Quotes about Change

We need to forget what we think we are, so that we can really become what we are.

What other people label or might try to call failure, I have learned is just God's way of pointing you in a new direction

A holy and heavenly life is a continual pain to the consciences of sinners around you and continually solicits them to change their course.

All tradition is merely the past.

Faith never denies reality but leaves room for God to grant a new reality.

All changes — ?spiritual revivals, a turnaround in a church, a barren life now bearing fruit — ?begin when there is a discontentment that says, "I refuse to accept this.

A basic sign of revival is that the wind is allowed to blow where it will.

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

You must constantly ask yourself these questions: Who am I around? What are they doing to me? What have they got me reading? What have they got me saying? Where do they have me going? What do they have me thinking? And most important, what do they have me becoming? Then ask yourself the big question: Is that okay? Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.

We generally change ourselves for one of two reasons: inspiration or desperation.

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself.