We can't change by fancy methods. We can't change by mere willpower. But God's Spirit working in us can help us to "will and to act according to his good purpose" (Philippians 2:13).

One mistake does not have to rule a person's entire life.

God wants you to be delivered from what you have done and from what has been done to you - Both are equally important to Him.

You can suffer the pain of change or suffer remaining the way you are.

One mistake does not have to rule a person's entire life.

Our past may explain why we're suffering but we must not use it as an excuse to stay in bondage.

Change isn't a scary thing. It's constant and inevitable.

There's nothing efficient about innovation.

Time may not be on our side, but innovation is.

That dreadful consciousness of a narrow and limiting I-hood which dogs our search for freedom and full life, is done away. For a moment, at least, the independent spiritual life is achieved. The contemplative is merged in it "like a bird in the air, like a fish in the sea": loses to find and dies to live.

The Lord works from the inside out. The world works from the outside in. The world would take people out of the slums. Christ would take the slums out of people, and then they would take themselves out of the slums. The world would mold men by changing their environment. Christ changes men, who then change their environment. The world would shape human behavior, but Christ can change human nature.

True repentance involves a change of heart and not just a change of behavior.