Quotes about Change

As long ago as Pythagoras, man was taught that all things were in a state of flux, without end as without beginning, and must we still, after more than two thousand years, pretend to regard the universe as some gigantic toy manufactured in six days by a Superhuman Artisan, who is presently to destroy it at his pleasure?

Life has a way of overgrowing its achievements as well as its ruins.

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature, and the means perhaps of its conservation. All we can do, and that human wisdom can do, is to provide that the change shall proceed by insensible degrees. This has all the benefits which may be in change, without any of the inconveniences of mutation.

Untried forms of government may, to unstable minds, recommend themselves even by their novelty.

I wished to warn the people against the greatest of all evils,—a blind and furious spirit of innovation, under the name of reform.

The very idea of the fabrication of a new government is enough to fill us with disgust and horror.

When psychological needs, rather than sin, are seen as our primary problem, not only is our self-understanding affected, but the gospel itself is changed.

Change starts, proceeds, and ends with Jesus. We look to Jesus and away from ourselves.

Deep change is rarely a matter of knowledge. It is a matter of repentance.

Every revolutionary ends as an oppressor or a heretic.

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the State.