Quotes about Transformation

Suffering and loss have this extraordinary capacity to alert and awaken us to the gift that life is.

It's very common to hear talk about heaven framed in terms of who "gets in" or how to "get in." What we find Jesus teaching, over and over and over again, is that he's interested in our hearts being transformed, so that we can actually handle heaven.

heaven has the potential to be a kind of starting over. Learning how to be human all over again. Imagine living with no fear.

Particles couldn't contain the fullness of Spirit, and that led to something new.

And now here's the twist, the mystery, the unexpected truth about admitting that takes us back to the counterintuitive power of gospel: When you come to the end of yourself, you are at that exact moment in the kind of place where you can fully experience the God who is for you.

Spirit is often lurking in whatever it is you most dislike.

Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found it was ourselves.

Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting.

Life peels us like an onion and every layer is softer and sweeter.

A holy relationship is where the brokenness and wounds of the world are not escaped so much as as transformed by love, not hidden from but risen above.

Let me beg you, not to rest contented with the commonplace religion that is now so prevalent.

If your religion has not changed your life, you'd better change your religion.