Quotes about Transformation

The journey from teaching about love to allowing myself to be loved proved much longer than I realised.

As your mind is renewed by the Spirit of Truth, you will not see relationships as opportunities to take from others, but to give.

There is possibly nothing that can so radically change the Church and the lives of individual believers as having our criticisms changed into intercession

Rather than act like a victim who cannot do anything about myself or my circumstance, today I start the process of acknowledging my sin and removing these attitudes, actions, and sins that are unworthy of the new creation I am today in Christ. I can be free, and I will be free. I will be ALL that God intended for me to be!

Your Reality will become what You embrace.

We are products of our past, but we don't have to be prisoners of it.

If you have felt hopeless, hold on! Wonderful changes are going to happen in your life as you begin to live it on purpose.

Suffering, it turns out, demands profound imagination. A new future has to be conjured up because the old future isn't there anymore.

Agape doesn't love somebody because they're worthy. Agape makes them worthy by the strength and power of its love. Agape doesn't love somebody because they're beautiful. Agape loves in such a way that it makes them beautiful.

Jesus is God's way of refusing to give up his dream for the world.

The most oft-cited line of Newman's An Essay on the Development of Doctrine is situated in this context: "In a higher world it may be otherwise; but here below, to live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often." So indeed, Pope John's Newman-like image of the "flourishing garden of life" effectively holds off a stuffy traditionalism.

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