Quotes about Metamorphosis

As iron cast into fire loses its rust and becomes glowing white, so he who turns completely to God is stripped of his sluggishness and changed into a new man.

But it is your self that must constantly be transforming. You cannot bring the same stale self to the world and expect the world to be new for you.

If we are to be transformed, the body must be transformed, and that is not accomplished by talking at it.

seemed like that moment of pause and arrest when the warm fluidity of youth is chilled into its final shape. He

Food may come from the earth, but from below it is transformed as by fire.

Health and life, I would say, in the full and final sense of those words, are not what we die out of, but what we die into

Everything changes but change itself.

The hotter the furnace the finer the gold.

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 .

An image needs a living object, and a copy can only be formed from a model. Either man models himself on the god of his own invention, or the true and living God moulds the human form in his image. There must be a complete transformation, a 'metamorphosis' (Rom. 12:2; 2 Cor. 3:18), if man is to be restored to the image of God.

We are ever dying to one world and being born into another.

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.