the system of anxious scarcity become the historymakers in the neighborhood.
— Walter Brueggemann
The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.
— Washington Irving
Our old history ends with the Cross; our new history begins with the resurrection.
— Watchman Nee
All satanic works are performed from the outside inward; all divine works from the inside outward.
— Watchman Nee
Do ye not comprehend that we are worms, Born to bring forth the angelic butterfly That flieth unto judgment without screen?
— Dante Alighieri
Because of the fall of Adam and Eve and the natural sinfulness of the human heart that was passed onto all of us, there are those who will oppose God with all their strength. Paul was one of them. It was on his way to persecute believers in Jesus Christ that Jesus knocked him off his horse, blinded him, and spoke directly to him: "Saul! Saul! Why are you persecuting me?" (Acts 9:4). Never, never, never give up on the person in your life who seems most opposed to the gospel.
— Darlene Zschech
Since Jesus went through everything you're going through and more, learn to think like him. Think of your sufferings as a weaning from that old sinful habit of always expecting to get your own way. Then you'll be able to live out your days free to pursue what God wants instead of being tyrannized by what you want. 1 Peter 4:1—2, THE MESSAGE
— Darlene Zschech
Jesus is revealed in the changed lives of His beloved children.
— Darlene Zschech