Quotes about Transformation

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.

You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

The men and women who are truly filled with light are those who have gazed deeply into the darkness of their own imperfect existence.

Just as the first sign of life in an infant when born into the world is the act of breathing, so the first act of men and women when they are born again is praying.

I get to represent a lot of different types of women because of my ability to transform into these different people.

Learn to master your thoughts and watch closely what you deposit into your spirit. Speak over your life. Living in peace has transformative power.

It is not the size of a seed, but the size of what rises from it.