Change Of Heart Quotes:

Regeneration can come only through a change of heart in the individual.

- Henry Williamson

source: Henry Williamson (1966). “A solitary war”

topic: Heart, Individual, Change Of Heart

Change your life by changing your thoughts.

- Paramahansa Yogananda

topic: Time And Change, Changing Your Life, Change Of Heart, Changing Attitude, Positive Focus

The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.

- M. Scott Peck

topic: Change, Integrity, Humble, Struggle Between Good And Evil, Battle Between Good And Evil

You change your life by changing your heart.

- Max Lucado

topic: Inspirational, Change, Uplifting, Time And Change, Spiritual Transformation

Living a spiritual life requires a change of heart, a conversion. Such a conversion may be marked by a sudden inner change, or it can take place through a long, quiet process of transformation. But it always involves an inner experience of oneness.

- Henri Nouwen

topic: Spiritual, Heart, Oneness, Conversion, Change Of Heart

You're just a prayer away from a change of heart.

- Henry R Brandt

topic: Life, Prayer, Heart, Change Of Heart

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

- Leo Tolstoy

source: "The Artist's Way at Work: Riding the Dragon". Book by Mark A. Bryan with Julia Cameron and Catherine A. Allen, p. 160, 1999.

topic: Inspirational, Change, Happiness, Making A Difference In The World, Times Have Changed

'One new perception, one fresh thought, one act of surrender, one change of heart, one leap of faith, can change your life forever.'

- Robert Holden

source: Robert Holden (2006). “Shift Happens!: Powerful Ways to Transform Your Life”

topic: Heart, Forever, Perception, Change Of Heart

Jesus does not respond to our worry-filled way of living by saying that we should not be so busy with worldly affairs. He does not try to pull us away from the many events, activities, and people that make up our lives. . . . He asks us to shift the point of gravity, to relocate the center of our attention, to change our priorities. Jesus does not speak about a change of activities, a change in contacts, or even a change of pace. He speaks about a change of heart.

- Henri Nouwen

topic: Jesus, Heart, Worry, Change Of Heart

We should not think of conversion as the acceptance of a particular creed, but as a change of heart.

- Helen Keller

topic: Heart, Acceptance, Thinking, Conversion, Change Of Heart

When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.

- Viktor E. Frankl

source: Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.113, Beacon Press

topic: Change, Positive, Inspiring, Mans Search For Meaning, Times Have Changed

True repentance involves a change of heart and not just a change of behavior.

- Ezra Taft Benson

source: Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

topic: Heart, Behavior, Repentance, True Repentance, Change Of Heart

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference. Living one day at a time; Enjoying one moment at a time; Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace; Taking, as He did, this sinful world as it is, not as I would have it; Trusting that He will make all things right if I surrender to His Will; That I may be reasonably happy in this life and supremely happy with Him Forever in the next. Amen.

- Reinhold Niebuhr

topic: Inspirational, Courage, Differences, Prayer Changes Things, Courage To Change

Build what you want to see in the world.

- Jack Dorsey

topic: World, Want, What You Want, Social Responsibility, Managing Change

Nothing comes of severity if there be no leanings towards a change of heart. And if there be natural leanings towards a change of heart, what need for severity?

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

topic: Heart, Needs, Natural, Change Of Heart, Severity

A change of heart or of values without a practice is only another pointless luxury of a passively consumptive way of life.

- Wendell Berry

source: Wendell Berry (2003). “The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry”, p.250, Counterpoint

topic: Heart, Practice, Luxury, Change Of Heart

Humility recognizes that no one can change someone else, but with faith, effort, and the help of God, we can undergo our own mighty change of heart.

- L. Whitney Clayton

topic: Heart, Humility, Effort, Eternal Marriage, Vindication

No amount of outer technology, no amount of computers and biotechnology and nanotechnology is going to stop the continuation of warfare and racism and environmental destruction. What's called for on the Earth at this time is really a change of heart ... the question is really not the future of humanity, but the presence of eternity.

- Jack Kornfield

topic: Heart, Technology, Racism, Environmental Destruction, Future Of Humanity

Be the compromise you want to see in the world.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Change, Social Responsibility, Managing Change

Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have.

