If change and growth are not programmed into your spirituality, if there are not serious warnings about the blinding nature of fear and fanaticism, your religion will always end up worshipping the status quo and protecting your present ego position and personal advantage as if it were God.
Change
John C. Maxwell
People change when they hurt enough they have to change, they learn enough they want to change, or they receive enough they are able to change.
Sally McClung
Everything has changed because of what we’re facing, but nothing has changed in terms of who He is in our midst. “He is the same yesterday, today, and forever.”
Bill Johnson
March 2, 2020
Sometimes we miss the chance to represent Him well in our conduct. We are then privileged to illustrate His goodness through our repentance.
Jack Frost
Change anything that is not comfortable with love.
Dorothy L. Sayers
Perhaps [the critics are right and] the drama is played out now and Jesus is safely dead and buried. Perhaps. It is ironical and entertaining to consider that at least once in the world’s history those words might have been said with complete conviction, and that was on the eve of the Resurrection.
Henry Cloud
We change our behaviour when the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the pain of changing. Consequences give us the pain that motivates us to change.
Gilbert Keith G. K. Chesterton
The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.”
Henri J. M. Nouwen
The appearance of Jesus in our midst has made it undeniably clear that changing the human heart and changing human society are not separate tasks, but are as interconnected as the two beams of the cross.
Paul Tripp
This is the work of the kingdom of God: people in the hands of the Redeemer, daily functioning as his tools of lasting change.