Quotes about Change

wind is blowing. It may be a breeze that cools and comforts. It may be a gust

We can recognize, moreover, that a move beyond our tribalism never happens in the ordinary. It takes a miracle, or a jolt, or a gift, or killing (as in Charleston) to awaken us from our tribal numbness, to see and act afresh.

Observance of the freedom God has to change causes a terrible unsettling among the faithful.

Prophetic preaching is dangerous work, not only because it has a subversive edge but because it requires an epistemological break with the assumed world of dominant imagination. This epistemological break makes us aware of our assumptions we have not recognized or reflected upon.

History is never antiquated, because humanity is always fundamentally the same.

There is certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse; as I have found in traveling in a stage coach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position and be bruised in a new place.

It is wrong to condemn people for doing a thing and then offer no alternative but failure. A person could get mad about that.

We have lived by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. We have been wrong. We must change our lives, so that it will be possible to live by the contrary assumption that what is good for the world will be good for us. . . We must recover the sense of the majesty of the creation and the ability to be worshipful in its presence. For it is only on the condition of humility and reverence before the world that our species will be able to remain in it.

Worldly renown is naught but a breath of wind, which now comes this way and now comes that, and changes name because it changes quarter.

One thing I do know is that when I hold on tightly to the old things, God cannot fill my hands with the new.

If you stop dreaming, you get complacent, and complacency never changes the world.