Transfiguration Quotes
30 quotes by 26 authors
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Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play.
— Max Beckmann
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Today I walked on the lion-coloured hills with only cypresses for company, until the sunset caught me, turned the brush to copper set the clouds…
— Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth
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Existence is god called through love, provoked through love. The moment you become capable of prayer, existence becomes god. The moment you become capable of…
— Rajneesh
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The central idea of the Eastern Fathers was that of theosis, the divinization of all creatures, the transfiguration of the world, the idea of the…
— Nikolai Berdyaev
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You are my inspiration and my folly. You are my light across the sea, my million nameless joys, and my day's wage. You are my…
— George Bernard Shaw
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Our Lord's descent from the holy heights of the Mount of Transfiguration was more than a physical return from greater to lesser altitudes; it was…
— James E. Talmage
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The divine process of change manifests itself to our human understanding . . . as punishment, torment, death, and transfiguration.
— Carl Jung
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We know that Elijah did return—at least twice—after Malachi's promise. At Christ's transfiguration, Elijah appeared on the mount to Peter, James, and John. At the…
— Russell M. Nelson
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...I got a call from a record company offering me a contract, I did not want to take it because the Lord had pointed me…
— Alice Coltrane
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I cannot define for you what God is. I can only say that my work has proved empirically that the pattern of God exists in…
— Carl Jung
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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…
— Desmond Tutu
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When we become incorruptible and immortal and attain to the blessed state of conformity with Christ, we will be ever with the Lord, gaining fulfillment…
— Gregory Palamas
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The Light of the Lord's Transfiguration does not come into being or cease to be, nor is it circumscribed or perceptible to the senses, even…
— Gregory Palamas
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Listen to Jesus and follow him. That's the message of the Transfiguration.
— Pope Francis
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The transfiguration of matter occurs through wonder.
— James Hillman
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Christ did not enchant men; He demanded that they believe in Him: except on one occasion, the Transfiguration. For a brief while, Peter, James, and…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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The difference between shallow happiness and a deep, sustaining joy is sorrow. Happiness lives where sorrow is not. When sorrow arrives, happiness dies. It can't…
— Walter Wangerin
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The states in which we infuse a transfiguration and a fullness into things and poetize about them until they reflect back our fullness and joy…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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With 'Black Swan,' the ballerina saga flips its tiara and goes on a hallucinatory bender, a scary acid trip where transfiguration and disfiguration meet.
— James Wolcott
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Music at its best...is the grand archeology into and transfiguration of our guttural cry, the great human effort to grasp in time our deepest passions…
— Cornel West
Who Wrote These Transfiguration Quotes
26 authors contributed a total of 30 Transfiguration Quotes, led by these top contributors: