Quotes about Transformation
How explain to him that she, who had been lapped like a lily in folds of paduasoy, had hacked heads off, and lain with loose women among treasure sacks in the holds of pirate ships?...
— Virginia Woolf
A tree trunk the size of a man grows from a blade as thin as a hair. A tower nine stories high is built from a small heap of earth.
— Lao Tzu
To be worn out is to be renewed.
— Lao Tzu
Change from the inside out involves a steadfast gaze upon our Lord that's life changing because it reflects a deep turning from a commitment to self-sufficiency. Without repentance, a look at Christ provides only the illusion of comfort.
— Larry Crabb
If we look for ways to get rid of necessary pain, we'll be disillusioned or misled. For people who define real change as the elimination of inevitable struggle, the final chapters will be terribly disappointing.
— Larry Crabb
There's no higher dream than experiencing God as He moves through every circumstance of life to an eternal encounter with Himself where transformed people will enjoy perfectly loving community around Jesus Christ, the source of Perfect Love.
— Larry Crabb
That day has come. God is now dealing with us in a new way. Our badness is no longer the obstacle to blessing. Nor is our goodness the condition for blessing.
— Larry Crabb
We'll never abandon ourselves to the Spirit as long as we think we can change without Him.
— Larry Crabb
Sometimes men are still boys, only wearing bigger clothes, until God takes them by the suspenders and gives them a good shake.
— Lauraine Snelling
Was she like the prairie, only slowly yielding to God's plow in her life? She needed busting, then backsetting, and finally after snow and sun and rain, the seeds could be planted that would sprout into living wheat.
— Lauraine Snelling
A new heart for a New Year, always!
— Charles Dickens
I will live in the past, the present, and the future. The spirits of all three shall strive within me.
— Charles Dickens