Quotes about Transition

A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.

Beware of harking back to what you were once when God wants you to be something you have never been. "If any man will do . . . , he shall know .

If you yourself do not cut the lines that tie you to the dock, God will have to use a storm to sever them and to send you out to sea.

If you do not cut the moorings, God will have to break them by a storm and send you out.

When "important" individuals go away we are sad, until we see that they are meant to go, so that only one thing is left for us to do—to look into the face of God for ourselves.

Everything we say and do, everything we commit ourselves to, and every situation, location, and relationship we experience is experienced between the already and the not yet. You will never understand the things you face every day until you understand that you live in the middle. Everything in your life is shaped by what the middle is like.

Every year thousands of supposedly Christian young people go off to residential universities and forsake the faith. I would propose to you that they are not forsaking the faith at all. They never had it in the first place. They grew up under a system of control that forced the faith upon them, but when they get to college and the system vanishes, their true hearts reveal themselves.

It's important for nerds to realize, too, that school is not life. School is a strange, artificial thing, half sterile and half feral. It's all-encompassing, like life, but it isn't the real thing. It's only temporary, and if you look, you can see beyond it even while you're still in it.

When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.

At times there is a crushing before a crowning.

When you are on the edge of your purpose, the ledge upon which you stand might begin to shake.

I need a place to let go and fall back from my familiar patterns and trust God to catch me.