Top 84 Quotes About Spiritual Transformation
#1. You can't have a physical transformation until you have a spiritual transformation.
Cory Booker
#2. 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
#3. Reading the Bible for spiritual transformation is not a one-sided endeavor: it is a dialogue of human spirit and Holy Spirit.
Richard J. Foster
#4. 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
#5. Spiritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.
John Ortberg
#6. It's important to recognize that forgiveness is more than mere words; it's a heart attitude that induces a spiritual transformation.
Victoria Osteen
#7. I wanted to write something that was very entertaining to read. The hardest part of this novel [The Yoga of Max's Discontent] was how to make a deeply spiritual transformation journey page-turning and adventurous. That was the hardest part to crack for me.
Karan Bajaj
#8. 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 Lenz
#9. Nervous breakdowns can be highly underrated methods of spiritual transformation.
Marianne Williamson
#10. 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
#11. Our whole spiritual transformation brings us to the point where we realize that in our own being, we are enough.
Ram Dass
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. On the journey of spiritual transformation, you want to lose your baggage. In fact, you want to make sure all of it is lost, so that when you reach the end of this road, you have nothing left to cover your Self up with.
Derek Rydall
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. One thing we can know for sure is that when we are confessing our sin to God but not to the people around us in ordinary, nitty-gritty life, there is not much real spiritual transformation going on
Ruth Haley Barton
#19. We are the authors of the stories our soul unfolds.
Jodi Livon
#20. What we are is what we receive. It is not about waiting for something outside ourselves to change - we must actively be the change if we wish to see the result.
Alaric Hutchinson
#21. Let us be among those who believe that the inner transformation of our lives is a goal worthy of our best effort. -P. 11
Richard J. Foster
#22. A genuine transformation that results from sustained concerted effort is long lasting because it has a firm foundation.
Dalai Lama
#23. The left-hand path adept seeks to liberate him/herself from passive subjection to the illusory nature of Maya, thus freeing the consciousness from the binds of self-created delusion.
Zeena Schreck
#24. To talk of humans as 'transcendent' is not to ascribe to them spiritual properties. It is, rather, to recognize that as subjects we have the ability to transform our selves, our natures, our world - an ability denied to any other physical being.
Kenan Malik
#25. We neither need a political revolution nor a religious revolution. What we need is an inner transformation in human beings.
Jaggi Vasudev
#26. Spiritual formation cannot, in the nature of the case, be a 'private' thing, because it is a matter of whole-life transformation. You need to seek out others in your community who are pursuing the renovation of the heart.
Dallas Willard
#27. Until we look from the bottom up we have nothing.
Sue Monk Kidd
#28. After you've seen behind the facade of a stage set you can't take the play seriously any more. You can't go backwards and regain your ignorance; you have to move forward.
Zeena Schreck
#29. I hadn't realized what a transformation had taken place while I had been in Uganda, the spiritual richness I had experienced in material poverty and the spiritual poverty I felt now in a land of material wealth.
Katie J. Davis
#30. Our feelings are the wings of our intuition.
Jodi Livon
#31. We can all do so much more than we think we can. Wherever you think you are right now, you can go further, do better, be more than ever! What's wonderful is the future you're looking forward to and also your present potential right now! You're winning regardless. Both now and later.Celebrate you.
Sereda Aleta Dailey
#32. The transformation from separation to unity, from conflict to peace, is the goal of all spiritual traditions.
Deepak Chopra
#34. When I see and feel the life beat of Spirit in every object, I evolve to a higher level of transformation called consciousness
Deepak Chopra
#35. Your relationship with God will determine your spiritual weight, your authority before Him
Sunday Adelaja
#36. Robert Gass and 'On Wings of Song' bring about magical transformation and inspire people with extraordinary, uplifting, and spiritual music.
Deepak Chopra
#37. Ethics is at the center of both spiritual practice and social transformation. Without a strong ethical foundation, we inevitably fall into contradictions-between means and ends, between our actions and our ideals. (p. 9)
Donald Rothberg
#38. Radical transformation of society requires personal and spiritual change first or at least simultaneously
Sulak Sivaraksa
#39. Spiritual maturity is not measured by the years that you have spent in church, rather by your attitude before people different from you.
Paul Gitwaza
#40. Nostalgia is an illness
for those who haven't realized
that today
is tomorrow's nostalgia.
Zeena Schreck
#41. 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
#42. The truth is revealed to those who desire to know, but also to those who will take the time to take action to counter or further the truths they have come to know..
Sereda Aleta Dailey
#43. Illusions can and do create PHYSICAL Dis-Ease within our bodies. So it's most important to master our thoughts, to become cognizant of what we are spending our precious mental energy on each moment of every day.
