Quotes About Change

The future's better than the past. Or what's the point?

You have the freedom to change your mind as long as those decisions are beneficial, in line with God's Word, and don't permanently harm the people around you.

Many times expecting personal transformation to happen without humility is like expecting a car to move forward without fuel.

Seriously. All those times I said I hated you? I didn't. I realise that now. That hate was nothing. It was a microscopic semen stain on the hotel mattress of life. But this hate I feel now is so much more. It's bukkake-level compared to what came before.

Our Love has slowly slipped away,Our Love has seen its better day.

You know I used to think the future was solid or fixed, something you inherited like an old building that you move into when the previous generation moves out or gets chased out. But it's not. The future is not fixed, it's fluid.

We forget that God's primary goal ia 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.

The fatal flaw of human wisdom is that it promises that you can change your relationships without needing to change yourself. Every painful thing we experience in relationships is meant to remind us of our need for God. And every good thing we experience is meant to be a metaphor of what we can only find in Him.... We settle for the satisfaction of human relationships when they were meant to point us to the perfect relational satisfaction found only with God.

An instrument s a tool that is actively used to change something, and God has called all of his people to be instruments of change in his redemptive hands

Change is not found in defending our righteousness, but in admitting our weakness and crying for help.

The ultimate purpose of the Word of God is not theological information but heart and life transformation.

Change is about learning what is right, acknowledging that it is right, confessing that you have been wrong, committing to a new way of living, and seeking the help you need to do it. (66)

Here's how gospel growth works: you cannot grieve what you do not see, you cannot confess what you haven't grieved, and you can't repent of what you haven't confessed.

When the thing you have been trusting (whether you knew it or not) is laid to waste, you don't suffer just the loss of that thing; you also suffer the loss of the identity and security that it provided.

Change begins at the level of the heart.

the struggle of midlife is fundamentally rooted in the idolatries of the heart.

Since sin is deeper than bad behavior, trying to do better isn't a solution. Only grace that changes the heart can rescue us.

The same grace that forgives your past empowers you to live in a new way in the future.

God is at work, taking people who instinctively speak for themselves and transforming them into people who effectively speak for him.

We need more than acceptance or practical strategies for change. We need the forgiveness, deliverance, and empowerment that only God's grace can give.

Our problem is that we tend to be unfaithful to his holy agenda and get kidnapped by our plans for us and our dreams for our lives. The trials in our lives exist not because he has forgotten us, but because he remembers us and is changing us by his grace. When you remember that, you can have joy in the middle of what is uncomfortable.

Sadly, rather than growing in a sense of need for and submission to the authority that God has placed in their lives, many children become emotional weathermen. They have come to understand that the rules of the house tend to change with the emotion of the parent who is present.

Change is about learning what is right, acknowledging that it is right, confessing that you have been wrong, committing to a new way of living, and seeking the help you need to do

When the Word of God, faithfully taught by the people of God and empowered by the Spirit of God, falls down, people become different.