Genuine Change Quotes

Don't fool people to think you are better than who you are. Instead of trying to act changed, pray that you will be changed.

More than my questions about the efficacy of social actions were my questions about my own motives. Do i want social justice for the oppressed or do i jusy want to be known as a socially active person? I spend 95 percent of my time thinking about myself anyway. I dont have to watch the evening news to see the world is bad, i only have to look at myself. I am not brow beating here, i am only saying that true charge , true living giving, God honoring change would have to start with the individual. I was the very problem i had been protesting. I wanted to make a sign that read “I am the problem

We need to confront our real problems, not indulge in false solutions that make them worse.

I think that people need to have the courage of their convictions and not be trying to fool people into thinking that they've changed overnight.

Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.

Real change happens when you feel genuinely inspired, turned on by possibility and unwilling to settle for anything less.

We will as soon as possible reexamine our laws and policies and eliminate all obstacles to genuine investment.

Force may make hypocrites, but it can never make converts.

Through constant familiarity, we can definitely establish new behavior patterns, using our tendency to form habits to our advantage. If we make a steady effort, I think we can overcome any form of negative conditioning and make positive changes in our lives. But we need to remember that genuine change doesn't happen overnight.

Another proof of the conquest of a soul for Christ will be found in a real change of life. If the man does not live differently from what he did before, both at home and abroad, his repentance needs to be repented of and his conversion is a fiction

The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. They may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game, but they will never allow us to bring about genuine change.