Quotes about Change

There are two kinds of people in this world; the clueless and the repentant, those who are open to looking at their life, and those who are not, both that know they need God to change them, and those that expect EVERYONE else to change.

The years have simply reconciled us to the fact that we are all here for the transformation.

What man is a man who does not make the world better?

For the religious spirit is like the flu—it is constantly adapting to the environment.

So you turn from your independence and all the ways you either charge at life or shrink from it; this may be one of the most basic and the most crucial ways you repent.

We live in a very different moment in the story than David and his colleagues; a great deal has changed since the Psalms were penned. The incarnation, for one thing—the Son of God has come. Your ransom, for another. The cross has happened, the resurrection too. Tectonic shifts have shaken the heavens and the earth, and those events change the posture of our praying in profound ways.

If not us, who? If not now, when?

If more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, I am convinced the world would be a little better place in which to live.

Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed—in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet [shofar]. For the trumpet [shofar] will sound, and the dead will be raised. (1 CORINTHIANS 15:51—52)

I am a violent man who has learned not to be violent and regrets his violence.

Life is what happens to you while you are busy making other plans. You better believe it.

Education has become a very powerful weapon in the struggle to produce a well-developed person.