Quotes about Development

We do not want to be beginners. But let us be convinced of the fact that we will never be anything else but beginners, all our life!

Whatever you do repeatedly," he writes, "has the power to shape you, has the power to make you over into a different person— even if you're not totally engaged' in every minute!

Progress means getting nearer to the place you want to be. And if you have taken a wrong turning, then to go forward does not get you any nearer. If you are on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; and in that case the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive man.

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth.

All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort and effort means work.

Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.

The forlorn state of consciousness in our world is due primarily to loss of instinct, and the reason for this lies in the development of the human mind over the past aeon. The more power man had over nature, the more his knowledge and skill went to his head, and the deeper became his contempt for the merely natural and accidental, for all irrational data—including the objective psyche, which is everything that consciousness is not.

And every philosophy of history bears in itself the seed of a theology.

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

Consequently, if the church is going to leave a permanent mark on the community through a growing body of changed lives, it must constantly expand its leadership capacity, which entails both an increased number of leaders and an enhanced quality of leaders.

Are you satisfied with the nature of your church today but simply want your church to be bigger?