Quotes about Transformation

We must become holy, not because we want to feel holy, but because Christ must be able to live his life fully in us.

It is a trap to presume that God wants to make us perfect specimens of what He can do— God's purpose is to make us one with Himself.

Our identification with Christ should be that whatever He is we also want to become.

We might think that God wanted simply obedience to a set of rules: whereas He really wants people of a particular sort.

Go straight for souls, and go for the worst.

We are Jesus Christ's; we belong to him. But even more, we are increasingly him. He moves in and commandeers our hands and feet, requisitions our minds and tongues. We sense his rearranging: debris into the divine, pig's ear into silk purse. He repurposes bad decisions and squalid choices. Little by little, a new image emerges.

I am the servant of all great individuals and, alas, of all failures, as well. Those who are great, I have made great. Those who are failures, I have made failures.

If you could envision the type of person God intended you to be, you would rise up and never be the same again.

Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.

We give people fish. We teach them to fish. We tear down the walls that have been built up around the fish pond. And we figure out who polluted it.

The greatest sin of political imagination: Thinking there is no other way except the filthy rotten system we have today.

So even as we see the horror of death, may we be reminded that in the end, love wins. Mercy triumphs. Life is more powerful than death. And even those who have committed great violence can have the image of God come to life again within them as they hear the whisper of love. May the whisper of love grow louder than the thunder of violence. May we love loudly.