Quotes about Change
Some accept the blood but forget the water. They want to be saved but don't want to be changed. Others accept the water but forget the blood. They are busy for Christ but never at peace in Christ.
— Max Lucado
Grace is God as heart surgeon, cracking open your chest, removing your heart—poisoned as it is with pride and pain—and replacing it with his own. Rather than tell you to change, he creates the change. Do you clean up so he can accept you? No, he accepts you and begins cleaning you up.
— Max Lucado
What intentional changes can you make in your daily schedule to ensure that God's character is at the forefront of your mind? How would your demeanor change if you would "dare to believe that good things will happen"?
— Max Lucado
No more Bethesda for you. No more waking up and going to sleep in the same mess. God dismantled the neutral gear from your transmission. He is the God of forward motion, the God of tomorrow. He is ready to write a new chapter in your biography.
— Max Lucado
There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life."1 Our deeds are ugly. Our actions are harsh. We don't do what we want to do, we don't like what we do, and what's worse—yes, there is something worse—we can't change.
— Max Lucado
Everything changes when we see the face of God.
— Max Lucado
Change always brings fear before it brings faith. We always assume the worst before we look for the best. God interrupts our lives with something we've never seen, and rather than praise, we panic! We interpret the presence of a problem as the absence of God and scoot!
— Max Lucado
him" (Deut. 11:2 TEV). Rather than ask God to change your circumstances, ask him to use your circumstances to change you. Life is a required course. Might as well do your best to pass it. God is at work in each of us whether
— Max Lucado
No life is too short or too long. You will live your prescribed number of days. You might change the quality of your days but not the quantity.
— Max Lucado
On the Anvil
— Max Lucado
We would be wrong to think this change happens overnight. But we would be equally wrong to assume change never happens at all.
— Max Lucado
3This is what the LORD All-Powerful, the God of Israel, says: Change your lives and do what is right!
— Max Lucado