The Holy Spirit wants to convert the words of Scripture into transformed personalities.
People's lives can be transformed by the movement.
If our culture is to be transformed, it will happen from the bottom up - from ordinary believers practicing apologetics over the backyard fence or around the barbecue grill.
When you transform your mind, everything you experience is transformed.
Classics are constantly being re-imagined and transformed, and the originals are none the worse for it; they endure.
You are the world. When you transform yourself, the world you live in will also be transformed.
The character of the faith that allows us to be transformed by suffering and darkness is not doubt-free certainty; rather, it is tenacious obedience.
Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration.
We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.
When I wished to sing of love, it turned to sorrow. And when I wished to sing of sorrow, it was transformed for me into love.
As America is transformed from a 90 percent European American nation, as it was in the 1960s, to one where we will soon be a minority, should we not ask some pertinent questions. Is this racial diversity enriching, or will it be damaging to our social fabric?
Ideology. . . is indispensable in any society if men are to be formed, transformed and equipped to respond to the demands of their conditions of existence.
The person who is free of sexuality, whose sexuality has become a transformed phenomenon, is also free of money, is also free of ambition, is also free of the desire to be famous. Immediately all these things disappear from his life. The moment sex energy starts rising upwards, the moment sex energy starts becoming love, prayer, meditation, then all lower manifestations disappear.
I just think that a much more important part of the problem we face, which was evident 10 years ago and is even more evident now, is that the way we share information among ourselves as American citizens has been radically transformed. The line between news and entertainment has almost dissolved, where ratings now have a big impact on what kinds of stories are covered and not stories.
In Tharoor's hands [the story of modern India] is transformed into Mahabharata magic. . . . Endlessly inventive, irreverent, wise, ingenious,. . . it takes on at one level or another the entire panorama of modern India. . . . Energetic and eventful.
What do we find God 'doing about' this business of sin and evil?. . . God did not abolish the fact of evil; He transformed it. He did not stop the Crucifixion; He rose from the dead.
I've been transformed by stories, and I think that storytelling is definitely sacred. I take it very seriously because my life has been changed, whether it was a movie, a play, a piece of writing, poetry, a painting.
Religion is not about accepting twenty impossible propositions before breakfast, but about doing things that change you. It is a moral aesthetic, an ethical alchemy. If you behave in a certain way, you will be transformed. The myths and laws of religion are not true because they they conform to some metaphysical, scientific or historical reality but because they are life enhancing. They tell you how human nature functions, but you will not discover their truth unless you apply these myths and doctrines to your own life and put them into practice.
In the end, alchemy, whether it is metallurgical or financial, fails. A base business can not be transformed into a golden business by tricks of accounting or capital structure. The man claiming to be a financial alchemist may become rich. But gullible investors rather than business achievements will usually be the source of his wealth.
Show me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.