Quotes about Progress

In matters that are so obscure and far beyond our vision, we find in Holy Scripture passages which can be interpreted in very different ways without prejudice to the faith we have received. In such cases, we should not rush in headlong and so firmly take our stand on one side that, if further progress in the search for truth justly undermines this position, we too fall with it.

The education of the human race, represented by the people of God, has advanced, like that of an individual, through certain epochs, or, as it were, ages, so that it might gradually rise from earthly to heavenly things, and from the visible to the invisible.

Passing hence from infancy, I came to boyhood, or rather it came to me, displacing infancy. Nor did that depart,—(for whither went it?)—and yet it was no more.

We make a ladder of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.

Go forth on your path, as it exists only through your walking.

You wish to be great, begin from the least. You are thinking to construct some mighty fabric in height; first think of the foundation of humility. And how great soever a mass of building one may wish and design to place above it, the greater the building is to be, the deeper does he dig his foundation.

True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.

First do the necessary, then do the feasible, then you will be able to achieve the impossible.

He who goes about to reform the world must begin with himself, or he loses his labor.

Good, better, best, never let it rest 'til the good is the better, and the better is the best

To reach something good, it is useful to have gone astray.

Truth travels slowly, but it will reach even you in time.