And myth has displayed this life, in order thereby to transfigure it to us?
It is therefore necessary that some exceptionally powerful cause should have intervened to transfigure reality in such a way as to make it appear under an aspect that is not really its own.
If I but deserve you, I keep all you grant to him and more: You shall make me dare what others dare not, You shall keep my nature pure as snow, And a light from you that others share not Shall transfigure me where'er I go.
A transforming spirit will be at work there, and will transfigure all its experience by a divine light, and consecrate all its various gifts and faculties by a divine power.
It is not for nothing that Browning put this loftiest utterance of all that was most strenuous in his own faith into the mouth of a member of the race which has beyond others known how to suffer and how to transfigure its suffering.
Since life repudiated his single-hearted endeavors he would transfigure life in gracious pictures.
By the light of that inward vision do they choose and transfigure every theme.
The simple graciousness and humility of the act seem to transfigure the old warrior’s face, which is further lit by the rich light of the landscape in the setting sun.
This applies to love as well: the thought of the infinite, eternal love must transfigure and ennoble all that which is natural and human.
Who knows that it does not transfigure us, and gradually dissolve all earthly ties?
She appeared to each one of them, and her mysterious presence seemed to transfigure all.
The features seem hardly material, such a fineness and spiritual light transfigure them.
The poet who can transfigure the hot present is fortunate, but most, and the greatest, have visited the cool quiet purlieus of the past.
Henceforth transfigure your theory of moral truth; the old theory is laid aside as infinitely insufficient; a new and spiritual revelation is established.
Divine grace and human faith cantransfigure the race.
This Life can vitalize all that is withered and dead; it can make decrepit wills muscular and mighty, and it can transfigure the leper with the glow and purity of perfect health.
She believes in her power to renew and transfigure them, to achieve in them a moral miracle.
And thus, in the third place, the ministry of Sacraments is a perpetual prophecy of the glory that shall be revealed in us; the glory that shall pervade and transfigure our whole being.
The other two are personal letters, wherein the fragrance of a gracious friendship still lingers, and in which we see how the spirit of Christ was beginning, even then, totransfigure with its benignant gentleness the courtesies of life.
Unless there first comes some one who shall transfigure this religion into its purest form, it will never be perfected, and its kingdom will never come.
Their ideas of beauty, their taste in art, influence very powerfully their own lives and those of others, and may transfigure many things which are otherwise liable to fall into the commonplace and the vulgar.
Oh, tell me would you like Him to come, transfigure you into the beauty of His likeness and put the benediction of His peace upon this old sin-smitten, tear-stained earth?
In Second Corinthians He is coming to transfigure the living who believe in Him and thus clothe them with their "house from heaven," give them the body that shall be the handiwork of God and not man.
