Quotes about Change

Rewriting the go-to scripts is one of the most crucial steps toward permanent progress.

Willpower alone is not enough to bring about this change; start by realizing that you cannot do this alone. If you are a person of faith, use that connection to help you change.

I am a woman whose identity has been changed by coming face to face with the One who has the power to completely transform me.

The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics.

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.