Quotes about Change

Worldly renown is naught but a breath of wind, which now comes this way and now comes that, and changes name because it changes quarter.

One thing I do know is that when I hold on tightly to the old things, God cannot fill my hands with the new.

If you stop dreaming, you get complacent, and complacency never changes the world.

I cannot change the world. You cannot change the world. Even prayer alone doesn't change the world. Only God can change the world! However, God uses prayer to change us, and then God uses us to change our world.

is true. We change not by mustering up willpower but by changing the way we think, which will also involve changing our actions and our social environment. We change indirectly. We do what we can.

The reason God responds to persistence is because prayer is changing the one who prays. As we pray, God is making us spiritually fit to receive what He is already willing to do. Prayer changes us into the people who can participate in the greater work of God without being spoiled by it through pride or becoming discouraged by the increased weight of greater fruitfulness.

God's love is not a pampering love. God's love is a perfecting love. God does not get up every day trying to figure how He can plant a bigger smile on your face. God is in the process of growing us and changing us. His love is a transforming love.

All change begins with a change of mind the Bible calls repentance. Repentance is detecting and destroying the rationalizations that led to me checking the sinful choice box in the first place. Repentance is what every biblical prophet was calling for because that is where a man begins to move from depravity to quality.

In counseling, we don't simply help people to change one thought; we help people to understand the pattern of their thinking — their mindsets.

For life change to happen, we must commit to full cooperation with God's desire to transform us.

Turning to him, Spurgeon said, "If you had gone up the way you came down, you could have come down the way you went up.

If our counseling is truly Christ-centered, then the topic of forgiveness will inevitably come up in the journey toward growth and change.