Quotes of the Day for March 11, 2026 – Thoughts on lives transformed
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“Perhaps there is nothing so powerful as a testimony of a life transformed. I don’t believe it’s necessary to suffer so deeply that one’s life is crushed seemingly beyond repair, broken into a hundred pieces, before we fall to our knees and hear God’s longing for our soul. But this we do know; it certainly is an explosive doorway and being witness to God’s mercy. Pain transformed is holy space.” (Jackie Morfesis)
“God works, but not in a deterministic way that means we can just sit back and watch this or any other disaster unfold like film. We have agency, thank goodness! Created in God’s image, we have the freedom to act, to speak, to affect our world, a freedom that von Balthasar calls the ‘radiant gift’ of a God who does not hoard power or coerce his followers but shares the most precious thing he possesses. Just like God, made in His image, redeemed by His Son, we are called to use this gift not for domination but for generosity. For creativity. For healing. That can take countless different forms and will come as a challenge to each person in a profoundly different way. But our call is always both to a radical trust and to the work of incarnation. Trust that God will heal and transform these aching, broken realities. Incarnation as we act with Jesus, irradiated by His love in such a way that we begin to enflesh, to make touchable its real presence within us.” (Sarah Clarkson)
“Transformation is a slow process and the starting point is often our suffering. It requires us to be patient, humble, and to trust God, knowing He loves us and is with us…Suffering cannot be explained, but it can be accepted and transformed…Christ’s scars stand now, not for the horror that began them, but the world-redeeming love that transformed them. Those wounds are glorious not because they’re wounds but because they show us what God does with wounds; reclaims them as the space of His gracious, tender arrival.” (Sacramental Living Ministries, Fr. Basil, Sarah Clarkson)
“We all have diseases of soul, of personality, of behavior, and of relationships that cripple us, keeping us from acting, thinking, and speaking with the joyful freedom of the children of God. We are all bent over and crippled in relation to the Lord, our neighbors, and even ourselves. We have all fallen short of fulfilling God’s gracious purposes for us, as has every generation since Adam and Eve stripped themselves naked of the divine glory. Indeed, “the whole creation groans and labors with birth pangs together until now” (Rom. 8:22)…Nothing constrains us from being healed of our infirmities of soul other than our own stubborn refusal to receive the healing, transformation, and fulfillment of the human person that Christ was born to bring to the world.” (Fr. Philip LeMasters)
“The unveiled or unhidden face is a face without shame – or a face that no longer hides from its shame. This is perhaps the most fundamental aspect of our transformation in Christ. The self in whom shame has been healed is the self that is able to live as person. We are restored to our essential and authentic humanity – our personhood. We behold Christ face to face, as a person would who looks into a mirror. And, as St. John says, “We shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is” (1Jo 3:2 NKJ).” (Father Stephan Freeman)
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