Quotes about Progress

The spiritual disciplines are art forms. Your first prayer will probably look like a kindergartener's painting. Of course, God still puts it on His refrigerator! But if you keep practicing prayer, your faith will become fluent. Living a Spirit-led life is a steep learning curve. It takes time—and by time, I mean decades, not days. You have to grow in the spiritual disciplines little by little. That's how you go from strength to strength. You keep benchmarking

If you take thirty linear steps, you're ninety feet from where you started. But if you take thirty exponential steps, you've circled the earth twenty-six times!2 Faith isn't linear. Faith is exponential.

A preacher can always improve, no matter how gifted he is.

May John Newton's prayer for himself be our prayer to God for our churches: "I am not what I ought to be. I am not what I wish to be. I am not what I hope to be. Yet I can truly say, I am not what I once was. By the grace of God I am what I am.

Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time.

School is where you go between when your parents can't take you and industry can't take you.

The future depends on what you do today.

I'm more interested in the future than in the past, because the future is where I intend to live.

It isn't the past which holds us back, it's the future; and how we undermine it, today.

If you want to change the future, then you are going to have to trouble the present.

We did not come to fear the future. We came here to shape it.