Quotes about Change

Sanctification is like a clumsy, slow walk rather than a light switch that we turn from off to on.

Whatever touches the nerves of motive, whatever shifts man's moral position, is mightier than steam, or calorie, or lightening.

Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.

Death: To stop sinning suddenly.

It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.

Light a candle instead of cursing the darkness.

It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness.

You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.

Nothing alive can stand still, it goes forward or back. Life is interesting only as long as it is a process of growth; or, to put it another way, we can only grow as long as we are interested.

Human relationships, like life itself, can never remain static. They grow or they diminish. But, in either case, they change. Our emotional interests, our intellectual pursuits, our personal preoccupations, all change. So do those of our friends. So the relationship that binds us together must change too; it must be flexible enough to meet the alterations of person and circumstance

The hard part of loving is that one has to learn so often to let go of those we love, so they can do things, so they can grow, so they can return to us with an even richer, deeper love.

It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.