Quotes about Progress
Grace must and will edge you forward. "God has no grandchildren. God only has children," as some have said. Each generation has to make its own discoveries of Spirit for itself.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
Three steps forward, two steps back.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
Going somewhere good means having to go through and with the bad, and being unable to hold ourselves above it or apart from it.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
If you realize that there is a further journey, you might do the warm-up act quite differently, which would better prepare you for what follows.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
The end is already planted in us at the beginning, and it gnaws away at us until we get there freely and consciously.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
Without an evolutionary worldview, Christianity does not really understand, much less foster, growth or change. Nor does it know how to respect and support where history is heading.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
Eric Hoffer, the street philosopher, put it this way: "In times of great change [which is always], learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped for a world that no longer exists.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
We are driven, kicking and screaming, toward ever higher levels of union and ability to include (to forgive others for being "other"), it seems to me. "Everything that rises must converge," as Teilhard de Chardin put it.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
Yearning for a new way will not produce it. Only ending the old way can do that.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
See a flame in a spark, a tree in a seed. See great things in little beginnings.
- Richard Sibbes
So principle number one is 'seek first the kingdom' with every choice. The second is 'forgetting what lies behind, press on toward the mark of the high calling of God." These two will help us make the right choices
- Rick Joyner
The truth is, almost everything we do is done poorly when we first start doing it — that's how we learn.
- Rick Warren