Transfiguration Quotes

30 quotes by 25 authors

Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play. — Max Beckmann
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
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
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
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
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
The divine process of change manifests itself to our human understanding . . . as punishment, torment, death, and transfiguration. — Carl Jung
We know that Elijah did returnâ€”at least twiceâ€”after Malachi's promise. At Christ's transfiguration, Elijah appeared on the mount to Peter, James, and John. At the… — Russell M. Nelson
...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
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
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
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
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
Listen to Jesus and follow him. That's the message of the Transfiguration. — Pope Francis
The transfiguration of matter occurs through wonder. — James Hillman
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
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
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
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
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

25 authors contributed a total of 30 Transfiguration Quotes as follows: