Quotes about Transformation

Let, therefore, everyone who has shared in all the benefits which Christ has conferred upon us know that his whole life ought to conform to the death of Christ.

And when Paul discusses the restoration of the image, it is clear that we should infer from his words that man is made to conform to God, not by an inflowing of substance, but by the grace and power of the Spirit. For he says that by "beholding Christ's glory, we are being transformed into his very image… as through the Spirit of the Lord" [II Cor. 3:18], who surely works in us without rendering us consubstantial with God.

because he also is flesh.' In which language God complains, that the   order appointed by him has been so greatly disturbed, that his own   image has been transformed into flesh.   

The fact that the outer man decays from day to day does not hurt the believers' true Life. It even helps its growth, because the inner

No one truly belongs to the church and is counted among God's children, unless he first becomes a new man.

But this we may positively state, that nobody has made any progress in the school of Christ unless he cheerfully looks forward to the day of his death and to the day of the final resurrection.

Batter my heart, three-person'd God; for youAs yet but knock, breathe, shine, and seek to mend.

Batter my heart, three-person'd God; for, you As yet but knocke, breathe, shine, and seeke to mend; That I may rise, and stand, o'erthrow mee, 'and bend Your force, to breake, blowe, burn and make me new.

when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated; God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice; but God's hand is in every translation, and his hand shall bind up all our scattered leaves again, for that library where every book shall lie open to one another;

We die and rise the same, and prove Mysterious by this love.

Change is the nursery Of musicke, joy, life, and eternity. (Elegie III: Change)

Well-being changes as we move through life, which is why a child's version of it cannot be the same as an old person's.