Paul the Apostle Quotes

One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.

The renewal of our natures is a work of great importance. It is not to be done in a day. We have not only a new house to build up, but an old one to pull down.

"This is why alchemy exists," the boy said. "So that everyone will search for his treasure, find it, and then want to be better than he was in his former life. Lead will play its role until the world has no further need for lead; and then lead will have to turn itself into gold. That's what alchemists do. They show that, when we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too."

You, too, can be carved anew by the details of your devotion.

Transformation is not a future event. It is a present activity.

Do you want to change the world? Then change yourself first. Do you want to change yourself? Then remain completely silent inside the silence-sea.

The ultimate reason for meditating is to transform ourselves in order to be better able to transform the world.

Die each moment so that you are renewed each moment.

We work to become, not to acquire.

The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Changing is not just changing the things outside of us. First of all we need the right view that transcends all notions including of being and non-being, creator and creature, mind and spirit. That kind of insight is crucial for transformation and healing.

In the past few years I have begun the process of becoming a new man.

I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.

Social revolutions and group revolutions are good, and we need that, but we also need personal revolution - revolution within ourselves that change who we are as people.

Men may rise on stepping stones of their dead selves to higher things.

I believe we are most beautiful when we are constantly shedding our old selves and moving into new light.

Transformation literally means going beyond your form.

I love the idea of constantly altering yourself.

Eventually, I joined a church. I didn't go there to find a boyfriend; I truly wasn't looking for anyone other than the person I wanted to be.

I'm always reinventing myself.

We all want to be renewed, don't we?

What you are the world is. And without your transformation, there can be no transformation of the world.

You must change your life.

I was one thing at one time, and I'm something new. I'm a new creature now. Don't judge Alice by what he used to be. Praise God for what I am now.