Quotes about Transformation
In case you've never thought about it, a woman's body changes much more rapidly than her character does.
— Gary Thomas
And yet,' she said gently, 'God hasn't come to a standstill.' Suddenly she laughed. 'I think you're like one of your own lumps of clay, Andy. God has a plan for you, and He's trying to get you into the centre of it, and you keep dodging and slithering away.' She turned her dark eyes on mine. 'How do you know? Maybe He wants to make you into something wonderful!
— Brother Andrew
The most important discovery of my whole life is that one can take a little rough cabin and transform it into a palace just by flooding it with God.
— Brother Lawrence
Sometimes I consider myself there as a stone before a carver, whereof he is to make a statue; presenting myself thus before GOD, I desire Him to form His perfect image in my soul, and make me entirely like Himself.
— Brother Lawrence
Our sanctification does not depend upon changing what we do, but in doing for God's sake what we normally do for our own sake.
— Brother Lawrence
He said that our sanctification does not depend as much on changing our activities as it does on doing them for God rather than for ourselves.
— Brother Lawrence
He had noticed a tree stripped of its leaves. He realized that in a little while the leaves would return, and the flowers and fruit would appear.
— Brother Lawrence
That our sanctification did not depend upon changing our works, but in doing that for GOD's sake, which we commonly do for our own.
— Brother Lawrence
It's time for us to stop playing religious games with God. It's time to get serious. It's no longer good enough just to "believe" in Jesus; we need to become His disciples. Churches should not be places where we come and get the water inside of us drained out. Rather, churches should be staging posts from where living water flows out into the communities and nations of the world.
— Brother Yun
As you think, so shall you become.
— Bruce Lee
Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.
— Bruce Lee
Empty your mind. Be formless, shapeless like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle. You put water in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water my friend.
— Bruce Lee