Quotes About Change

Every saint has a past, the sixteenth-century poet had said, and every sinner has a future.

We must stop listening to voices from the past--and we must stop immediately.--Father Tim

With my mother's death," Lewis wrote, "all settled happiness, all that was tranquil and reliable, disappeared from my life. There was to be much fun, many pleasures, many stabs of Joy; but no more of the old security.

This would be his first morning without caffeine.

Me, either, pal. I'd rather reach in a cow's rear end any day than have to deal with a horse's behind." "Harry Nelson is being transferred to Birmingham," Father Tim said mildly, having saved this pièce de résistance for the right moment.

the trees began to form

One of the things that makes a dead leaf fall to the ground is the bud of the new leaf that pushes it off the limb. When you let God fill you with His love and forgiveness, the things you think you desperately want to hold on to start falling away  . . . and we hardly notice their passing.

The sin life in us must be transformed into the spiritual life." "How?" "Through sacrifice and obedience.

One of the things that makes a dead leaf fall to the ground is the bud of the new leaf that pushes it off the limb.

The firefly only shines when on the wing, So it is with us--when we stop, we darken.

Sometimes you have to gag on fancy before you can appreciate plain, th' way I see it. For too many years, I ate fancy, I dressed fancy, I talked fancy. A while back, I decided to start talkin' th' way I was raised t' talk, and for th' first time in forty years, I can understand what I'm sayin'.

A journey need not be long, in terms of time, to turn everything upside down. A day or two in a strange place can change your life

Ancient Tragedy is loss of life, modern Tragedy is loss of purpose.

Travel, which was once either a necessity or an adventure, has become very largely a commodity, and from all sides we are persuaded into thinking that it is a social requirement, too.

I hear there are people who actually enjoy moving. Sounds like a disease to me - they must be unstable. Though it does have it's poetry, I'll allow that. When an old dwelling starts looking desolate, a mixture of regret and anxiety comes over us and we feel like we are leaving a safe harbor for the rolling sea. As for the new place, it looks on us with alien eyes, it has nothing to say to us, it is cold.

change, the Presence I am steeped in never alters, the Ground of my Being never moves.

Some of you will not come back. Some of you will come back maimed. Those of you who do come back will come back changed men. That is war!

I see the life draining out of her and something else taking its place, but I don't know what. Maybe that's the problem. Maybe nothing is taking its place.

Mrs. Miniver suddenly understood why she was enjoying the forties so much better than she had enjoyed the thirties: it was the difference between August and October, between the heaviness of late summer and the sparkle of early autumn, between the ending of an old phase and the beginning of a fresh one.

Clem Miniver: She was a good cook, as good cooks go. And as good cooks go, she went.

Not that he disliked school; but it had to be regarded, he found, as another life, to be approached only by way of the Styx. You died on the station platform, were reborn, not without pangs, in the train, and emerged at the other end a different person, with a different language, a different outlook, and a different scale of values.

That would be no less shrewd: for when you first come home from a strange place you are always something of a ghost. They were sorry when you went away, and they welcome you back with affection: but in the meanwhile they have adjusted their lives a little to your absence.

De mensen zijn zo consequent als een toverbal en zo voorspelbaar als een tsunami en soms deugen ze opeens.

In some instances we saw how God had changed our requests, transformed our desires, and then given us things that we didn't know we wanted until he placed them in our hands.