Quotes about Continuity

ONCE YOU ARRIVE AT THE TOP, YOU STILL NEED TO KEEP DOING THE THING THAT GOT YOU THERE IN THE FIRST PLACE!

The dominant ideology of our culture is committed to continuity and success and to the avoidance of pain, hurt, and loss. The dominant culture is also resistant to genuine newness and real surprise. It is curious but true, that surprise is as unwelcome as is loss. And our culture is organized to prevent the experience of both.

Infinite players die. Since the boundaries of death are always part of the play, the infinite player does not die at the end of the play, but in the course of play.

Infinite players regard their wins and losses in whatever finite games they play as but moments in continuing play.

Any attempt to vary from the past in such a way as to cut the past off, causing it to be forgotten, has little cultural importance.

Infinite players cannot say how much they have completed in their work or love or quarreling, but only that much remains incomplete in it. They are not concerned to determine when it is over, but only what comes of it.

It's very, very clear that you cannot move to the next phase unless the former one has been fully accomplished.

Theology must have the character of a living procession.

When a man of God dies, nothing of God dies.

I chatter chatter as I flow To join the brimming river For men may come and men may go But I go on forever.

The past is never dead. It's not even past.

The fact is, almost every move of God is, in some ways, profoundly different from the previous ways that He has moved.