Alaric Hutchinson
#44. Divine power transforms us, to be the better person, we ought to be.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#45. If we do not work for individual transformation, talking about world peace is just entertainment.
Jaggi Vasudev
#46. The purpose of each incarnation is the transformation spiritual development of the individual. To the extent our day-to-day activities become harmonious with this purpose, that much peace and happiness we can experience
Thomas Vazhakunnathu
#47. Religion is meant to teach us true spiritual human character. It is meant for self-transformation. It is meant to transform anxiety into peace, arrogance into humility, envy into compassion, to awaken the pure soul in man and his love for the Source, which is God.
Radhanath Swami
#48. Your life becomes what you believe.
Jewel
#49. I have within me all that I need; I am love and life in action.
Jodi Livon
#50. Living a spiritual life requires a change of heart, a conversion. Such a conversion may be marked by a sudden inner change, or it can take place through a long, quiet process of transformation. But it always involves an inner experience of oneness.
Henri Nouwen
#51. Controlling unwanted thoughts is not the problem. Believing, thrusting, and taking direction from them is.
Charles F. Glassman
#52. 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
#53. The primary goal of spiritual life is human transformation.
John Ortberg
#54. One of the essential requirements for
true spiritual growth and deep personal
transformation is coming to peace with
pain.
Michael Singer
#55. 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
#56. Transformation brings with it the recognition that the meaning we assign to events in the world determines how we react in relation to them.
Teresa DeCicco
#57. As we begin to transform, illness and pain can also be seen as a "messenger" for spiritual growth. What does this illness mean? What can I learn from this? Why is the occurring in my life
Teresa DeCicco
#58. Love is the fingerprint of the soul.
Jodi Livon
#60. Any person or thing of significance to you unconsciously plays a role in mirroring your own internal universe, just as you do theirs.
Nebo D. Lukovich
#61. The most important journey you will take in your life will usually be the one of self transformation. Often, this is the scariest because it requires the greatest changes, in your life.
Shannon L. Alder
#63. 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
#65. Yes. Knock and it shall be opened to you. The gift of wisdom can be found, if one wishes to search for it, and is willing to be altered by it. It is not a gift given without cost or transformation, nor one to be used lightly.
Faith Hunter
#67. Revolutions are spiritual acts. They appear first in people, then in politics and the economy. New people form new structures. The transformation we want is first of all spiritual; that will necessarily change the way things are.
Joseph Goebbels
#68. For if there was to be any transformation in the spiritual orientation of the pilgrim's soul, that change would take place not on arrival as if by magic, but in the long, hard work of The Way.
Stephen R. Lawhead
#69. Meditation is an excellent habit and tool for transformation, however your 'practice' should eventually evolve into your natural primary state of being.
Gary Hopkins
#70. The world is more than black and white. Seeing everything in color helps me raise my spirit and find my happy. Life is meant to be lived in color!
Jodi Livon
#71. Self-transformation is not just about changing yourself. It means shifting yourself to a completely new dimension of experience and perception.
Jaggi Vasudev
#72. Religion" (a person's own efforts to find their way to God through being "good" or following rituals) is a poor substitute for true spiritual power: the life of God breathed into a human being, bringing genuine transformation.
Bob Hamp
#73. 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
#74. Once you say 'I want to find Truth', all your life will be deeply affected by it. All your mental and physical habits, feelings and emotions, desires and fears, plans and decisions will undergo a most radical transformation.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
#75. We can see the Divine in each speck of dust, but that doesn't stop us from wiping it away with a wet sponge. The Divine doesn't disappear; it's transformed into the clean surface.
Paulo Coelho
#76. Spiritual renewal and the transformation of a nation, country, or a city cannot take place unless there is first renewal and transformation in the individual.
Sunday Adelaja
#77. The important correction needed by worldly religions is the transformation from external religious teaching to truthful internal spiritual reality.
Hua Ching Ni
#78. Self-acceptance is self-love in action.
Jodi Livon
#79. Transformation means nothing of the old should remain; something absolutely new should happen.
Jaggi Vasudev
#80. I shine my light on every dark thought that arises and they turn into whispers with wings and fly away.
Jodi Livon
#81. It was the ultimate celestial orgasm and I felt like a cup overflowing with plenty. The pulse of God moving through me brought such intense pleasure that I felt I might burst like the ripest berry in the sun.
Linda Cull
#82. Nature does not know extinction; all it knows is transformation. Everything science has taught me, and continues to teach me, strengthens my belief in the continuity of our spiritual existence after death.
Werner Von Braun
#83. 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
#84. Precepts in Buddhism and commandments in Judiasm and Christianity are important jewels that we need to study and practice. They provide guidelines that can help us transform our suffering.
Thich Nhat Hanh
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