Quotes about Transformation

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

Well, sir," Athey said, "where I used to be limber I'm stiff and where I used to be stiff I'm limber. Do you know what I'm talking about?

When my grandfather was dying, I was not thinking about the past. My grandfather was still a man I knew, but as he subsided day by day he was ceasing to be the man I had known. I was experiencing consciously for the first time that transformation in which the living, by dying, pass into the living, and I was full of grief and love and wonder. And so when I

It was as though I knew without exactly knowing, or felt, or smelled in the air, the already accomplished fact that nothing would ever be simple for me again. I never again would be able to put my life in a box and carry it away.

Though we invite, this healing comes in answer to another voice than ours; a strength not ours returns

My Mind became the root of my life rather than its sublimation.

Let the past abolish the past when -- and if -- it can substitute something better.