Quotes about Change

So God's eternity is not a distinct good; but is the duration of good. His immutability is still the same good, with a negation of change. So that, as I said, the fullness of the Godhead is the fullness of his understanding, consisting in his knowledge; and the fullness of his will consisting in his virtue and happiness.

Books don't change people; paragraphs do, Sometimes even sentences.

Roll, years of promise, rapidly roll round, till not a slave shall on this earth be found.

Once in seven years I burn all my sermons; for it is a shame if I cannot write better sermons now than I did seven years ago.

What one generation tolerates, the next generation will embrace.

In the evening I went very unwillingly to a society in Aldersgate Street, where one was reading Luther's preface to the Epistle to the Romans. About a quarter before nine, while he was describing the change which God works in the heart through faith in Christ, I felt my heart strangely warmed. I felt I did trust in Christ, Christ alone, for salvation; and an assurance was given me that He had taken away my sins, even mine, and saved me from the law of sin and death.

We can have no progress without change, whether it be basketball or anything else.

Five years from now, you're the same person except for the people you've met and the books you've read.

Education, culture, the exercise of the will, human effort, all have their proper sphere, but here they are powerless. They may produce an outward correctness of behavior, but they cannot change the heart;

The Christian's life is not a modification or improvement of the old, but a transformation of nature.

Men are changed in accordance with what they contemplate.

One day's experience had been the turning point in Joseph's life. Its terrible calamity had transformed him from a petted child to a man, thoughtful, courageous, and self-possessed.