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• God did not die; he was transformed into money

  Giorgio Agamben

  Dies

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• Prayer frees us to be controlled by God. To pray is to change. There is no greater liberating force in the Christian life than prayer. To enter the gaze of the Holy is never to be the same. To bathe in the Light in quiet wonder and glad surrender is to be slowly, permanently transformed. There is a richer inward orientation, a deep hunger for communion. We feel as if we are being taken over by a new control Center, and so we are.

  Richard J. Foster

  Christian, Prayer, Taken

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• The divine awakening produces in the soul of the perfect a flame of love which is a participate of that living flame which is the Holy Spirit Himself...this is the operation of the Holy Spirit in the soul that is transformed in love.

  John of the Cross

  Flames, Perfect, Soul

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• It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Inspirational, Men, Spectacular

  Henrik Ibsen (2014). “Ibsen Plays: 5: Brand; Emperor and Galilean”, p.52, A&C Black

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• I really am a cat transformed into a woman.

  Brigitte Bardot

  Cat, Pet

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• The Tao never does anything, yet through it all things are done. If powerful men and women could venter themselves in it, the whole world would be transformed by itself, in its natural rhythms. People would be content with their simple, everyday lives, in harmony, and free of desire. When there is no desire, all things are at peace.

  Laozi

  Powerful, Simple, Men

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• The bourgeois clap-trap about the family and education, about the hallowed co-relation of parent and child, becomes all the more disgusting, the more, by the action of Modern Industry, all family ties among the proletarians are torn asunder, and their children transformed into simple articles of commerce and instruments of labour.

  Walter Ciszek

  Education, Children, Simple

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• Thus, be it understood, to demonstrate a theorem, it is neither necessary nor even advantageous to know what it means. The geometer might be replaced by the "logic piano" imagined by Stanley Jevons; or, if you choose, a machine might be imagined where the assumptions were put in at one end, while the theorems came out at the other, like the legendary Chicago machine where the pigs go in alive and come out transformed into hams and sausages. No more than these machines need the mathematician know what he does.

  Henri Poincare

  Mean, Math, Piano

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• We need silence to be alone with God, to speak to him, to listen to him, to ponder his words deep in our hearts. We need to be alone with God in silence to be renewed and transformed. Silence gives us a new outlook on life. In it we are filled with the energy of God himself that makes us do all things with joy.

  Mother Teresa

  Spiritual, Heart, Outlook On Life

  Mother Teresa (2001). “Mother Teresa: Essential Writings”

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• Nothing in all nature is so lovely and so vigorous, so perfectly at home in its environment, as a fish in the sea. Its surroundings give to it a beauty, quality, and power which are not its own. We take it out, and at once a poor, limp dull thing, fit for nothing, is gasping away its life. So the soul, sunk in God, living the life of prayer, is supported, filled, transformed in beauty, by a vitality and a power which are not its own.

  Evelyn Underhill

  God, Prayer, Live Life

  Evelyn Underhill (1990). “Lent With Evelyn Underhill”, p.74, Church Publishing, Inc.

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• We need to imagine a world in which every woman is the presiding genius of her own body. In such a world women will truly create new life, bringing forth not only children if and as we choose but the visions, and the thinking, necessary to sustain, console and alter human existence-a new relationship to the universe. Sexuality, politics, intelligence, power, motherhood, work, community, intimacy will develop new meanings; thinking itself will be transformed. This is where we have to begin.

  Adrienne Rich

  Children, New Relationship, Motherhood

  Adrienne Rich (1976). “Of woman born motherhood as experience and institution”

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• You have had many sadnesses, large ones, which passed. ... But please, ask yourself whether these large sadnesses haven't rather gone right through you [that is, passed through you]. Perhaps many things inside you have been transformed; perhaps somewhere, someplace deep inside your being, you have undergone important changes while you were sad.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Life, Sadness, Important

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• Forget everything you've ever learned about the stars and they'll once more be transformed into angels, or into children, or into whatever you want to believe at that moment. It won't make you more stupid - after all, it's only a game - but it could enrich your life.

  Paulo Coelho

  Stars, Children, Stupid

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• I told myself 'Everything is a being! The shout that passes into the air is an entity like an animal, since it is born, produces a movement, and is again transformed, in order to die. So the fearful mind that believes in incorporeal beings is not wrong. What are they?

  Guy de Maupassant

  Believe, Animal, Air

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• True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced.

  Tom Robbins

  Order, Results, Stability

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.222, Bantam

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• Our emotions are not transformed by trying harder, but by seeing more clearly.

  Mike Bickle

  Trying, Emotion, Harder

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• Death is hell and night and cold, if it is not transformed by our faith. But that is just what is so marvelous, that we can transform death.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Night, Cold, Hell

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• Show me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.

  Gloria Steinem

  Race, Half, Show Me

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• The fiend with all his comrades Fell then from heaven above, Through as long as three nights and days, The angels form heaven into hell; And them all the Lord transformed to devils, Because they his deed and word Would not revere.

  Caedmon

  Angel, Night, Deeds And Words

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• The Ancient Games are relatively obscure to most Olympians, but to understand just what the Games are about, it is really necessary to investigate the roots and the meaning that has transformed culture and society for so many years.

  Bill Toomey

  Years, Games, Roots

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• When emotional intelligence merges with spiritual intelligence, human nature is transformed.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Emotional, Human Nature

  FaceBook post by Deepak Chopra from Dec 21, 2010

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• You cannot entirely control your subconscious mind, but you can voluntarily hand over to it any plan, desire, or purpose which you wish transformed into concrete form.

  Napoleon Hill

  Hands, Mind, Wish

  Napoleon Hill (2011). “Think and Grow Rich: The Original Classic”, p.293, John Wiley & Sons

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• You cannot make anything worthwhile in this world unless you have first developed and transformed yourself.

  Robert Greene

  World, Firsts, Worthwhile

  Robert Greene (2012). “Mastery”, p.74, Profile Books

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• Love is a war of lightning,
  and two bodies ruined by a single sweetness.
  Kiss by kiss I cover your tiny infinity,
  your margins, your rivers, your diminutive villages,
  and a genital fire, transformed by delight,
  slips through the narrow channels of blood
  to precipitate a nocturnal carnation,
  to be, and be nothing but light in the dark.

  Pablo Neruda

  War, Dark, Kissing

  Pablo Neruda, “‘carnal Apple, Woman Filled, Burning Moon,’”

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• Jesus didn't die so we could fill auditoriums, he died so that lives could be transformed.

  George Barna

  Jesus, Auditoriums, Died

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