Quotes about Change
A man cannot do good before he is made good.
— Martin Luther
This grace of God is a very great, strong, mighty and active thing. It does not lie asleep in the soul. Grace hears, leads, drives, draws, changes, works all in man, and lets itself be distinctly felt and experienced. It is hidden, but its works are evident.
— Martin Luther
To progress is always to begin always to begin again
— Martin Luther
Blood alone moves the wheels of history
— Martin Luther
By contrast, if God works in us, the will is changed, and being gently breathed upon by the Spirit of God, it again wills and acts from pure willingness and inclination and of its own accord, not from compulsion
— Martin Luther
But grace has changed my nature for the better, to keep me from joining them and shedding innocent blood.
— Martin Luther
If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.
— Martin Luther
I refuse to accept the cynical notion that nation after nation must spiral down a militaristic stairway into the hell of nuclear destruction. I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is historically and biologically true that there can be no birth and growth without birth and growing pains. Whenever there is the emergence of the new we confront the recalcitrance of the old. So the tensions which we witness in the world today are indicative of the fact that a new world order is being born and an old order is passing away.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
The sooner our society admits that the Negro Revolution is no momentary outburst soon to subside into placid passivity, the easier the future will be for us all.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
The curse of poverty has no justification in our age.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
The question is not whether we will be extremists but what kind of extremist will we be.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.