Quotes About Change

Marriage requires a radical commitment to love our spouses as they are, while longing for them to be what they are not yet. Every marriage moves either toward enhancing one another's glory or toward degrading each other.

Repentance is an internal shift

When change is bumpy and messy, particularly if it impels others to change, it is viewed with suspicion and rancor usually reserved for the worst heretics.

May our philosophies keep pace with our technologies. May our compassion keep pace with our powers. And may love, not fear, be the engine of change.

Sometimes a change of perspective is all it takes to see the light.

History, if it has taught us anything at all, has taught us that the strange ideas we deride today will one day be our celebrated truths.

We are now perched on a strange cusp of history, a time when the world feels like it's been turned upside down, and nothing is quite as we imagined. But uncertainty is always a precursor to sweeping change; transformation is always preceded by upheaval and fear. I urge you to place your faith in the human capacity for creativity and love, because these two forces, when combined, possess the power to illuminate any darkness.

Perception is transformed, and a new reality is born.

Every generation's breakthroughs are proven false by the next generation's Technology

Anything is possible when people believe in a cause.

You came back because you've been running your whole life, and you finally realized you can't run anymore.

Soon you will lose everything you hold most dear.

Where we come from... is not nearly as startling as where we are going.

In Darwinian terms, a religion that ignores scientific facts and refuses to change its beliefs is like a fish stranded in a slowly drying pond and refusing to flip to deeper water because it doesn't want to believe its world has changed.

uncertainty is always a precursor to sweeping change; transformation is always preceded by upheaval and fear.

We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

And maybe that's why the only thing that keeps me going is my belief that we are capable of being better than we are Ã¢â'¬Â¦ capable of taking action to avoid a catastrophic future.

Sometimes you need to go up...to go down.

I call it 'Prayer for the Future.' " Edmond closed his eyes and spoke slowly, with startling assurance. "May our philosophies keep pace with our technologies. May our compassion keep pace with our powers. And may love, not fear, be the engine of change.

If we don't embrace them, then we are as undeserving of life as the caveman who freezes to death because he's afraid to start a fire.

Everyday I create myself...

Consider this!" Edmond declared. "It took early humans over a million years to progress from discovering fire to inventing the wheel. Then it took only a few thousand years to invent the printing press. Then it took only a couple hundred years to build a telescope. In the centuries that followed, in ever-shortening spans, we bounded from the steam engine, to gas-powered automobiles, to the Space Shuttle! And then, it took only two decades for us to start modifying our own DNA!

He warned that any church that ignored reality would not survive to enjoy the divine.

Darwin's theory described the survival of the fittest, but not the arrival of the fittest.