Transfigured Quotes

26 quotes by 24 authors

In his (Christ's) surrender on the cross all the pain and agony of mankind was concentrated at a single point, and passed through from death… — Bede Griffiths
Fiction is one of the few experiences where loneliness can be both confronted and relieved. Drugs, movies where stuff blows up, loud parties - all… — David Foster Wallace
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,… — Albert Camus
God was on the move; God is on the move; and God will always be on the move. Those who walk with God and listen… — Scot McKnight
Our reverence for the nobility of manhood will not be lessened by the knowledge that man is in substance and in structure, one with the… — Thomas Huxley
On the one hand, it is in and through creative minds that the community fulfils itself at its best and reaches its highest forms; and… — Salvador de Madariaga
In novels, I said, people are transfigured by love. Theyâ€™re elevated, made different, lifted out of their ordinarinessâ€¦Itâ€™s not so much to ask, I said.… — Anatole Broyard
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… — Kenny Smith
Fiction, poetry, music...these are the places (for me) where loneliness is countenanced, stared down, transfigured, treated. — David Foster Wallace
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
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,… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
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… — Thomas Merton
The house became full of love. Aureliano expressed it in poetry that had no beginning and no end. He would write it on the harsh… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Without thinking, I knelt in the grass, like someone meaning to pray. When I tried to stand again, I couldn't move, my legs were utterly… — Louise GluÌˆck
In a split second of eternity, everything is changed, transfigured. A few bars of music, rising from an unfamiliar place, a touch of perfection in… — Muriel Barbery
On its outer surface time is vulnerable to transience. Regardless of its sadness or beauty, each day empties and vanishes. In its deeper heart, time… — John O'Donohue
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… — Herman Melville
Now, helpless in the hollow of An unarmorial age, a trough Of smoke in slow suspended skeins Above their scrap of history, Only an attitude… — Philip Larkin
The younger and healthier a woman is and the more her new and glossy body seems destined for eternal freshness, the less useful is artifice;… — Simone de Beauvoir
An existence transfigured by failure. — Emile M. Cioran

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24 authors contributed a total of 26 Transfigured Quotes as follows: