Quotes about Change
God changes caterpillars into butterflies, sand into pearls and coal into diamonds using time and pressure. He's working on you, too.
- Rick Warren
I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then.
- Lewis Carroll
There was a time when I had all the answers. My real growth began when I discovered that the questions to which I had the answers were not the important questions.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
Every time we say we believe in the Holy Spirit, we mean we believe that there is a living God able and willing to enter human personality and change it.
- John Owen
This white man who is saying "it takes time." For three hundred and more years they have had "time," and now it is time for them to listen.
- Fannie Lou Hamer
The Curse of poverty has no justification in our age...The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition of poverty.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The future starts today, not tomorrow.
- Pope John Paul II
God gives us love! Something to love He lends us; but when love is grown To ripeness, that on which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone: This is the curse of time.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
There is still time for endurance, time for patience, time for healing, time for change. Have you slipped? Rise up. Have you sinned? Cease. Do not stand among sinners, but leap aside.
- St. Basil
Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
A healthy human environment is one in which we try to make sense of our limits, of the accidents that can always befall us and the passage of time which inexorably changes us.
- Rowan Williams
It's time for women to stop being politely angry.
- Leymah Gbowee