Quotes about Transformation
I look at tens of thousands of church leaders who still do need a bit of an awakening.
— Bill Hybels
In this world there is very little harmony between the inner and the outer life. But, if we live according to the will of God, then the time will come when there will be perfect harmony between the inner and the outer life for ever. The outer will be exactly like the inner and the inner exactly like the outer. And by his grace we shall become perfect like our Father in Heaven.
— Sadhu Sundar Singh
The only condition necessary for us to break out of our material limitations and attain spiritual life is that we accept the life-giving warmth of God's spirit, just as the chick receives its mother's warmth. Without that warmth, we will not take on the nature of the Spirit, and we may die without ever hatching out of this material body.
— Sadhu Sundar Singh
Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.
— St. Augustine
It was pride that changed angels into devils it is humility that makes men as angels.
— St. Augustine
Too late I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient and ever new! Too late I loved you! And, behold, you were within me, and I out of myself, and there I searched for you.
— St. Augustine
We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.
— St. Augustine
Flowers often grow more beautifully on dung-hills than in gardens that look beautifully kept.
— Francis de Sales
Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.
— Saint Jerome
Christians are not born but made.
— Saint Jerome
The Dark Night of the Soul.
— John of the Cross
O night that joinedBeloved and loverLover into beloved transformed
— John of the Cross