Quotes about Transformation
What is that which gleams through me, and strikes my heart without hurting it; and I shudder and kindle? I shudder, inasmuch as I am unlike it; I kindle, inasmuch as I am like it.
— St. Augustine
Entrust Truth, whatsoever thou hast from the Truth, and thou shalt lose nothing; and thy decay shall bloom again, and all thy diseases be healed, and thy mortal parts be reformed and renewed, and bound around thee.
— St. Augustine
We make a ladder of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
— St. Augustine
Love all men, even your enemies; love them, not because they are your brothers, but that they may become your brothers. Thus you will ever burn with fraternal love, both for him who is already your brother and for your enemy, that he may by loving become your brother. ... Even he that does not as yet believe in Christ ... love him, and love him with fraternal love. He is not yet thy brother, but love him precisely that he may be thy brother.
— St. Augustine
He who goes about to reform the world must begin with himself, or he loses his labor.
— Ignatius of Loyola
From the moment we claim the truth of being the beloved, we are faced with the call to become who we are.
— Henri Nouwen
Nothing is yet in its true form.
— CS Lewis
The success of God's Word in our lives is linked intrinsically to our application of its truth.
— Joni Eareckson Tada
The truth is that, though we were justified by faith alone, the faith that justifies is never alone (it always produces fruit, 'good works,'...a transformed life).
— JI Packer
The whites of the younger generation, in the colleges and universities, will see the handwriting on the wall and many of them will turn to the spiritual path of truth.
— Malcolm X
Feed on Christ, and then go and live your life, and it is Christ in you that lives your life, that helps the poor, that tells the truth, that fights the battle, and that wins the crown.
— Phillips Brooks
Truth breaks you down so it can rebuild you according to its specifications in Heaven.
— Vernon Howard