Quotes About Change

Pointing to another world will never stop vice among us; shedding light over this world can alone help us.

Repentance is the key to reconciliation, and the key to repentance is an admission of wrong.

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

A political country is like an American forest; you have only to cut down the old trees, and immediately new trees come up to replace them.

The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.

Life is a school of probability.

A]n ancient and ever-altering constitution is like an old man who still wears with attached fondness clothes in the fashion of his youth: what you see of him is the same; what you do not see is wholly altered.

Overtime my writing style has evolved in part because I try to do something different with each book.

I change over time and my perception of the poem also changes, hence endless revision. I sometimes worry that I spend more time revising than writing new poems.

If you wait, you grow old, nothing more.

Torn from its branch, the moon waned for a couple of weeks.

On the breakup of Harrison Ford's first marriage It wasn't because he became a star. In all relationships there are changes and the point is both partners have to change together.

Marx says that revolutions are the locomotives of world history. But the situation may be quite different. Perhaps revolutions are not the train ride, but the human race grabbing for the emergency brake.

This is the old way of thinking, and most people think first as they have been taught to think; and next, as they see others think.

Prayer is a refusal to settle for what is.

Two movements in human life are important: (a) deep reluctance to let loose of a world that has passed away, and (b) capacity to embrace a new world being given.

The cry that breaks the silence is the sound of bodies becoming fully aware of what the predatory system has cost and being fully aware as well that it can be otherwise.

In a society that knows about initiative and self-actualization and countless other things, the capacity to lament the death of the old world is nearly lost. In a society strong on self-congratulation, the capacity to receive in doxology the new world being given is nearly lost.

The power of King Jesus is intrinsically revolutionary and subversive against every repressive regime.

The general claim of the oracle is that a new regime of peace and well-being will displace the older (Roman) order of violence and extortion.

Because if you cling excessively to the past, you will miss the newness being enacted before your very eyes.

First, that wherever you live, it is probably Egypt; second, that there is a better place, a world more attractive, a promised land; and third, that "the way to the land is through the wilderness." There is no way to get from here to there except by joining together and marching.

wind is blowing. It may be a breeze that cools and comforts. It may be a gust

We can recognize, moreover, that a move beyond our tribalism never happens in the ordinary. It takes a miracle, or a jolt, or a gift, or killing (as in Charleston) to awaken us from our tribal numbness, to see and act afresh.