Quotes about Change
Grace transforms desolate and bleak plains into rich, green pastures. It changes grit-your-teeth duty into loving, enthusiastic service. It exchanges the tears and guilt of our own failed efforts for the eternal thrill and laughter of freely offered pleasures at the right hand of God. Grace changes everything!
— Chuck Smith
When you figure out where you're messing up and you hate that behavior bad enough, that's where all the good parts of you begin.
— Cindy Woodsmall
He changed sunset into sunrise.
— Clement of Alexandria
My life didn't please me, so I created my life.
— Coco Chanel
conversion is a necessary and moral duty for every man.
— Herman Bavinck
Conversion means a religious and moral change in man, by which he gives up his sinful ways and learns to know, love, and serve with his whole heart the true God who has revealed himself in Christ;
— Herman Bavinck
All worldviews, therefore, end in an eschatology and all efforts at reformation are animated by faith in the future.
— Herman Bavinck
The superhuman task of transforming present society into a state of peace and joy requires more than ordinary human power; if God himself does not work the change, hope can be cherished only when human power is divinized.
— Herman Bavinck
No psychology of religion can teach us what conversion is and ought to be; the Scriptures alone can tell us that.
— Herman Bavinck
If there ever is to be a blessed humanity it must be preceded by a radical change in human nature.
— Herman Bavinck
See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
— Herman Melville
Do not, I beseech you, be troubled about the increase of forces already in dissolution. You have mistaken the hour of the night; it is already morning.
— Hilaire Belloc