Quotes about Transformation
Lord, you are God! You made us. Who better to know how to fix us when we've gone wrong? who better to set us to rights again? Who better to love us through the fire and refine us into something beautiful and useful despite our wrongs?
— Francine Rivers
Open my eyes to see the wonderful truths in your instructions... Keep me from lying to myself... Help me abandon my shameful ways... I believe in your commands; now teach me good judgment and knowledge.
— Francine Rivers
Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my thoughts. Point out anything in me that offends you, and lead me along the path of everlasting life. PSALM 139:23-24
— Francine Rivers
She destroyed his dreams, and he made her wind chimes.
— Francine Rivers
Our work is to devote our own lives to pleasing God. It's that simple. We're to devote our efforts to learning to think as God thinks, to see ourselves and others through his eyes, to walk as he walked. That's our life's work.
— Francine Rivers
Please change me. Make me whatever suits Your purposes here.
— Francine Rivers
I am free. I am ransomed. I've never felt this way before, like a slave set free who was born a slave and never knew what freedom was like.
— Frank Peretti
The abyss remains. It is pregnant with all the things yet to be. Ah, what gentle violence!
— Frank Herbert
And those who pray for dew on the deserts edge; shall bring forth the deluge.
— Frank Herbert
In that instant, Paul saw how Stilgar had been transformed from the Fremen naib to a creature of the Lisan al-Gaib, a receptacle for awe and obedience. It was a lessening of the man, and Paul felt the ghost-wind of the jihad in it.
— Frank Herbert
The only permanence was fluid. Change was all that mattered.
— Frank Herbert
Paul crawled through the sphincter
— Frank Herbert