Quotes about Transformation

I shan't be lonely now. I was lonely; I was afraid. But the emptiness and the darkness are gone; when I turn back into myself now I'm like a child going at night into a room where there's always a light.

There is someone I must say goodbye to. Oh, not you - we are sure to see each other again - but the Lily Bart you knew. I have kept her with me all this time, but now we are going to part, and I have brought her back to you - I am going to leave her here. When I go out presently she will not go with me. I shall like to think that she has stayed with you.

But you'll get it back-you'll get it all back, with your face...

seemed like that moment of pause and arrest when the warm fluidity of youth is chilled into its final shape. He

Archer looked down with wonder at the familiar spectacle. It surprised him that life should be going on in the old way when his own reactions to it had so completely changed.

Life has a way of overgrowing its achievements as well as its ruins.

The important thing was the shedding of blood. Sounds barbaric, but the Old Testament was reminding us that there was a significant cost involved in moving from unclean to clean. You didn't have to pay it, but it still had to be paid.

Change starts, proceeds, and ends with Jesus. We look to Jesus and away from ourselves.

When the only one who has a right to be angry chooses love and service, when He considers the interests of others more important than His own and chooses humility—He changes everything (p. 55).

The fastest way to bring a wrecking ball to our skewed interpretations is through confession.

Deep change is rarely a matter of knowledge. It is a matter of repentance.

Every revolutionary ends as an oppressor or a heretic.