Quotes about Progression

It's all now you see. Yesterday won't be over until tomorrow and tomorrow began ten thousand years ago.

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.

Life is a disease; and the only diference between one another is the stage of the disease at which he lives.

We do not die wholly at our deaths: we have moldered away gradually long before. Faculty after faculty, interest after interest, attachment after attachment disappear: we are torn from ourselves while living.

Society can only pursue its normal course by means of a certain progression of changes.

I have to study politics and war so that my sons can study mathematics, commerce and agriculture, so their sons can study poetry, painting and music.

Success is not success without a successor.

To receive all of the promised blessings, we must accept the gospel in faith and in full. However, this certain faith does not usually come all at once. We learn spiritually line upon line and precept upon precept.

Individual freedom must be established before corporate freedom can be realized, but

Progress is not accomplished in one stage.

The book which the reader has under his eye at this moment is, from one end to the other, as a whole and in detail, whatever may be its intermittences, exceptions and faults, the march from evil to good, from the unjust to the just, from night to day, from appetite to conscience, from rottenness to life, from hell to heaven, from nothingness to God. Point of departure: matter; point of arrival: the soul. The hydra at the beginning, the angel at the end." Volume V, Book I, Chapter XX This