Quotes about "Change & Growth"

There is nothing respecting which a man may be so long unconscious as of the extent and strength of his prejudices. ”

I've been blessed with enough wealth that I can make a film myself up to a certain budget. So one way I thought I would reinvent myself was just to make these very small, personal films that I've financed myself. ”

Everything I do is personal. I have never made a movie that didn't have very strong personal resonance. ”

Sometimes you develop a passion for something because of some personal experience. ”

The shelves of many evangelicals are full of books that point out the flaws in evolution, discuss it only as a theory, and almost imply that there's a conspiracy here to avoid the fact that evolution is actually flawed. All of those books, unfortunately, are based upon conclusions that no reasonable biologist would now accept. ”

If I'm walking down the riverbank, and a man is drowning, even if I don't know how to swim very well, I feel this urge that the right thing to do is to try to save that person. Evolution would tell me exactly the opposite: preserve your DNA. Who cares about the guy who's drowning? ”

Churches we build only by our own efforts and not in the strength of the Spirit will quickly collapse when we don't push and prod people along. ”

Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use. ”

That is one of the reasons I write: to feel the Presence of God and know He is speaking to me in a very personal way, instructing me, correcting me, redirecting me. ”

Surely it is time to examine into the meaning of words and the nature of things, and to arrive at simple facts, not received upon the dictum of learned authorities, but upon attentive personal observation of what is passing around us. ”