Quotes about Transformation
There is so much that is deaf and dumb in man, and so much that is paralyzed, so much that is shrunken, that nothing short of a miraculous touch of re-creation can make them at death perfect beings.
— Henry Ward Beecher
The Devil often transforms himself into an angel to tempt men, some for their instruction, some for their ruin.
— St. Augustine
The saved man is not a perfect man, but his heart's desire is to become perfect.
— Charles Spurgeon
The greatest compliment of the book One Thousand Gifts? Maybe the Muslim man in Iraq who was given the book and came to a saving knowledge of Jesus, wanted to live his life in thanks to God?
— Ann Voskamp
What is it to bring the man out of his sepulchre if you leave him dead? Why lead him into the light if he is still blind? We thank God, that he who forgives our iniquities also heals our diseases.
— Charles Spurgeon
The conversion of Paul was no conversion at all; it was Paul who converted the religion that has raised one man above sin and death.
— George Bernard Shaw
A man who has broken with his past feels a different man. He will not feel it a shame to confess his past wrongs, for the simple reason that these wrongs do not touch him at all.
— Mahatma Gandhi
When a man understands who he is, who God is, who the devil is... then he can pick himself up out of the gutter; he can clean himself up and stand up like a man should before his God.
— Malcolm X
One day man by the slow processes of evolution shall develop into something really fine and high - some billions of years hence, say.
— Mark Twain
Religion would save a man; Christ would make him worth saving.
— Henry Ward Beecher
I grew up in a difficult environment, but I became a Christian as a teen. My mom and my sister soon became Christians also.
— Melody Carlson
The morning glories and the sunflowers turn naturally toward the light, but we have to be taught, it seems.
— Fr. Richard Rohr