Transformation
102 quotes: 27 by Keith Craft, 75 from other voices.
Other voices on Transformation
- He who reforms himself, has done more toward reforming the public, than a crowd of noisy, impotent patriots.
- Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
- I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.
- I used to pray for answers, but now I’m praying for strength. I used to believe that prayer changes things, but now I know that prayer changes us and we change things.
- If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
- If you want to awaken all of humanity, awaken all of yourself.
- If you will be conformed, then you cannot be transformed; if you will not be transformed, then you must be conformed.
- It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
- It’s never too late to reinvent yourself.
- Just in proportion as a man becomes good, divine, Christlike, he passes out of the region of theorizing, of system-building, and hireling service, into the region of beneficent activities. It is well to think well. It is divine to act well.
- Knowledge without transformation is not wisdom.
- Let him that would move the world, first move himself.
- Love is never lost. If not reciprocated it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
- Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
- Man has to become changed within before his life can be altered.
- Man is the iron, and God is the smith; and we are always either in the forge or on the anvil.
- Many people place virtue more in regretting than in amendment.
- Nearness to God brings likeness to God. The more you see God the more of God will be seen in you.
- One of my biggest lessons in life is, we heal at the speed of our forgiveness.
- One vicious habit each year rooted out, in time might make the worst man good.
- Outward change comes after we change from within
- People often ask me what is the most effective technique for transforming their life. It is a little embarrassing that after years and years of research and experimentation, I have to say that the best answer is - just be a little kinder.
- Real change in the world will only come from a change of heart.
- Remember this—there is no condition so hopeless, no life so far gone, that mind cannot redeem it.
- Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
- Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I built my life.
- The Bible was not given for our information but for our transformation.
- The events of your past are fixed. The meaning of your past is not.
- The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
- The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.
- The journey between what you once were and who you are now becoming is where the dance of life really takes place.
- The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- The most important thing to remember is this: To be ready at any moment to give up what you are for what you might become.
- The only reason why I became successful was because I went towards the truth. As painful and as brutal as it is, it changed me. It allowed me, in my own right, to become the person who I am today.
- The only way you can sustain a permanent change is to create a new way of thinking, acting, and being.
- The universe is transformation; our life is what our thoughts make it.
- The wound is the place where the light enters you.
- There ought to be such an atmosphere in every Christian church, that a man going and sitting there should take the contagion of heaven, and carry home a fire to kindle the altar whence he came.
- To achieve something you have never achieved before you must become someone you have never been.
- To say that 'prayer changes things' is not as close to the truth as saying, 'prayer changes me and then I change things.' God has established things so that prayer, on the basis of redemption, changes the way a person looks at things.