Quotes About Change

Sometimes prayer moves the hand of God, and sometimes prayer changes the heart of the person who is praying.

Change only takes place through action, not through meditation and prayer.

Prayer if it is real is an acknowledgment of our finitude, our need, our openness to be changed, our readiness to be surprised, yes, astonished by the "beams of love."

And if by prayer Incessant I could hope to change the will Of Him who all things can, I would not cease To weary Him with my assiduous cries.

Not a lot of individuals get to refer to the Lord in their prayers as 'Dude', but he's doing a new thing with me.

When we pray, we don't change the world, we change ourselves.

Change can be accomplished most of all through the power of prayer, because with God all things are possible.

Prayer among men is supposed a means to change the person to whom we pray; but prayer to God doth not change him, but fits us to receive the things prayed for.

It appears that the Soviets are now going to allow prayer in school. One wonders how soon the United States will catch up.

Prayer is like water - something you can't imagine has the strength or power to do any good, and yet give it time and it can change the lay of the land.

If you are not open to the unprecedented, you will repeat history. If you are open to the unprecedented, you will change history. The difference is prayer.

What I dislike least in my former self are the moments of prayer.

So it is that a new politics centers around the arousal of that power, using prayer and meditation to create a force field of transformation.

I learned by experience that you can change your circumstance. It's as simple as the serenity prayer; it's a very, very real thing.

To imagine that God wants prayers and hymns of praise is to make him out to a sort of oriental potentate; while praying for favours is an attempt to get him to change his allegedly all-wise mind.

Prayer does not change God but it changes him who prays.

Prayer changes things.

A power struggle collapses when you withdraw your energy from it. Power struggles become uninteresting to you when you change your intention from winning to learning about yourself.

No. The universe has to move forward. Pain and loss, they define us as much as happiness or love. Whether it's a world, or a relationship... Everything has its time. And everything ends.

It was not a healthy marriage for long time. It was never about another man, it was about what my and Dennis's relationship could not sustain.

Relationships end, but they don't end your life.

We have to shift our attitude of ownership of nature to relationship with nature. The moment you change from ownership to relationship, you create a sense of the sacred.

All my Ex's live in Texas, and that's why I hang my hat in Tennessee.

A thought for today: 'People change and forget to tell each other.'