Quotes about Transformation

As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn't leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I'd still be in prison.

I never lost hope that this great transformation would occur (...) I always knew that deep down in every human heart, there was mercy and generosity. No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.

In my country we go to prison first and then become President.

One of the most difficult things is not to change society — but to change yourself.

I was a hotheaded young man who attempted to make up for his ignorance with militancy.

If you can't get a miracle, become one.

Think positively about yourself.... ask God who made you to keep on remaking you.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.

But it also crossed my mind that in spite of all, in spite of our fragility and ignorance, we have an incredible advantage over the stars — it is for us that time works, giving us a major opportunity to transform the suffering, aching world into a happy and peaceful one.

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimension.

The Christianization of the modern world is leading to the modernization of the Christian faith and away from the way of Jesus. Similarly, as we shall see, the Christianization of America has led to the Americanization of the Christian faith and away from the way of Jesus.