Quotes about Progression
remember this: there is no standing still in the Christian life. Either we are advancing toward salvation, or we are drifting away to destruction. Drifting is mortal danger.
— John Piper
I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.
— John Quincy Adams
What one generation tolerates, the next generation will embrace.
— John Wesley
as life is a story, so also is spiritual formation a story—a journey from earth to heaven.
— Scot McKnight
T[he rules of writing] require that the episodes in a tale shall be necessary parts of the tale, and shall help to develop it.
— Mark Twain
everyone desires to achieve old age, that is to say a condition in which one can say: Today is bad, and day by day it will get worse - until at last the worst of all arrives.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
It is a matter of common experience that things get more disordered and chaotic with time.
— Stephen Hawking
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.
— John Milton
If you read about the experiences of Christians who progressed in their relationship with the Lord Jesus beyond the norm, you will note the combination of a deep sense of sin and failure together with a deep appreciation for what God accomplished in Christ Jesus.
— Jerry Bridges
Oh yes, it exists, and the news media is always quick to highlight examples of anti-black racial hostility, but it is not the all-powerful, institutional beast so many say it is. But once people believe racism is their main problem, they become subject to that idea, and it prevents them from progressing.
— Jesse Lee Peterson
How did you go bankrupt? Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.
— Ernest Hemingway
But, then, that's the point. In leadership, success is succession.
— Andy Stanley