Quotes about Transformation

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.

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

We can't solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them

The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.

Jesus was called to throw himself on the wheel of world history, so that, even though it crushed him, it might start to turn in the opposite direction. Tom Wright, The Lord and His Prayer (London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1996), 69.

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

The more the marbles wastes, the more the statue grows.