Quotes about Transition

Leaders must always be looking to give away their jobs to people who can do it as well or better than they. This calls for a level of intimacy between the leader and disciple that does not last. The leader begins to disengage; the disciple now becomes a leader. The closeness remains and is no longer defined by the amount of time spent together but by the openness with one another.

My kids have moved more in their twenties, you know, than my parents have moved in nearly 40-something years of marriage before they died. So there's a part of me that laments what we have lost, and that is a sense of community.

It is not strange... to mistake change for progress.

Don't accept your present state in life as final, because it is just that, a state.

doing. Was doing now. So Jesus seems to have been standing at the threshold

One of the great New Testament words is Now. That was then, this is now.

Heaven is important, but its not the end of the world

Death's the discarder.

It is not the conscious changes made in their lives by men and women--a new job, a new town, a divorce--which really shape them, like the chapter headings in a biography, but a long, slow mutation of emotion, hidden, all-penetrative; something by which they may be so taken up that the practical outward changes of their lives in the world, noted with surprise, scandal, or envy by others, pass almost unnoticed by themselves.

A worldview can be replaced only by another worldview.

A philosopher once noted that something is odd if a person is not liberal when he is young and conservative when he is old.

To someone from nowhere, every movement turns into a return.