Quotes about Transformation

You only need to lose track of who you are, or who you thought you were supposed to be, so that you end up lying flat on the dirt floor basement of your heart. Do this, Jesus says, and you will live.

The whole purpose of the Bible, it seems to me, is to convince people to set the written word down in order to become living words in the world for God's sake. For me, this willing conversion of ink back to blood is the full substance of faith.

The faith that had sustained them through their middle years had gotten as tight as their old clothes. Their views of God, scripture, the church, and the world were all under renovation.

How many times since then have I rejected Love because it did not present itself the way I expected, in a form acceptable to me?

All these years later, the way many of us are doing church is broken and we know it, even if we do not know what to do about it.

The soul does not grow by addition but by subtraction," wrote the fourteenth-century mystic Meister Eckhart.

if you always do what you have always done, then you will always get what you have always got. Extreme measures are sometimes called for, and these measures sometimes even produce results.

I have lived through parts of life that no one in her right mind would ever willingly have chosen, finding enough overlooked treasure in them to outweigh my projected wages in the life I had planned. These are just a few of the reasons that I have decided to stop fighting the prospect of getting lost and engage it as a spiritual practice instead.

Don't use your words to describe your reality. Use your words to create your desired reality.

Sanctification consists of the daily realization that in Christ we have died, and in Christ we have been raised.

The human race is evolving to the realization that what is happening on the level of consciousness both precedes and determines what happens in the world.

I will conquer Femmeness... And then, I will turn it on its head and redefine it for the world to see.