Quotes about Transition

My disorder has been attended with several symptoms of a consumption; and I have been at times apprehensive that my great change was at hand: yet blessed be God, I have never been affrighted; but, on the contrary, at times much delighted with a view of its approach.

It's not the Dark Destroyer no more, because everything synonymous with the Dark Destroyer I don't want to know.

When you pull up roots in order to fulfill a divine destiny, there is not a sense of pain or loss. Rather, there is a great expectation for things to come.

Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.

Thou art standing all this while at the door of eternity, and death is waiting to open the door, and put thee in(247).

To move from your way of thinking or acting to God's way of thinking or acting will require fundamental adjustments.

For with God, there's always another role to undertake, a fresh assignment, and another task that will call upon everything we've experienced and learned thus far. God is never finished with us. He may, however, be finished with our current role. If so, we must be prepared to take on the next assignment that inevitably comes.

The big truth for men is that often we have to leave home in the first half of life before we can return home at a later stage and find our soul there.

Resurrection" is another word for change, but particularly positive change—which we tend to see only in the long run. In the short run, it often just looks like death.

You normally have to let go of the old and go through a stage of unknowing or confusion, before you can move to another level of awareness or new capacity.

Unless you build your first house well, you will never leave it. To build your house well is, ironically, to be nudged beyond its doors.

New beginnings invariably come from old false things that are allowed to die.