Quotes about Transformation

That's our job as Christians—to perpetually bring renewal and supply everywhere we go. When things get out of hand and situations on earth start to go wild (whether it's the economy, or politics, or natural disasters) we're not supposed to jump into the flow of negativity with everyone else and start talking about how bad things are. We're supposed to change them! We're

Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.

The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth.

The son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God.

The only way I know to drive out evil from the country is by the constructive method of filling it with good.

In fact it seems to me as if that alienation which so long separated me from the world has become transferred into my own inner world, and has revealed to me an unexpected unfamiliarity with myself.

No culture of the mind is enough to make a garden out of your soul.

The resurrection constitutes, as it were, the womb of the new aeon, out of which believers issue as, in a new, altogether unprecedented, sense, sons of God: "They are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection," therefore they neither marry, nor are given in marriage (Lk. xx. 35-36).

Whether one says: the body of humiliation is transformed into a body of glory, or says, the corruptible puts on incorruption, the mortal immortality, makes no difference whatever as to the principle of continuity.

The Spirit's work in the renewal of things proceeds according to a fixed, systematic method, in certain distinct stages.