Quotes about Metamorphosis
We shed skins in life, to keep living.
- John Updike
We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
- Joseph Campbell
Everything has its limit--iron ore cannot be educated into gold.
- Mark Twain
God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.
- John Donne
The hotter the furnace the finer the gold.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
Today's caterpillars are tomorrow's butterflies.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
When a caterpillar looks in the mirror, he sees a butterfly.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
Beware of harking back to what you were once when God wants you to be something you have never been. "If any man will do . . . , he shall know .
- Oswald Chambers
Then the Spirit of the LORD will rush upon you, and you will prophesy with them; and you will be transformed into a different person.
- 1 Samuel 10:6
Food may come from the earth, but from below it is transformed as by fire.
- Job 28:5
There He was transfigured before them. His face shone like the sun, and His clothes became as white as the light.
- Matthew 17:2
And what you sow is not the body that will be, but just a seed, perhaps of wheat or something else.
- 1 Corinthians 15:37