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“A man should live his life a certain way not because of some divine authority, but because of a personal moral obligation to himself and others.”
― Jodi Picoult

“The most beautiful thing in the world is a heart that is changing.”
― Anasazi Foundation, The Seven Paths: Changing One's Way of Walking in the World

“...when your heart changes, you change, and you have to make new plans.”
― Katherine Hannigan, Ida B. . . and Her Plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster, and (Possibly) Save the World

“Trying to change someone only makes them cling to their existing behavior with brutish, primal force.”
― Brian D'Ambrosio, Fresh Oil and Loose Gravel: Road Poetry by Brian D'Ambrosio 1998-2008

“When it comes to seeking a change of heart, our starting place must include our present situation, with the people we live with right here and now. It is with these very people that we must learn to forgo all taking of offense.”
― C. Terry Warner, Bonds That Make Us Free: Healing Our Relationship, Coming to Ourselves

“There is no better means of promoting another person's change of heart than allowing our own heart to be changed.”
― C. Terry Warner

“People don't change, they come closer and closer to who they really are.”
― Faraaz Kazi

“Nobody really cares if you��re miserable, so you might as well be happy, and make the most of where you are”
― Germany Kent

“Being stuck serves a spiritual purpose. It's a bountiful harvest for transformation to occur. It tells us that a change is needed. More than any type of outward change, what's really being asked of us is an inner change. It could be a change of heart, change of priorities, a change of beliefs, or even a change of perspective.”
― Dana Arcuri, Reinventing You: Simple Steps to Transform Your Body, Mind, & Spirit

“So you tell me... did this execution really make you feel safer? Did it bring us all closer together? Or did it drive us further apart?”
― Jodi Picoult

“Love is divine act that can transform and bring a change of heart.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Don't believe the dark whisperings that invite you to walk backward. At any time in your life, you have the power to turn forward.”
― Anasazi Foundation, The Seven Paths: Changing One's Way of Walking in the World

“Never give up your wife, husband, children and families.
Believe that people can change.
Give others opportunity to change.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“It was like a slap. I dont remember her being mean before that. It made Miranda smile. The smile that unlocked something in Beth like a key”
― Karen Foxlee, The Anatomy of Wings

“I know that people who don't believe in God might scoff at the idea that the creator of the universe has the time or inclination to try incessantly (and with not much long-term success) to change my heart. I get it. I just have no other explanation.”
― Nadia Bolz-Weber, Pastrix: The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner & Saint

“Let's start a revolution, a revolution with no gun, but words and action to inspire the next generation. The truth should make us better human beings, it shouldn't create enemies out of ignorance. "IGNORANCE" got Liberia way, way back, because some of us were blind back then and failed to see the clear picture before. Before it was the Americo VS the Native. Today is corrupt educated or not so educated Liberian brothers and sisters against those people who they call illiterate. STAND FOR CHANGE AND SAY NO! ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!”
― Henry Johnson Jr

“In Fez Yasmin had another dream. ?I saw myself in a shower. Water poured over me, washing and purifying me and I was told ?All your sins have been washed away by that water. You��ve been cleansed. Your sins have been washed away and you��re blessed.�� ?I feel that Allah has been knocking on my door for some time now, perhaps all my life. ?But you just haven��t recognized Me��, He says, ?You haven��t recognized Me. You keep waiting but I have been there all along.���� (p.195)”
― Michael Sugich, Hearts Turn: Sinners, Seekers, Saints and the Road to Redemption

“But the odds against me were getting higher each day. I, who was my own worst enemy, needed a best friend. I thought booze was my friend. I did not know I was in a fight��not just with my lawyers, not just with my husband, but also with my disease. I didn��t know I could not win this one on my own, that it would take years, and a change of mind and heart, to win the battle with an opponent I could not even see.”
― Judy Collins, Sweet Judy Blue Eyes: My Life in Music

“The miracle is a man can have a change of heart at any moment.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“But then Yasmin changed her mind and hopped a flight to Fez. ?I knew I had to go. I didn��t know why but I had to go. And I was really quite scared because I was going alone and I��d never been to Morocco. I didn��t know anyone. I traveled at night so I call it my ?isra��, my Night Journey. I landed late. I was really scared but I prayed to Allah, ?I trust in You to look after me and protect me. I��m here for whatever the purpose You��ve planned for me. (p. 193)”
― Michael Sugich, Hearts Turn: Sinners, Seekers, Saints and the Road to Redemption

“So I became certain that I was on the brink of a crumbling bank and already on the verge of falling into the Fire, unless I set about mending my ways�� Mundane desires began tugging me with their chains to remain as I was, while the herald of faith was crying out: ?Away! Up and away! Only a little is left of your life, and a long journey lies before you! All the theory and practice in which you are engrossed is eyeservice and fakery! If you do not prepare now for the Afterlife, when will you do so? And if you do not sever these attachments now, then when will you sever them? (al-Ghazali)”
― R.J. McCarthy, Deliverance from Error: Five Key Texts Including His Spiritual Autobiography, al-Munqidh min al-Dalal

“When I read al-Ghazali, I thought, ?Oh my God, this is true��. Al Ghazali wrote: ?I am on a crumbling bank. My soul is crying ?Up, up and away. If not now, when?�� I was about twenty-three years old and I thought, ?My God, I am on a crumbling bank! If I don��t do it �C up, up and away �C I��ve blown it! I knew that if I didn��t do it now, I would have blown it.�� Gray had been looking for a spiritual path all along and was drawn to Sufism. She embraced the religion of Islam and took the name Aisha. (p. 213)”
― Michael Sugich, Hearts Turn: Sinners, Seekers, Saints and the Road to Redemption

“We are not trying to abide the darkness. We are choosing to sit where it is sunny and warm”
― Donna Goddard, Waldmeer

“Without a change of heart, there is no change in character.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Complete faith in Christ changes the heart.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“I never really saw the celerity of your heart
When steadily fighting off the Kierkegaardian part
I listened to Plutarch
While you threw out something of ours
As if humans are shoes you merely use in certain hours”
― Criss Jami

“Because they can easily change their mind, it might be correct to say that humans are brutal creatures.”
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“Only Christ can change your heart.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Hating allows us to avoid the horrible risk of discovering that we might actually be able to love the thing that we purport to hate.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“A change of heart reduces stress.”
― Bert McCoy, A Lil' Bert Can't Hurt: Words and Wisdom for Daily Life