Quotes about Progress

A church that does not keep step with modern scientific knowledge is doomed.

He could hardly recognize it as something that had grown out of what he had begun.

Indeed, not just the problems but the loud cry "Reform!" had been heard here and there for centuries before Luther.

What Wilberforce vanquished was something even worse than slavery, something that was much more fundamental and can hardly be seen from where we stand today: he vanquished the very mind-set that made slavery acceptable and allowed it to survive and thrive for millennia.

Once this idea was loosed upon the world, the world changed.

He knew that, if left to do as he liked, he might fritter away the rest of his life, just as he'd frittered away so many years already. He knew that he didn't want to go back to where he had been before, and he would take whatever steps were necessary to ensure that he continued on the new path he was now on.

When we are confronted by failure and mistakes, we can leave them behind and go on with our lives.

The ordinary American - as far as I can tell - knows so much less than he did fifty years ago and has such poor work habits compared with fifty years ago that the average multiplicand of knowledge/capabilities is a much smaller number than it was in 1961.

Change is inevitable. In a progressive country change is constant.

The canter is a cure for every evil.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Give up the old so God can perform the new in your life.