Al’s Quotes and Quips for July

This month’s list of quotes and quips are deal with the subject of “change.”

• “Change is inevitable—except from a vending machine.” (Robert C. Gallagher) [NOTE: Also, God never changes (Mal. 3:6; Heb. 13:8). AH]
• “Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.” (Arnold Bennett)
• “Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.” (Bertolt Brecht)
• “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
• “Change is such hard work.” (Billy Crystal)
• “Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.”
• “The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts his sails.” (William Arthur Ward)
• “Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.” (James Baldwin)
• “All some people need to make them happy is a change — and most of the time that’s all a baby needs.”
• “If we want something to get better, something needs to change. Nothing is improved without change.”
• “Prayer changes things and prayer changes the one who prays.”

The greatest change in my life took place in 1967 when I became a Christian (see 2 Corinthians 5:17). As the song goes: “What a wonderful change in my life has been wrought, Since Jesus came into my heart.”

Until next month, may all the changes in your life be for the better!