Nothing paralyzes our lives like the attitude that things can never change. We need to remind ourselves that God can change things. Outlook determines outcome. If we see only the problems, we will be defeated; but if we see the possibilities in the problems, we can have victory.
– Warren Wiersbe
Perseverance | Victory | Change
Real contentment must come from within. You and I cannot change or control the world around us, but we can change and control the world within us.
– Warren Wiersbe
Contentment | Change
Encouragement is awesome. It (can) actually change the course of another person’s day, week, or life.
– Chuck Swindoll
Encouragement | Change
All great change in America begins at the dinner table.
– Ronald Reagan
Family | America | Change
Within each of us exists the image of God, however disfigured and corrupted by sin it may presently be. God is able to recover this image through grace as we are conformed to Christ.
– Alister McGrath
Grace | Change
Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.
– Blaise Pascal
Change | Grief | Healing
We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.
– Chuck Swindoll
Attitude | Change
That the Father and Son would love sinners that much is beyond our comprehension–but it ought to awaken a response of love and gratitude within our hearts that will change our lives forever!
– Dave Hunt
Gratitude | Change
To keep our faces toward change, and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate, is strength undefeatable.
– Helen Keller
Patience | Change | Freedom
Wherever the Bible has been consistently applied, it has dramatically changed the civilization and culture of those who have accepted its teaching. No other book has ever so dramatically changed the individual lives and society in general.
– John F. Walvoord
The Bible | Change
Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change; where we are right, make us easy to live with.
– Peter Marshall
Truth | Change
Will power does not change men. Time does not change men. Christ does.
– Henry Drummond
Christ | Change | Time
Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.
– Zig Ziglar
Apathy | Change | Men
You can endure change by pondering His permanence.
– Max Lucado
Change
A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.
– Florence Nightingale
Death | Change
There is no growth without change, no change without fear or loss and no loss without pain.
– Rick Warren
Suffering | Change | Growth
To stand before the Holy One of eternity is to change. Resentments cannot be held with the same tenacity when we enter his gracious light.
– Richard J. Foster
Change | Light
Changes in language often reflect the changing values of a culture.
– Ravi Zacharias
Change
If we were to become as intent on accomplishing our agenda as the gay rights activists and the feminist are for their agenda, we would see a change in this country. It’s time for the church in America to turn our world upside down.
– John Hagee
Evangelism | America | Change
The world changes – circumstances change, we change – but God’s Word never changes
– Warren Wiersbe
Scripture | Change | Circumstances
Sociologists have a theory of the looking-glass self: you become what the most important person in your life (wife, father, boss, etc.) thinks you are. How would my life change if I truly believed the Bible’s astounding words about God’s love for me, if I looked in the mirror and saw what God sees?
– Phillips Brooks
Change
God never forces men to act against their wills. By workings of outward providence or of inward grace, the Lord may change men’s minds, but He will not coerce a human being into thoughts, words or actions.
– Walter J. Chantry
Change
Change always starts in your mind. The way you think determines the way you feel, and the way you feel influences the way you act.
– Rick Warren
Character | Change
Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.
– Assorted Authors
Patience | Change
Human feelings change as the world changes. Their easy excitement can occasion a saint to lose his spiritual balance. Their constant disturbance can affect a believer’s peace in his spirit.
– Watchman Nee
Feelings | Change
It is not so true that “prayer changes things” as that prayer changes me and I change things. God has so constituted things that prayer on the basis of Redemption alters the way in which a man looks at things. Prayer is not a question of altering things externally, but of working wonders in a man’s disposition.
– Oswald Chambers
Prayer | Redemption | Change
When you live in the light of eternity, your values change.
– Rick Warren
Eternity | Change
All change comes from deepening your understanding of the salvation of Christ and living out the changes that understanding creates in your heart.
– Tim Keller
Change | Jesus
Our days are a kaleidoscope. Every instant a change takes place. New harmonies, new contrasts, new combinations of every sort. The most familiar people stand each moment in some new relation to each other, to their work, to surrounding objects.
– Henry Ward Beecher
Life | Change
Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.
– Harry Emerson Fosdick
Christians | Change | Endurance
The process of biblical change, explained in God’s Word, begins when you repent of your sin and believe in the Lord Jesus Christ. God has given you everything you need to make the changes in your life that will please Him and will lead to His blessings. As you continue to obey God’s Word, biblical change toward maturity will occur in your life until you see Jesus face to face.
– John C. Broger
Conversion | Change
Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can’t ride you unless your back is bent.
– Martin Luther King Jr.
Struggles | Change | Freedom
It is not well to make great changes in old age.
– Charles Spurgeon
Life | Age | Change
If we prepare ourselves for life’s inevitables, we will not be perplexed by life’s transitions.
– Jack Hyles
Change
Sociologists have a theory of the looking-glass self: you become what the most important person in your life (wife, father, boss, etc.) thinks you are. How would my life change if I truly believed the Bible’s astounding words about God’s love for me, if I looked in the mirror and saw what God sees?
– Philip Yancey
Change
In worship an increased power steals its way into the heart sanctuary, an increased compassion grows in the soul. To worship is to change.
– Richard J. Foster
Worship | Change
One thing about change hasn’t changed: it still fascinates some people, frightens others, and provides a good living for a prophetic minority.
– Warren Wiersbe
Reasoning | Change
We can only change the world if we have a heart for the world and deliver the message for the world. We can only change the world if we evangelize the world.
– Jerry Falwell
Evangelism | Change
We can create as magnificent an environment as we like, but unless we change the heart it’s all a waste of time.
– John Hagee
Character | Change | The Heart
From morning to night keep Jesus in thy heart, long for nothing, desire nothing, hope for nothing but to have all that is within thee changed into the spirit and temper of the holy Jesus.
– William Law
Jesus | Perseverance | Change
Not more certain is it that it is something outside the thermometer that produces a change in the thermometer, than it is something outside the soul of man that produces a moral change upon him. That he must be susceptible to that change, that he must be a party to it, goes without saying; but that neither his aptitude nor his will can produce it is equally certain.
– Henry Drummond
Change
To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
– John Henry Newman
Perseverance | Change
The change we have been striving after is not to be produced by any more striving after. It is to be wrought upon us by the molding of hands beyond our own. As the branch ascends, and the bud bursts, and the fruit reddens under the cooperation of influences from the outside air, so man rises to the higher stature under invisible pressures from without.
– Henry Drummond
Change
He who shall introduce into public affairs the principles of primitive Christianity will change the face of the world.
– Assorted Authors
Christianity | Change
The work of spirituality is to recognize where we are – the particular circumstances of our lives – to recognize grace and say, “Do you suppose God wants to be with me in a way that does not involve changing my spouse or getting rid of my spouse or my kids, but in changing me, and doing something in my life that maybe I could never experience without this pain and this suffering?
– Edmund Clowney
Suffering | Change
For you who wonder if you’ve played too long to change, take courage from Jacob’s legacy. No man is too bad for God. To transform a riverboat gambler into a man of faith would be no easy task. But for God, it was all in a night’s work.
– Max Lucado
Change