Quotes about Transformation

although Sydney Carton would never be a lion, he was an amazingly good jackal,

Every generation needs regeneration.

You think it more difficult to turn air into wine than to turn wine into blood?

Laws, enforced by the sword, control behavior but cannot change hearts.

God's love sweeps away everything before it. It sweeps away your past, your pain, your fears, your regrets.

Through the reading of scripture, the people hear other stories about Jesus that enable them to move beyond the privateness of their own stories.

The thief on the cross had to be the luckiest man alive. He was nothing more than a low-life criminal, a loser. He had committed a crime. He was convicted for it, and he was crucified for it. So he had no future; he was going nowhere; or worse, he was going to hell. Yet of all the criminals, on all the crosses, on all the hills in the Roman Empire, he was crucified next to Jesus Christ.

But instead of being con-formed to the world, Christians are to be changed from within to be increasingly like Jesus Christ.

I barely saw my mother, and the mom I saw was often angry and unhappy. The mother I grew up with is not the mother I know now. It's not the mother she became after my father died, and that's been the greatest prize of my life.

It is an absolutely unique success of the church community to have introduced such an epoch-making change, in just a few years, without having a serious division.

The Law of Divine Compensation posits that this is a self-organizing and self-correcting universe: the embryo becomes a baby, the bud becomes a blossom, the acorn becomes an oak tree. Clearly, there is some invisible force that is moving every aspect of reality to its next best expression.

The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge.