Quotes About Change

France is revolutionary or she is nothing at all. The revolution of1789 is her political religion.

This, however, is a passing nightmare; in time the earth will become again incapable of supporting life, and peace will return.

Religion began as a natural explanation of the universe. The problem started when people refused to accept new evidence.

Missionaries are perfect nuisances and leave every place worse than they found it.

somewhere about the eighteenth century, history tacitly replaced religion as the school of public morals.

If your religion does not change you, then you had better change your religion.

The greatest vicissitude of things amongst men, is the vicissitude of sects and religions.

The old harlot, German philosophy, has finally turned into a church lady.

Most people we observe who practice self-discovery just get caught up in a new description, a new "ism", a new religion, a new god. But nothing changes.

Man is a venerating animal. He venerates as easily as he purges himself. When they take away from him the gods of his fathers he looks for others abroad.

The first Sunday I sang in the church choir two hundred people changed their religion.

No great advance has been made in science, politics, or religion without controversy.

Belief, he says. Belief shifts. People start out believing in the god and end up believing in the structure.

People can change their external lives with religion, but a lasting internal change only happens through a daily relationship with Jesus.

Men get drunk and boast, or they get religion and repent.

You can't fulfill your calling inside your comfort zone.

Grace runs downhill and now all his time is being redeemed.

Man has been evolved and created the gods. Evolved more and decided to destroy all of them.

It's not like the Middle Ages, when you had the Church and the aristocracy keeping everything nice and stagnant.

For transformation to be successful, we the people must first liberate ourselves and our brethren from the clutches of religion.

I have always found the hardest mind to change is one that is religious.

We've spent centuries moving them away from that word virtue and especially The Virtues and that's precisely how we did it —by making it lower case.

You have to risk falling to be able to fly.

I'm just trying to remember what self-respect feels like. It's a fading memory.