Quotes about Transformation

We are like travelers using the cinders of a volcano to roast their eggs.

Wherever a man comes, there comes a revolution. The old is for slaves.

There is no teaching until the pupil is brought into the same state or principle in which you are; a transfusion takes place; he is you and you are he; then is a teaching, and by no unfriendly chance or bad company can he ever quite lose the benefit.

Instead of trying to create a new religion from scratch, aim to breathe new life into the forms that already exist. If you are alive, you'll enliven all you touch. To revive faith from dead tradition, three things are needed: soul, soul, and more soul.

Over the winter glaciers I see the summer glow, And through the wild-piled snow-drift The warm rosebuds below.

From the earth, as a shore, I look out into that silent sea. I seem to partake its rapid transformations; the active enchantment reaches my dust, and I dilate and conspire with the morning wind.

Our strength grows out of our weakness

Heartily know, when half-gods go, the gods arrive.

Someday this upside-down world will be turned right side up. Nothing in all eternity will turn it back again. If we are wise, we will use our brief lives on earth positioning ourselves for the turn.

A Christ-centered church is not a showcase for saints but a hospital for sinners.

Our minds are so much set on Earth that we are unaccustomed to heavenly thinking. So we must work at it.

The kingdom of God . . . does not mean merely the salvation of certain individuals nor even the salvation of a chosen group of people. It means nothing less than the complete renewal of the entire cosmos, culminating in the new heaven and the new earth. Anthony Hoekema