Quotes about Change

O earth, what changes hast thou seen!

Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.

None of us, in our culture of comfort, know how to prepare ourselves for dying, but that's what we should do every day. Every single day, we die a thousand deaths.

But the reconciliation of the world to God cannot be described as an episode in history among others; it is a change in what historical agents may hope for, think about and pray about.

Do not let your bachelor ways crystallize so that you can't soften them when you come to have a wife and a family of your own.

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.

Bütün uyuyanlar? uyand?rmaya bir tek uyan?k yeter.

If you stick a knife in my back nine inches and pull it out six inches, there's no progress. If you pull it all the way out that's not progress. Progress is healing the wound that the blow made. And they haven't even pulled the knife out much less heal the wound.

Look at yourselves. Some of you teenagers, students. How do you think I feel and I belong to a generation ahead of you - how do you think I feel to have to tell you, 'We, my generation, sat around like a knot on a wall while the whole world was fighting for its human rights - and you've got to be born into a society where you still have that same fight.' What did we do, who preceded you? I'll tell you what we did. Nothing. And don't you make the same mistake we made....

If you're afraid of black nationalism, you're afraid of revolution. And if you love revolution, you love black nationalism.

I have since learned—helping me to understand what then began to happen within me—that the truth can be quickly received, or received at all, only by the sinner who knows and admits that he is guilty of having sinned much. Stated another way: only guilt admitted accepts truth. The Bible again: the one people whom Jesus could not help were the Pharisees; they didn't feel they needed any help.