Quotes for All
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 to one great roof of flame above the earth, so that I walk through fire, beneath fire, and all in beauty. Being alone I could not be alone, but felt … Read more
Christ illustrates the purport of life as He descends from His transfiguration to toil, and goes forward to exchange that robe of heavenly brightness for the crown of thorns. Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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 in life… three elements principally: sexuality, intoxication and cruelty all belonging to the oldest festal joys. Friedrich Nietzsche
Time does not really exist as we know it; rather it’s a transfiguration of a concept in which mortality, mutability, is conditioned. Frederick Lenz
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
Profound music leads us beyond language…to the dark roots of our scream and the celestial heights of our silence. Cornel West
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 and yearnings as prisoners of time. Profound music leads us–beyond language–to the dark roots of our scream and the celestial heights of our silence. Cornel West
Most of us have developed a fairly extensive vocabulary for describing pain, as though the journal were a doctor requiring much detail to make the correct diagnosis. The roundness of the spiritual journey cannot be expressed without developing an equally extensive vocabulary for talking to ourselves and others about the nature of wonder, joy, ecstasy, … Read more
The divine process of change manifests itself to our human understanding . . . as punishment, torment, death, and transfiguration. Carl Jung
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 every man and that this pattern has at its disposal the greatest of all his energies for transformation and transfiguration of his natural being. Not only the meaning of his … Read more