Quotes About Change

All their commitments to change have been subverted by the one thing they seem unwilling to do: take the focus off the other and put it on themselves. Here is the point: no change takes place in a marriage that does not begin with confession.

You can't keep the second Great Commandment unless you are first keeping the first. Only in bowing before God and submitting to his desires can we really turn to one another in peace and love. Any agenda for change that forgets this vertical causality will prove temporary and cosmetic.

They were convinced that they had made the mistake of marrying a messed-up person; they were convinced that the other had made them do things they would not otherwise have done; and they were convinced that they had no power to make the other change, although they had tried.

These principles are deeply relational because the gospel is. Remember that the gospel of God's grace teaches us that lasting change of heart and hands always takes place in the context of relationship, first with God and then with the people of God.

if threats, manipulation, and guilt could create lasting change in the life of another person, Jesus would not have had to come.

It is humbling, but it is important to remember that it is only ever the sin inside us that hooks us to the sin outside of us. So what we need most is not a change of location or relationship, but a fundamental rescue of heart, and that is exactly what God's grace in the person of the Holy Spirit provides for us.

The purpose of God's grace is to free you from your slavery to you so that you can live for a much, much better kingdom:

Theology that isn't zealous to promote forgiving and transforming grace, the kind of grace that changes your life, is simply bad theology.

What is will not last forever.

We cannot treat the Bible as a collection of therapeutic insights. To do so distorts its message and will not lead to lasting change. If a system could give us what we need, Jesus would never have come. But he came because what was wrong with us could not be fixed any other way. He is the only answer, so we must never offer a message that is less than the good news. We don't offer people a system; we point them to a Redeemer. He is hope.

la gracia del evangelio no busca cambiar los aspectos religiosos de nuestras vidas; más bien busca cambiar todas las cosas que nos definen y nos motivan

truth like this is revelation that completely changes the posture of my life.

But here is the reality: all of the horizontal battles are the fruit of a deeper war. The most important war, the one that needs to be won, is not the war they are having with each other, but a war that wages within them individually. Real change is all about winning this war.

No podemos tratar a la Biblia como una serie de conocimientos terapéuticos. Esto distorsiona el mensaje y no dará lugar a un cambio perdurable. Si un sistema puede darnos lo que necesitamos, Jesús nunca hubiera venido.

We should never become achievement satisfied, because there is always more gospel work to do. But we must always remind one another that achievement is a spiritual minefield. Achievement has the power to change us—to change who we think we are and what we think we are capable of doing. Sadly, achievement can turn humble servant leaders into proud, controlling, and unapproachable mini-kings. But there is powerful, right-here, right-now grace for this struggle.

There is grace for our fickle and easily distracted hearts.

Someone once said that you never see a person in a protest carrying a sign with an arrow pointing downward and with the words "I am the problem" painted on it.

If rules and regulations had the power to change the heart and life of your child, rescuing your child from himself and giving him a heart of submission and faith, Jesus would have never needed to come!

Suffering doesn't so much change your heart as expose what has been in your heart all along.

Consideración. ¿Qué quiere Dios que la persona vea? Confesión. ¿Qué quiere Dios que la persona reconozca y confiese? Compromiso. ¿A qué nuevas formas de vida está llamando Dios a esta persona? Cambio. ¿Cómo deben aplicarse estos nuevos compromisos a la vida diaria?

Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that could be called a true present, a point of origin that marks a new departure.

Ik of hij, vanop een afstand ben ik hij, teruglopend word ik ik.

Ik leef niet, ik zit hier en kijk, terwijl ik schrijf zie ik, ontdek ik wat ik tevoren niet wist, ik vind stukjes van een puzzel waaraan ik misschien mijn hele leven zal werken, nooit komt het legwerk klaar want het verleden wisselt voortdurend van gedaante volgens het heden (dat niets anders is dan de kop van dit verleden) en de toekomst (die morgen de kop van dit verleden zal zijn).

Als je Proust gelezen hebt, is je leven veranderd.