Quotes about Transformation

We are not machines that can be repaired through a series of steps—we are relational beings who are transformed by the mystery of relationship.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.

"Then his flesh is renewed like a child's; it is restored as in the days of his youth."

You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.

Earth teach me to forget myself as melted snow forgets its life. Earth teach me resignation as the leaves which die in the fall. Earth teach me courage as the tree which stands all alone. Earth teach me regeneration as the seed which rises in the spring.

Instead of trying to conquer sin by working hard to change our actions, we can conquer sin by trusting Christ to change our affections.

An affection which is not inspired by the Lord will soon be transformed into lust. Samson is not alone in the history of man in failing in this regard. Delilah is still cutting the hair of man today!

Amazing grace! how sweet the sound That saved a wretch like me! I once was lost but now am found, Was blind but now i see.

The supreme task is to organize and unite people so that their anger becomes a transforming force.

The big idea of education, from first to last, is the idea of a better place. Not a better place where you are, because you want it to be better and have been to school and learned to make it better, but a better place somewhere else. In order to move up, you have got to move on.

Death is a sort of lens, thought I used to think of it as a wall or shut door. It changes things and makes them clear.

Let the fragments of love be reassembled in you. Only then will you have true courage. Hayden Carruth