Quotes about Change

Are we living in a culture that is so infatuated with change that we have forgotten that the church is about transformation, not mere change?

Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.

I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people.

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward.

Do something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.

For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake. The feeling of the nation must be quickened; the conscience of the nation must be roused; the propriety of the nation must be startled; the hypocrisy of the nation must be exposed; and its crimes against God and man must be proclaimed and denounced.

Rome is burning, Jesus says. Drop your fiddle, change your life and come to Me. Let go of the good days that never were - a regimented church you never attended, traditional virtues you never practiced, legalistic obedience you never honored, and a sterile orthodoxy you never accepted. The old era is done. The decisive inbreak of God has happened.

The gospel will persuade no one unless it has so convicted us that we are transformed by it.

Shakespeare described love as an "ever-fixed mark." In a healthy family, you know how love is defined: It's clear, has boundaries, and is attainable. Unfortunately, in a shame-bound family, love is a moving target; one day it's this and one day it's that, and just when you're sure you've got it figured out, you discover you don't.

As Emile Leger said when he left his mansion in Montreal to go live in a leper colony in Africa, "The time for talking is over.

Every change in the quality of a person's life must grow out of a change in his or her vision of reality.