Quotes About Transition

Here is another great contribution of the low-hanging fruit. You and many other people get to see what is working or not working on a relatively small scale. With this collective insight and wisdom, you are able to proceed more wisely with the larger change later. You get greater

Many guests really want to know, "What's next?" Is your church ready to answer them?

Do not enter into change leadership lightly. Do not begin the process without concerted prayer. And realize that change is all about people. If you don't deal with people issues in leading change, you will fail. It's just that simple.

Yes, we respect the past. At times we revere the past. But we can't live in the past.

The most pervasive and common thread of our autopsies was that the deceased churches lived for a long time with the past as hero. They held on more tightly with each progressive year. They often clung to things of the past with desperation and fear. And when any internal or external force tried to change the past, they responded with anger and resolution: "We will die before we change.

So, unlike the heroes of Hebrews 11 who held onto nothing of this life, these dying churches held onto everything, at least everything that made them comfortable and happy. Such is the reason we speak of them in the past.

Thomas Anderson

History begins in novel and ends in essay.

How fugitive and brief is mortal life between the budding and the falling leaf.

We weep when we are born, not when we die!

And who are you?" cried one agape, Shuddering in the gloaming light. "I know not" said the second Shape, "I only died last night.

I did not know it then, but my life was about to take a sharp turn. Strange and stranger (all carefully scientific of course) was about to become as common as air.

Bob thought that perhaps there was opportunity on the boundary between being awake and asleep.

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May but at length the season of summer does come.

Mercury descended in vain; now has the time come for Mars.

How lovely are the portals of the night, When stars come out to watch the daylight die.

What So Not used to be a lot more dance-y, and now it's becoming a lot more melodic. Flume has always had that melodic thing, but it's starting to become a bit heavier, so it's just difficult to navigate between the two.

You cannot expect the guy who drove the car into the ditch to navigate it out of the ditch. You have to put a new driver in the seat. I'm not saying the new driver is going to be any better, but we need a new driver. Kerry is the only choice.

I wanted to leave 'Eight Is Enough' for the Navy.

I went to the University of Maryland for a year and was considering maybe, you know, being a medical doctor but decided my other interest was maybe flying airplanes in the Navy and just kind of changed my mind and changed schools and changed majors and decided to focus a hundred percent on that.

I got out of the Navy in 1990.

Many people want to scale back their working hours as they near the end of their careers, but not necessarily to give up work altogether.

Across the board, people are looking at the problem, but simply not changing anywhere near fast enough.

High school is a haunted house in April, when seniors act up because the end is near. Even those who hate school sometimes cling to the devil they know. And for the kids who love it, the goodbyes are hard to think about.