Quotes about Change

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends. For every friend whom he loses for truth, he gains a better.

Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind, and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that era.

Heartily know, when half-gods go, the gods arrive.

The people who change lives are the ones who point us away from the world's short-term perspective to God's long-term perspective. Life on earth is a dot, a brief window of opportunity; life in Heaven (and ultimately on the New Earth) is a line going out from that dot for eternity. If we're smart, we'll live not for the dot, but for the line.

Augustine was right: "It is the decided opinion of all who use their brains that all men desire to be happy. . . . The happy life which all men desire cannot be reached by any who does not cleave with a pure and holy love to that one supreme good, the unchangeable God.

Tolstoy said, "The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed in two ways: by a change of life or by a change of conscience." Many of us have elected to adjust our consciences rather than our lives. Our powers of rationalization allow us to live in luxury and indifference while others, whom we could help if we chose to, go hungry, are abused and exploited, or go to Hell.

No amount of regret changes the past. No amount of anxiety changes the future. Any amount of grateful joy changes the present.

Time isn't just a fleeting thing. It never moves forward without engraving its mark upon the heart.

The tragedy with growing up is not that we lose childishness in its simplicity, but that we lose childlikeness in its sublimity.

The world is in great need. There is so much that needs to be done.

Perfection, then, is not a change in the essential character but the completion of a course. This is precisely what Jesus must have meant when he admonished his disciples and us to 'be perfect,' as our Heavenly Father is perfect.

monotony finds no relief in adding variety or changing our attitude about it. Activity does not create meaning; it is the other way around.