Quotes about Change

Suffering and dying is the way by which the world is changed. This is how the revolution continues.

It all becomes so complicated, people grumble—when what they really mean is, "I am so used to reading this passage one way that I find it hard to switch and consider other options.

One of the great New Testament words is Now. That was then, this is now.

It is not the conscious changes made in their lives by men and women--a new job, a new town, a divorce--which really shape them, like the chapter headings in a biography, but a long, slow mutation of emotion, hidden, all-penetrative; something by which they may be so taken up that the practical outward changes of their lives in the world, noted with surprise, scandal, or envy by others, pass almost unnoticed by themselves.

In every historical period, the religious groups that grow most rapidly are those that set believers at odds with the surrounding culture.

A worldview can be replaced only by another worldview.

The only way to drive out bad culture is with good culture.

Forget the past.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Violence was the only weapon that would destroy apartheid.

One day, George Mbekela paid a visit to my mother. "Your son is a clever young fellow," he said. "He should go to school." My mother remained silent. No one in my family had ever attended school and my mother was unprepared for Mbekela's suggestion. But she did relay it to my father, who despite—or perhaps because of—his own lack of education immediately decided that his youngest son should go to school. The

In my country we go to prison first and then become President.