Quotes about Progress

The struggle of today, is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also.

To remain as I am is impossible; I must die or be better, it appears to me.

I never tire of reading Tom Paine .

The only difference between stepping stones and stumbling blocks is the way we address the rocks cast into our path.

Only as we mature does affection begin to depend on achievement.

We should not feel embarrassed by our difficulties, only by our failure to grow anything beautiful from them.

How did we ever get to believe that faithfulness involved simply retaining past forms and thinking? With the Creator God as our Father, how did we ever become the socially conservative stiflers of innovation that we are so notoriously perceived to be?

we will never be faithful in the biblical sense if we never move from home base.

Inclusive, good-quality education is a foundation for dynamic and equitable societies.

We learn from history that we don't learn from history!

Worrying was like sitting in a rocking chair—all that work and no progress.

The moment we begin to feel satisfied that we are making some progress along the road of sanctification, it is all the more necessary to repent and confess that all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags. Yet the Christian life is not one of gloom, but of ever increasing joy in the Lord. God alone knows our good works; all we know is His good work.