Quotes about Change

this too shall pass

One's doing well if age improves even slightly one's capacity to hold on to that vital truism: This too shall pass.

We must live with our enemies as if they might one day become our friends, and live with our friends as if they might some time or other become our enemies.

How did we ever get to believe that faithfulness involved simply retaining past forms and thinking? With the Creator God as our Father, how did we ever become the socially conservative stiflers of innovation that we are so notoriously perceived to be?

Do your little bit of good where you are; it is those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

Before Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1962, he was an angry, relatively young man. He founded the ANC's military wing. When he was released, he surprised everyone because he was talking about reconciliation and forgiveness and not about revenge.

This is the end. For me the beginning of life.

Love, in the sense of spontaneous, unreflective action, spells the death of the old man.

I wonder why it is that we find some days so much more oppressive than others, for no apparent reason. Is it growing pains - or spiritual trial? Once they're over, the world looks quite a different place again.

The day will come … when people will once more be called to speak the word of God in such a way that the world is changed and renewed. It will be in a new language, perhaps quite nonreligious language, but liberating and redeeming like Jesus's language, so that people will be alarmed, and yet overcome by its power—the language of a new righteousness and truth, a language proclaiming that God makes peace with humankind and that God's kingdom is drawing near.

In the gospels the very first step a man must take is an act which radically affects his whole existence.

Luther's return from the cloister to the world was the worst blow the world had suffered since the days of early Christianity.