Quotes about Metamorphosis

how different we were back then; we don't even recognize ourselves from that period.

Dying to something old, a pattern that is comfortable in its dysfunction, so that one can move to a different system, a new freedom.

The Christian's life is not a modification or improvement of the old, but a transformation of nature.

Maybe he'll be different from who he was and always is.

He could hardly recognize it as something that had grown out of what he had begun.

If kittens turn into cats why don't puppies turn into paps?

Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.

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.

Alice replied, rather shyly, I—I hardly know, Sir, just at present—at least I know who I was when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.

If it had grown up, 'she said to herself, 'it would have made a dreadfully ugly child: but it makes rather a handsome pig, I think.' And she began thinking over other children she knew, who might do very well as pigs, and was just saying to herself, 'if one only know the right way to change them -

I know who I was when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.

The transfiguration was a physical illustration of what the renewed mind looks like in the spiritual.