Quotes About Change

Sometimes it is a comfort to believe that one day is like another, that things happen over and over and are the same. But accidents happen, and sometimes a man or a woman is lucky enough to see that all of it, from the first light kiss onward, could have gone another way.

The past remains integral to us all, individually and collectively. We must concede the ancients their place, as I have argued. But their place is not simply back there in a separate and foreign country; it is assimilated in ourselves, and resurrected into an ever-changing present.

That explains it. The zap should have faded by evening, but the freeze made it permanent." "Permanent?

The business side of film has goofed up so many things, but even that's changing. It happened to the music industry and now it's happening to the film studios. It's crazy what's going on. But artists should have control of their work especially if, as I always say, you never turn down a good idea and never take a bad idea.

Just one touch will change your life for all eternity.

If we don't get to the roots of our sins, we will just keep confessing the same old things unproductively forever.

What else should our lives be but a continual series of beginnings, of painful settings out into the unknown, pushing off from the edges of consciousness into the mystery of what we have not yet become.

history is forever unfinished, forever in process; endless because our needs are endless.

What else is death but the refusal any longer to grow and suffer change?

So many things were new. Everything changed. The past would not hold and could not be held.

I understand that computers, which I once believed to be but a hermaphrodite typewriter-cum-filing cabinet, offer the cyber literate increased ability to communicate. I do not think this is altogether a bad thing, however it may appear on the surface.

I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. It doesn't change God - it changes me.

I just tried to create a little chaos. Chaos is a good thing. God created the whole world out of it. Change is what comes of it.

True repentance will entirely change you; the bias of your souls will be changed, then you will delight in God, in Christ, in His Law, and in His people.

God uses change to change us. He doesn't use it to destroy us or to distract us, but to coax us to the next level of character, experience, compassion and destiny!

No amount of rationalizing can change God's laws. No amount of fashion designing can turn immodesty into virtue, and no amount of popularity can change sin into righteousness.

It's habits that can imprison you and it's habits that can free you. But when thanks to God becomes a habit - so joy in God becomes your life.

We forget that God's primary goal is not changing our situations or relationships so that we can be happy, but changing us through our situations and relationships so that we will be holy.

As believers, you don't need to pray for a new heart, you need to pray for a new head.

God prunes us when He is about to take us into a new season of growth and expansion.

We can always find a reason to praise. Situations change for better and for worse, but God's worth never changes.

My nephews all look at me differently now. Before, they couldn't relate to me, and now I'm like a god.

The world for which you have been so carefully prepared is being taken away from you, by the grace of God.

We are, all of us, growing volcanoes that approach the hour of their eruption, but how near or distant that is, nobody knows- not even God.