Quotes about Transformation
Scrooge was better than his word. He did it all, and infinitely more.
— Charles Dickens
It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; It is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.
— Charles Dickens
I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future!" Scrooge repeated, as he scrambled out of bed. "The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. Oh Jacob Marley! Heaven, and the Christmas Time be praised for this!
— Charles Dickens
I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future!" Scrooge repeated, as he scrambled out of bed. "The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. O Jacob Marley! Heaven and the Christmas-time be praised for this! I say it on my knees, old Jacob, on my knees!
— Charles Dickens
The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it: and Scrooge's name was good upon 'Change, for anything he chose to put his hand to. Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail. Mind! I don't mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a door-nail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece
— Charles Dickens
Some people laughed to see the alteration in him, but he let hem laugh, and little heeded them; fore he was wise enough to know that nothin ever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the outset
— Charles Dickens
although Sydney Carton would never be a lion, he was an amazingly good jackal,
— Charles Dickens
Every generation needs regeneration.
— Charles Spurgeon
You think it more difficult to turn air into wine than to turn wine into blood?
— Graham Greene
Laws, enforced by the sword, control behavior but cannot change hearts.
— Gregory Boyd
God's love sweeps away everything before it. It sweeps away your past, your pain, your fears, your regrets.
— Gregory Dickow
Through the reading of scripture, the people hear other stories about Jesus that enable them to move beyond the privateness of their own stories.
— James H. Cone