“It’s only after you’ve stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transform.”

“An element of human invention transforms the natural into the cultural, rendering a higher life form an invention, an effect of the operation of biopower.”

“It’s more than a bath; it’s a transformative experience. You’re searching for buoyancy in the soul, and spring in your step.”

Change is not always a good thing. What I need is not change from one thing to another but transformation from who I am into who I was meant to become. Only when God's transforming power touches me can I begin to live the simpler, freer, fresher, more creative, more patient, more passionate, more sacrificial, riskier, rawer, more real, more love-driven life God intended for me all along. That transformation is what awaits all who dare to enter the story of God. As Paul wrote, 'Let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think' (Romans 12:2)

There are certain children who are told they are too sensitive, and there are certain adults who believe sensitivity is a problem that can be fixed in the way that crooked teeth can be fixed and made straight. And when these two come together you get a fairytale, a kind of story with hopelessness in it.I believe there is something in these old stories that does what singing does to words. They have transformational capabilities, in the way melody can transform mood.They can't transform your actual situation, but they can transform your experience of it. We don't create a fantasy world to escape reality, we create it to be able to stay. I believe we have always done this, used images to stand and understand what otherwise would be intolerable.

“They've got six-and-a-half hours to transform a big hunk of sand into a fabulous sculpture. They are only limited by time and physics.”

“We need something as mundane as a loading dock. We need to prepare, for example, for the arrival of the river, which is going to be transformative.”

“We want to become a long-term player leading the transformation of the industry with sufficient scale to challenge BT (British Telecom).”

“They're not really children anymore. They become so serious about what they're doing. … They transform from playful children.”

“These are bold steps that will complete the process we launched 18 months ago to transform Key into a nationwide financial services provider,”