Quotes about Change

We're a nation of laws, but the good thing about America, is that laws reside in the people and people can change the laws.

We are products of our past, but we don't have to be prisoners of it.

If you have felt hopeless, hold on! Wonderful changes are going to happen in your life as you begin to live it on purpose.

Suffering, it turns out, demands profound imagination. A new future has to be conjured up because the old future isn't there anymore.

The most oft-cited line of Newman's An Essay on the Development of Doctrine is situated in this context: "In a higher world it may be otherwise; but here below, to live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often." So indeed, Pope John's Newman-like image of the "flourishing garden of life" effectively holds off a stuffy traditionalism.

am persuaded that theology and spirituality are fundamentally one. The more we know about God, the more our lives change. In these articles and sermons, I try to show some practical implications of Christian doctrine. In section five, "The Way of Nonviolence," I have brought together articles that center around the theme of

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Life is like sailing. You can use any wind to go in any direction.

For centuries, man believed that the sun revolves around the earth. Centuries later, he still thinks that time moves clockwise.

An old belief is like an old shoe. We so value its comfort that we fail to notice the hole in it.

There are times when two people need to step apart from one another, but there is no rule that says they have to turn and fire.

Perhaps God gives us a physical body so that every time we change our mind, we won't be someone else.