Quotes about Progression

Truth is compared in Scripture to a streaming fountain; if her waters flow not in perpetual progression, they sicken into a muddy pool of conformity and tradition.

Now that you've established the first three sections as a positive, negative, and then positive movement in the story, your customers are likely hooked.

How did you go bankrupt? Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.

that habituation is a slow, imperceptible sinking, whose point of no return is not clearly marked.

For they were arranged in three stories, and unlike the courts, they had no pillars. So the upper chambers were set back further than the lower and middle floors.

There is no success without a successor.

And for Christians, the gospel has always been the lens through which Israel's stories are read—which means, for Christians, Jesus, not the Bible, has the final word. The story of God's people has moved on, and so must we.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

The Spirit's work in the renewal of things proceeds according to a fixed, systematic method, in certain distinct stages.

The side rooms surrounding the temple widened at each successive level, because the structure surrounding the temple ascended by stages corresponding to the narrowing of the temple wall as it rose upward. And so a stairway went up from the lowest story to the highest, through the middle one.

as life is a story, so also is spiritual formation a story—a journey from earth to heaven.

The spiritual, however, was not first, but the natural, and then the spiritual.