Quotes about Progress

I see an America in which Martin Luther King's dream is our national dream.

Change is hard at the beginning. Messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end.

Sometimes we disfigure ourselves by what we think about ourselves rather than by what we do to ourselves. Some people have been disfigured emotionally because of what others did to them when they were children. Sometimes our memory banks become warehouses of beliefs and feelings that cripple our progress.

It is imperative that the past of the pilgrims' progress be intentionally carried forward into the present as we work into our future. Without it we cannot know who we are, why we are here, or where we can go. Without a common past to live out of we become aimless and wandering individuals instead of a pilgrim people.

If I could see the abolition of slavery... I would sing my nunc dimittis with joy.

Perfection lies in fullness of journey. For this reason, never think you have arrived. Forget what lies behind you, reach out for what lies before you. Through the very change in which you lose what you have snatched up you will at last be transformed into what you crave for with such longing.

The Church and her exegesis of revelation progress through the ever-changing periods of world history. New aspects emerge, while others wane; efforts are made to compensate for one-sided emphases, but not rarely they are simply replaced with the opposite extremes. Today too, then, it is a duty to restate the principles in a new and timely way—while being as measured as possible—and in so doing to retrieve what is of permanent value.

You are not a prisoner of your past; you are the architect of your future.

The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know.

We must build a new world, a far better world -- one in which the eternal dignity of man is respected.

The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.

Socialism is the epithet they have hurled at every advance the people have made.