- Margaret Mead

topic: Inspirational, Change, Kindness, Some People Never Change, Embrace Change

Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Important Work, Social Good

Be ashamed when you sin, don't be ashamed when you repent [To repent means to have a change of heart and mind. It is not simply a feeling of sorrow ,but a psycho/spiritual growth away from evil/death and a turning to God/life]. Sin is the wound, repentance is the medicine. Sin is followed by shame; repentance is followed by boldness [ Boldness means to beg God for undeserved mercy]. Satan has overturned this order and given boldness to sin and shame to repentance.

- Saint John Chrysostom

topic: Love, Spiritual, Mean, Spiritual Growth, Change Of Heart

To heal will require real effort, and a change of heart, from all of us. To heal means that we will begin to look upon one another with respect and tolerance instead of prejudice, distrust and hatred. We will have to teach our children-as well as ourselves-to love the diversity of humanity....We can do it. Yes, you and I and all of us together. Now is the time. Now is the only possible time. Let the Great Healing begin.

- Leonard Peltier

topic: Children, Real, Healing, Heal The World, Cultural Diversity

It will require more than a few hours of fasting and prayer to cast out such demons as selfishness, worldliness, and unbelief. Repentance, to be of any avail, must work a change of heart and of conduct.

- Theodore L. Cuyler

source: "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 507), 1895.

topic: Prayer, Heart, Selfishness, Worldliness, Change Of Heart

Becoming people of integrity and honesty does not occur quickly or all at once, nor is it merely a matter of greater personal discipline. It is a change of disposition, a change of heart. And this gradual change of heart is one that the Lord accomplishes within us, through the power of His Spirit, in a line-upon-line fashion.

- David A. Bednar

topic: Fashion, Honesty, Integrity, Gradual Change, Change Of Heart

We travel as seekers after answers we cannot find at home

- Phil Cousineau

topic: Home, Answers, Change Of Heart

[Mrs. Teasdale]: He's had a change of heart. [Groucho]: A lot of good that'll do him. He's still got the same face.

- Groucho Marx

source: Groucho Marx (2000). “The Essential Groucho: Writings By, For, and about Groucho Marx”, Vintage

topic: Funny, Crazy, Silly, Same Face, Change Of Heart

I am no longer amazed by how quickly a man will justify his change of heart when a spear is leveled his way.

- R. A. Salvatore

topic: Heart, Men, Way, Change Of Heart

Are we Christians in this country really changing our hearts, or do we just believe in a change of heart...?

- Johann Baptist Metz

topic: Christian, Country, Attitude, Just Believe, Change Of Heart

The Good News is that God's mercy and forgiveness extend to those who repent. Mercy does not mean approving of something that is sinful, but does absolve the wrongdoer after a change of heart takes place in the sinner through the gift of God's grace.

- Thomas J. Paprocki

topic: Heart, Mean, Grace, Mercy And Forgiveness, Approving

Be the change you want to see.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Change, Indian Independence Day, Some Nice

We have to create conditions where people feel safe to feel and to care. That goes against a lot of our programming about how to make something change in the world. Sometimes you can pressure people into changing, you can force them, but the powers-that-be have more force than we do. I don't think we're going to win in a contest of force. I think we need to induce a change of heart. The narrative of "us versus them" is ultimately part of the problem. Traditional activism, which is about overcoming the latest bad guy, isn't deep enough. It just brings us another version of the same.

- Charles Eisenstein

source: Source: www.mindfulnessbell.org

topic: Heart, Winning, Thinking, Change Of Heart

It is one thing to see the kingdom of God, and another thing to enter into it. We must have a change of heart to see the kingdom of God, and subscribe the articles of adoption to enter therein.

- Joseph Smith, Jr.

topic: Heart, Adoption, Kingdoms, Change Of Heart

A change of heart is the essence of all other change, and it has brought about me a reeducation of the mind.

- Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence, Baroness Pethick-Lawrence

topic: Heart, Essence, Mind, Change Of Heart

The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Change, Heart, Democracy, Abolition, Change Of Heart

The only way to get change is not through the courts or — heaven forbid — the politicians, but through a change of human consciousness and through a change of heart. Only through the arts — music, poetry, dance, painting, writing — "can we really reach each other,

- Leslie Marmon Silko

topic: Art, Writing, Heaven, Art Music, Change Of Heart

For some days I quietly worked out in my own mind the metaphysics of Cosmic Unity. The more I thought about it, the more convinced I became that it was the living truth. It was logically incontrovertible. It provided for the first time a firm foundation for ethics. It offered mankind the radical change of heart and mind that was our only hope of peace at a time of desperate danger. Only one small problem remained. I must find a way to convert the world to my way of thinking.

- Freeman Dyson

topic: Heart, Thinking, Small Problems, Firm Foundation, Change Of Heart

Think in the name of Almighty God. We must first have a worldwide awakening of the public conscience, a spiritual revival, a moral regeneration, before there can be permanent peace and real economic recovery. To this end we do not need new laws, but a new spirit; we do not need a change of government, but a change of the human heart. There can be no peace, there will be no recovery without it. Therefore, with a change of heart, let's all make a new start.

- William J. H. Boetcker

topic: God, Spiritual, Real, Economic Recovery, Change Of Heart

Be the trouble you want to see in the world.

- Joey Comeau

source: "A Softer World". Webcomic by Joey Comeau,

topic: World, Want, Trouble, Social Responsibility, Managing Change

We must do all in our power to educate the public, for I believe that in the end only a change of heart is really effective.

- Ruth Harrison

topic: Believe, Heart, Ends, Change Of Heart

Be the change you want to see in your networks

- James H. Fowler

topic: Want, Managing Change, Indian Independence Day, Some Nice, Live Life To Its Fullest

If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

- Woodrow Wilson

source: Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.135, The Minerva Group, Inc.

topic: Change, Clever, Christian Inspirational, Managing Change, Inspirational Presidential

The first kiss ideally signals rapture, exchange of hearts, and imminent marriage. Otherwise it is a kiss that lies. All very crude and nonsensical, and yet it is the staple myth of hundreds of comics called 'Sweethearts,' 'Romantic Secrets' and so forth. The state induced by the kiss is actually self-induced, of course, for few lips are so gifted with electric and psychedelic possibilities.

- Germaine Greer

topic: Lying, Heart, Kissing, Change Of Heart

We value the devotedness of friendship rather as an oblation to vanity than as a free interchange of hearts; an endearing contract of sympathy, mutual forbearance, and respect!

- Jane Porter

topic: Friendship, Heart, Vanity, Interchange, Change Of Heart

That’s what religion does. It points a finger. It causes wars. It breaks apart countries. It’s a petri dish for stereotypes to grow in. Religion’s not about being holy...Just holier-than-thous.

- Jodi Picoult

topic: Country, War, Doe, Change Of Heart

Intellectuals and celebrities venerated monsters like Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Castro, & Ho Chi Minh. The New Left of the 1960s didn't have a change of heart, just a change of icons from Stalin to third world tyrants. The homicidal and sadistic Che Guevara is still held up as a hero.

- Jamie Glazov

topic: Hero, Heart, Tyrants, Castro, Change Of Heart

I could never be a politician. But as uncomfortable as I would be doing so, I have no problem with Obama's long-planned 'change of heart.' This dude's made huge, measurable strides for gay rights, and if being coy about his plans for gay marriage for a few years was needed to get him elected, then so be it. LGBT persons will be better off, and federal same-sex marriage recognition will come sooner because of it.

- Barack Obama

topic: Sex, Heart, Gay, Change Of Heart

There is as much need for a change of heart among the Hindus and Mussalmans as there is among the British, before a proper settlement is arrived at.

- Mahatma Gandhi

source: Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

topic: Heart, Needs, Language, Change Of Heart

As soon as the Gospels were written, speech without experience began to dabble with the new facts proposed by the existence of the Church. People tried to think the new life without being touched by it first in some form of call, listening, passion or change of heart.

- Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

source: Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy (1978). “The Fruit of Lips: Of Why Four Gospels?”, p.85, Wipf and Stock Publishers

topic: Passion, Heart, Thinking, Change Of Heart