Transforms Quotes

221 quotes by 186 authors

It's not sincereity, it is truth which frees us, because it transforms us. It tears us away from our inmost slavery. — Henri de Lubac
Prayer does not change God, it changes us. It deepens insight, increases intuitive perception, expands consciousness. It transforms personality. — Wilferd Peterson
The more Christ fulfills the cravings of our souls, the more he changes our taste capacities from the inside out. The more we walk with… — David Platt
God transforms, so to speak, this air into words, into various sounds. He makes you understand these various sounds through the modifications by which you… — Nicolas Malebranche
Sabbath is not simply the pause that refreshes. It is the pause that transforms. — Walter Brueggemann
Literature takes reality and human experience as its starting point, transforms it by means of the imagination, and sends readers back to life with renewed… — Leland Ryken
Any new possibility that existence acquires, even the least likely, transforms everything about existence. — Milan Kundera
A human group transforms itself into a crowd when it suddenly responds to a suggestion rather than to reasoning, to an image rather than to… — Jean Francois Revel
What the human eye sees is an illusion of what is real. The black and white image transforms illusions into another reality. — Ruth Bernhard
A novel is based on evidence, + or -x, the unknown quantity being the temperament of the novelist, and the unknown quantity always modifies the… — E. M. Forster
Forgetfulness transforms every occurrence into a non-occurrence. — Plutarch
It is far more important that one's life should be perceived than that it should be transformed; for no sooner has it been perceived, than… — Maurice Maeterlinck
Art must take reality by surprise. It takes those moments which are for us merely a moment, plus a moment, plus another moment, and arbitrarily… — Francoise Sagan
Cate Blanchett is somebody who I could watch do anything. I love what an extraordinary chameleon she can be. There's something about the way she… — Maggie Siff
My personal assessment is that Dr. King is the greatest American we have ever produced. I can argue for Lincoln, I can argue for FDR,… — Tavis Smiley
We can bring to earth a new world from the ashes of the old because our union transforms us the powerless into the powerful. And… — Andy Stern
Great art is more than a transient refreshment. It is something which adds to the permanent richness of the soul's self-attainment. It justifies itself both… — Alfred North Whitehead
Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech. If you approach me at a bus stop and murmur Thou still unravished bride… — Terry Eagleton
Literature... is condemned (or privileged) to be forever the most rigorous and, consequently, the most reliable of terms in which man names and transforms himself. — Paul de Man
[Perl] gives you the STDERR filehandle so that your program can make snide comments off to the side while it transforms (or attempts to transform)… — Larry Wall

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