Transfigured Quotes

#1. It stands in the light transfigured, It speaks from the heights above, "Each Soul Is Its Own Redeemer; There Is No Law But Love."

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#2. Literature took the place in my life that had once been occupied by religion: it absorbed me entirely, and transfigured my life.

Simone De Beauvoir

#3. My chair was nearest to the fire
In every company
That talked of love or politics,
Ere Time transfigured me.

William Butler Yeats

#4. HIPPOLYTA

But all the story of the night told over,
And all their minds transfigured so together,
More witnesseth than fancy's images
And grows to something of great constancy,
But, howsoever, strange and admirable.

William Shakespeare

#5. Wisdom is the aristic craving for extraordinary insights, for incandescent revelations that have the power to burst through banausic and doulic ordinariness: wisdom is the lust to be transfigured, transvaluated.

Kenny Smith

#6. For a long time that had seemed to her to be the key to life: Life
real life
was just a solitude waiting to be transfigured.

Kevin Brockmeier

#7. In novels, I said, people are transfigured by love. They're elevated, made different, lifted out of their ordinariness ... It's not so much to ask, I said. I just want love to live up to its publicity.

Anatole Broyard

#8. The refectory is a cenacle in which the taking of food is transfigured almost into a sacrament.

Monica Baldwin

#9. But now mine own eyes have beheld God; but not my natural, but my spiritual eyes, for my natural eyes could not have beheld; for I should have withered and died in his presence; but his glory was upon me; and I beheld his face, for I was transfigured before him.

Moses

#10. Faith is a light of such supreme brilliance that it dazzles the mind and darkens all its visions of other realities, but in the end when we become used to the new light, we gain a new view of all reality transfigured and elevated in the light itself.

Thomas Merton

#11. Love felt and returned, love which our bodies exact and our hearts have transfigured, love which is the most real thing that we shall ever meet, reappeared now as the world's enemy, and she must stifle it.

E. M. Forster

#12. How often a new affection makes a new man! The sordid, cowering soul turns heroic. The frivolous girl becomes the steadfast martyr of patience and ministration, transfigured by deathless love. The career of bounding impulses turns into an anthem of sacred deeds.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#13. I spit into the face of time that has transfigured me

William Butler Yeats

#14. The houses of Heaven are God-built and are as enduring and incorruptible as their builder. We will have bodies after the resurrection; transfigured they will be after the model of Christ's glorious body.

Edward McKendree Bounds

#15. God places us in the world as his fellow workers-agents of transfiguration. We work with God so that injustice is transfigured into justice, so there will be more compassion and caring, that there will be more laughter and joy, that there will be more togetherness in God's world.

Desmond Tutu

#16. It is an almost precise inversion of Lord Acton's observation: the more power we have over our children, the more we are willing to sacrifice for them. Love transfigures power. Absolute love transfigures absolute power. And power transfigured by love is the power that made and saves the world.

Andy Crouch

#17. The black person entered the booth one person and emerged on the other side a new, transfigured person.

Desmond Tutu

#18. Love cannot accept what it is. Everywhere on earth it cries out against kindness, compassion, intelligence, everything that leads to compromise. Love demands the impossible, the absolute, the sky on fire, inexhaustible springtime, life after death, and death itself transfigured into eternal life.

Albert Camus

#19. The convict was transfigured into Christ.

Victor Hugo

#20. You cannot forget how much they took from us and how they transfigured our very bodies into sugar, tobacco, cotton, and gold.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#21. She was the golden thread running through everything, a lens that magnified beauty so that the whole world stood transfigured in relation to her, and her alone.

Donna Tartt

#22. The urge to make art or contemplate philosophy does not go away when you are sick. Those urges just become transfigured by illness.

John Green

#23. Eternal life is personal existence in continuity with the present life, but transfigured.

Georgia Harkness

#24. History may be servitude. History may be freedom. See, now they vanish. The faces and places, with the self which, as it could, loved them, to become renewed, transfigured, in another pattern.

T. S. Eliot

#25. But you, divine poet, you sang on till the end as the swarm of rejected maenads attacked you, shrieking, you overpowered their noise with harmony, and from pure destruction arose your transfigured song.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#26. An existence transfigured by failure.

Emil Cioran

#27. The latter is perhaps the truest theory. She who has once been a woman, and ceased to be so, might at any moment become a woman again, if there were only the magic touch to effect the transformation. We shall see whether Hester Prynne were ever afterwards so touched and so transfigured.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#28. I cannot express how lordly and transfigured I felt at that moment. I was a prince of that harbor, a porpoise king - slim among the buoys and the water traffic.

Pat Conroy

#29. Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing. When you think it fled, it may have but become transfigured into some still subtler form.

Herman Melville

#30. Sing me a new song; the world is transfigured; all the Heavens are rejoicing.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#31. Will the leader reflect the ugliness of egotism or the transfigured glory of Christ the Lord?

J. Oswald Sanders

#32. Nobody could ascend before transfigured.

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