Quotes about Change

The man [Grant] who more than any other, save Lincoln, had changed us into a nation whose citizens were all freemen, realized entirely that these freemen would remain free only while they kept mastery over their own evil passions.

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.

As iron cast into fire loses its rust and becomes glowing white, so he who turns completely to God is stripped of his sluggishness and changed into a new man.

As long as you live, you will be subject to change, whether you will it or not - now glad, now sorrowful; now pleased, now displeased; now devout, now undevout; now vigorous, now slothful; now gloomy, now merry. But a wise man who is well taught in spiritual labor stands unshaken in all such things, and heeds little what he feels, or from what side the wind of instability blows.

If you gave more frequent thought to your death than to a long life, you would unquestionably be more eager to amend your life.

As often as I have been among men, I have returned home a lesser man.

Repentance is a change of the mind, and regeneration is a change of the man.

It is absurd and a detestable shame, that we should suffer those traditions to be changed which we have received from the fathers of old.

I answer that, The will can be changed in two ways. First, from within; in which way, since the movement of the will is nothing but the inclination of the will to the thing willed, God alone can thus change the will, because He gives the power of such an inclination to the intellectual nature. For as the natural inclination is from God alone Who gives the nature, so the inclination of the will is from God alone, Who causes the will.

What I think the average person wants is not a fight; they want to see something move forward in their own neighborhood.

I would never say never. You never know what is going to happen.

New faces have more authority than accustomed ones.