Quotes about Change

Or again we might say that we are at a Daniel-like moment, for Daniel and his three friends faced a challenge unlike that of most of the Jews before them. The world as the Jews had known it for hundreds of years from Joshua onward had gone. Not since the captivity in Egypt had Jews been strangers in a strange land as they found themselves when defeated and deported as exiles to Babylon in the sixth century B.C.

The key to changing the world is not simply being there, but an active, transforming engagement of a singularly robust and energetic kind.

Science is the record of dead religions.

Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

To say that 'prayer changes things' is not as close to the truth as saying, 'prayer changes me and then I change things.' God has established things so that prayer, on the basis of redemption, changes the way a person looks at things.

say that "prayer changes things" is not as close to the truth as saying, "Prayer changes me and then I change things." God has established things so that prayer, on the basis of redemption, changes the way a person looks at things. Prayer is not a matter of changing things externally, but one of working miracles in a person's inner nature.

It is not so true that "prayer changes things" as that prayer changes me and I change things.

The grace you had yesterday will not be sufficient for today.

Beware of harking back to what you were once when God wants you to be something you have never been. "If any man will do . . . , he shall know .

Beware of paying attention or going back to what you once were, when God wants you to be something that you have never been. "If anyone wills to do His will, he shall know . . ." (John 7:17).

Man is not God but hath God's end to serve, A master to obey, a course to take, Somewhat to cast off, somewhat to become. Grant this, then man must pass from old to new, From vain to real, from mistake to fact, From what once seemed good, to what now proves best. —Robert Browning

But the most impossible thing for you is to be so closely identified with the Lord that there is literally nothing of your old life remaining.