Quotes about Transformation
The answer has something to do with love. Love that has to go through darkness and pain and endurance and a stark acceptance before it can come out into the far light of the sun.
— Madeleine L'Engle
It's better to take it out on God. He can cope with all our angers. That's one thing my long span of chronology has taught me. If I take all my anger, if I take all my bitterness over the unfairness of this mortal life, and throw it all to God, he can take it all and transform it into love before he gives it back to me.
— Madeleine L'Engle
believe God can come into the terrible things and redeem them.
— Madeleine L'Engle
You've been angry all week, Simon, but you're taking it out on the wrong things. It's better to take it out on God. He can cope with all our angers. That's one thing my long span of chronology has taught me. If I take all my anger, if I take all my bitterness over the unfairness of this mortal life, and throw it all to God, he can take it all and transform it into love before he gives it back to me.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Open your mind to a new pattern of thinking and your life will drastically change for the better.
— Mensah Oteh
If the caterpillar could not see beyond his present state, he would never become a butterfly.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Oh heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains.
— Khalil Gibran
The path of descent is the path of transformation. Darkness, failure, relapse, death, and woundedness are our primary teachers, rather than ideas or doctrines.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
What do I consider a teacher should be? One who breathes life into knowledge so that it takes new form in progress and civilization.
— Helen Keller
I wanted to go free, to be liberated once and for all from these two enemies, the body and the soul. I wanted to be a cloud. To be a stone on the surface of the moon.
— Amos Oz
You cannot write without looking behind you; like Lot's wife. And in doing so you turn yourself and them into blocks of salt.
— Amos Oz
You cannot write without looking behind you; like Lot's wife. And in doing so you turn yourself and them into blocks of salt.
— Amos Oz