Quotes about Transformation

Christian faith isn't just a conviction, a feeling and a decision. It invades life so deeply that we have to talk about dying and being born again, which is what corresponds to the death and resurrection of Christ.

The strange thing about Christianity was that it adopted an entirely different method. It transformed the lives of men not by appealing to the human will, but by telling a story; not by exhortation, but by the narration of an event.

A natural leader by any measure, Paul became a great spiritual leader when his heart and mind were captured by Jesus Christ.

How easy it is to love a child, how hard to love what a child turns into!

O hell, I'm sick of life - If I had any guts I'd drown myself in that tiresome water but that wouldn't be getting it over at all, I can just see the big transformations and plans jellying down there to curse us up in some other wretched suffering form eternities of it - I guess that's what the kid feels - She looks so sad down there wandering Ophelialike in bare feet among thunders.

I woke up from a deep sleep to find everybody sleeping like lambs and the car parked God knows where, because I couldn't see out the steamy windows. I got out of the car. We were in the mountains: there was a heaven of sunrise, cool purple airs, red mountainsides, emerald pastures in valleys, dew, and transmuting clouds of gold; on the ground gopher holes, cactus, mesquite. It was time for me to drive on.

She looked exactly like the little girl she had been.

Only God can change a season of war into a season of peace. Would you agree with me in prayer for peace?

Love is eternal, the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Because it is the nature of love to create, a marriage itself is something which has to be created, so that, together we become a new creature.

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

I do not at all understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.