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When people are facing a severe illness or a major surgery, that may be one of the most significant opportunities for spiritual transformation that they will encounter. -- Allan Hamilton
I try to write the books I would love to come upon that are honest, concerned with real lives, human hearts, spiritual transformation, families, secrets, wonder, craziness - and that can make me laugh. -- Anne Lamott
I hate how hard spiritual transformation is and how long it takes. I hate thinking about how many people have gone to church for decades and remain joyless or judgmental or bitter or superior. -- John Ortberg
Your life becomes what you believe. -- Jewel
Each one prays to God according to his own light. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Nervous breakdowns can be highly underrated methods of spiritual transformation. -- Marianne Williamson
You cant have a physical transformation until you have a spiritual transformation. -- Cory Booker
Spiritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely. -- John Ortberg
Our whole spiritual transformation brings us to the point where we realize that in our own being, we are enough. -- Ram Dass
Spiritual transformation into Christ-likeness in not going to happen unless we act... What transforms us is the will to obey Jesus Christ. -- Dallas Willard
If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe. -- Soren Kierkegaard
All things share the same breath - the beast, the tree, the man... the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports. -- Chief Seattle
...inner spiritual transformation is just as dependent upon the effect of our economic life upon the world as transformations in the world are dependent upon spiritual re-orientation. -- Stephen Batchelor
The ego is not harmonious with happiness and spiritual development. In the process of spiritual transformation we refine it. In the fire of love we melt the ego down. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
There is no way to overstate the magnitude of the collective spiritual transformation that will occur when we shift from food of violent oppression to food of gentleness and compassion. -- Will Tuttle
When I enter into nirvikalpa samadhi, most can see this light, or feel it. This light creates very powerful, steady spiritual transformation. The reason you are here is to sit in this light. -- Frederick Lenz
We take what we think are the tools of spiritual transformation into our own hands and try to sculpt ourselves into robust Christlike specimens. But spiritual transformation is primarily the work of the Holy Spirit. He is the Master Sculptor -- Jerry Bridges
Vegetarianism preserves live, health, peace, the ecology, creates a more equitable distribution of resources, helps to feed the hungry, encourages nonviolence for the animal and human members of the planet, and is a powerful aid for the spiritual transformation of the body, emotions, mind, and spirit. -- Gabriel Cousens
Often on a journey of spiritual transformation, that is ultimately what heals the pain: the veil is removed from in front of our own eyes and we see where we had been thinking thoughts that would inevitably lead to pain. Until we change those thoughts, the pain will remain. -- Marianne Williamson
Sporadic and shallow dipping in the doctrine of Christ and partial participation in His restored Church cannot produce the spiritual transformation that enables us to walk in a newness of life. Rather, fidelity to covenants, constancy of commitment, and offering our whole soul unto God are required if we are to receive the blessings of eternity. -- David A. Bednar
By opening our lives to God in Christ, we become new creatures. This experience, which Jesus spoke of as the new birth, is essential if we are to be transformed nonconformists . . . Only through an inner spiritual transformation do we gain the strength to fight vigorously the evils of the world in a humble and loving spirit. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Now a confirmed atheist, I've become convinced of the enormous contribution that Christian evangelism makes in Africa: sharply distinct from the work of secular NGOs, government projects and international aid efforts. These alone will not do. Education and training alone will not do. In Africa Christianity changes people's hearts. It brings a spiritual transformation. The rebirth is real. The change is good. -- Matthew Parris
We are living in a very exciting and powerful time. On the deepest level of consciousness, a radical spiritual transformation is taking place. I believe that on a worldwide level, we are being challenged to let go of our present way of life and create an entirely new one. We are, in fact, in the process of destroying our old world and building a new one in its place. -- Shakti Gawain
The primary goal of spiritual life is human transformation. -- John Ortberg
You can't have a physical transformation until you have a spiritual transformation. -- Cory Booker
It's important to recognize that forgiveness is more than mere words; it's a heart attitude that induces a spiritual transformation. -- Victoria Osteen
We take what we think are the tools of spiritual transformation into our own hands and try to sculpt ourselves into robust Christlike specimens. But spiritual transformation is primarily the work of the Holy Spirit. He is the Master Sculptor. -- Jerry Bridges
Without transformation, you can assume you're at a high moral, spiritual level just because you call yourself Lutheran or Methodist or Catholic. I think my great disappointment as a priest has been to see how little actual spiritual curiosity there is in so many people. -- Richard Rohr
Radical transformation of society requires personal and spiritual change first or at least simultaneously -- Sulak Sivaraksa
The transformation from separation to unity, from conflict to peace, is the goal of all spiritual traditions. -- Deepak Chopra
The important correction needed by worldly religions is the transformation from external religious teaching to truthful internal spiritual reality. -- Hua-Ching Ni
Robert Gass and 'On Wings of Song' bring about magical transformation and inspire people with extraordinary, uplifting, and spiritual music. -- Deepak Chopra
Growth follows knowledge; action follows inspiration; opportunity follows perception; always the spiritual first, then the transformation into the infinite and illimitable possibilities of achievement. -- Charles F. Haanel
He suddenly understood the message of so many spiritual teachers that the only revolution that can work is the inner transformation of every human being. -- Stanislav Grof
Understand this if nothing else: spiritual freedom and oneness with the Tao are not randomly bestowed gifts, but the rewards of conscious self-transformation and self-evolution. -- Laozi
It almost seems like God is transforming into just a strictly spiritual advisor, a personal-transformation type of figure more than an explainer of the world, you know? -- Larry Wilmore
The aim of spiritual formation is not behavior modification but the transformation of all those aspects of you and me where behavior comes from...Circumcision of the heart. -- Dallas Willard
The ego is not harmonious with happiness and spiritual development. In the process of spiritual transformation we refine it. In the fire of love we melt the ego down. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
In reality, when you feel depressed, lonely, betrayed, or any unwanted feelings, this is an important moment on the spiritual path. This is when real transformation can take place. -- Pema Chodron
When I enter into nirvikalpa samadhi, most can see this light, or feel it. This light creates very powerful, steady spiritual transformation. The reason you are here is to sit in this light. -- Frederick Lenz

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