Quotes about Transformation
If you come at the Bible as if it's a document of encyclopedic information, you've pretty much killed any kind of life change in a seeker and unbeliever.
- Erwin McManus
I went through an awkward adolescence and had braces.
- Christina Ricci
It is by suffering that human beings become angels.
- Victor Hugo
Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Society is a wave. The wave moves onward, but the water of which it is composed does not.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The surest poison is time.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing in nature is exhausted in its first use...In God, every end is converted into a new means.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
See yonder leafless tree against the sky, How they diffuse themselves into the air, And ever subdividing separate, Limbs into branches, branches into twigs, As if they loved the element, & hasted To dissipate their being into it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
In God, every end is converted into a new means. Thus the use of commodity, regarded by itself, is mean and squalid.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no object so foul that intense light will not make beautiful. And the stimulus it affords to the sense, and a sort of infinitude which it hath, like space and time, make all matter gay. Even the corpse has its own beauty.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson