Quotes about Change

Jesus worked by changing the heart, not by legislating. Legislation can only force compliance. It can never produce the love necessary to change an attitude. Jesus

After the Vietnam War, a lot of us [antiwar graduate students] didn't just crawl back into our library cubicles; we stepped into academic positions. With the war over, our visibility was lost, and it seemed for awhile—to the unobservant—that we had disappeared. Now we have tenure, and the work of reshaping the universities has begun in earnest.2

mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.

How much older can you be at your age? A half minute before that you were stepping into high school, and an unhooked brassiere was as close as you ever hoped to get to Paradise. Only a fifth of a second before that you were a small kid with a ten-week summer vacation that lasted a hundred thousand years and still ended too soon. Zip! They go rocketing by so fast.

Do you know how long a year takes when it's going away?' Dunbar repeated to Clevinger. 'This long.' He snapped his fingers. 'A second ago you were stepping into college with your lungs full of fresh air. Today you're an old man.

You can laugh at Christianity. You can mock and ridicule it. But it works. If you trust Christ, start watching your attitudes and actions—Jesus Christ is in the business of changing lives.

No revolution that has ever taken place in society can be compared to that which has been produced by the words of Jesus Christ

There are two kinds of pain: the pain of change and the pain of never changing and remaining the same.

The absence of pain means death, so when something no longer bothers you, you've died to that thing.

I'm not where I need to be, but thank God i'm not where I used to be.

Sometimes new opportunity means new opposition. Not everything God asks us to do will be comfortable.

The sooner we learn feelings are fickle, the better off we are.