Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

If you want God to do something new in you, you cannot keep doing the same old thing. You have to do something different. And if you do, God will create new capacities within you. There will be new gifts and new revelations. But you've got to pray the price. You'll get out of this what you put into it.

If you decide you want to change your life around, it doesn't matter where you came from, what you did, if you were incarcerated or you are from the projects, if you are an uppity kid who came from a really wealthy family - and all of them do drugs and are into that life - it doesn't matter; come as you are, and God does his work.

Often we talk about God's ability to change lives without fully understanding how to access that power.

Whatever God is urging you to clear away cannot begin to be compared to what He ultimately wants to bring you.

GOD made my life complete when I placed all the pieces before him. When I got my act together, he gave me a fresh start. Now I'm alert to GOD's ways; I don't take God for granted. Every day I review the ways he works; I try not to miss a trick. I feel put back together, and I'm watching my step. GOD rewrote the text of my life when I opened the book of my heart to his eyes.

The old field of space, time, matter, and the senses is to be weeded, dug, and sown for a new crop. We may be tired of that old field: God is not.

Spiritual growth involves giving up the stories of your past so the universe can write a new one.

Change was as much about loss as gain, about giving something up even as you reached for something new or different. The world was opening up, not closing in.

Here's good news: God is even more committed to your change, your growth, and your transformation than you are.

You have to give up some of the old so that you can make room for the new.

Prayer does change things, all kinds of things. But the most important thing it changes is us.

Girls you've gotta know when it's time to turn the page.

It is only by frequent deaths of ourselves and our self-centered desires that we can come to live more fully.

There may be circumstances in this life that God uses to keep bringing us back to Him, looking for His grace.

Lord, reform Thy world, beginning with me.

Prayer is not about changing God, but being willing to let God change us.

Being a Christian is not just about following commandments: it is about letting Christ take possession of our lives and transform them.

You will be dead so long as you refuse to die.

How good it is for us when the Lord unsettles our lukewarm and superficial lives.

Before you came into my life, I believed that God had abandoned me. Now I know that He has blessed me beyond measure. -sir Bannor-

I don't want to make it sound too much like I'm telling people how to read the book A Thousand Pardons, but what Ben Armstead is doing, he's doing more or less on purpose as a very elaborate way of making a sacrifice in his personal life. He needs to start over. This is how he chooses to do it - by blowing up where he is.

Awakening is not a thing. It is not a goal, not a concept. It is not something to be attained. It is a metamorphosis. If the caterpillar thinks about the butterfly it is to become, saying ‘And then I shall have wings and antennae,’ there will never be a butterfly. The caterpillar must accept its own disappearance in its transformation. When the marvelous butterfly takes wing, nothing of the caterpillar remains.

Faith does not proceed from ourselves, but is the fruit of spiritual regeneration.

But in my heart I knew the old Bryce was toast. There was no going back. Not to Garrett or Shelly or Miranda or any of the other people who wouldn't understand. Juli was different, but after all these years that didn't bother me anymore. I liked it. I liked her.

I think the question is, how do we live with change? Change in our friends, change in our lovers? Change in me and change in my body, from the stroke. Things have changed this plane of consciousness. We've tried to keep things the same. It causes suffering. This suffering is another step in your spiritual life, in your spiritual journey.