Quotes about Adaptation

Do today what will profit you tomorrow. Avoid forever what did not profit you yesterday.

Today's caterpillars are tomorrow's butterflies.

You cannot carry your past without dropping your future.

Your past must die for your future to live.

Education helps one case cease being intimidated by strange situations.

I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.

Our moral and cultural traditions have not kept pace with our economic possibilities. We try to match new demands with a spiritual life not designed for them.

increasingly short periods of time—first 1,200 years, then less than 600 years, then less than 125 years, then 50 years.

I've met people in the last year or two who have stopped going to their local church because people have started singing new songs and dancing in the aisles. And I've met others who have started going for precisely the same reason. It's time to give ourselves a shake--to recognize that different people need different kinds of help at different stages of their lives--and get on with it.

After defending the value of prepared prayers, the author cautions against over-reliance on them. Just as David could not fight in the armor of King Saul, we are called to fight in the way God has equipped us uniquely.

From the beginning no serious Christian has been able to say 'This is my culture, so I must adapt the gospel to fit within it', just as no serious Christian has been able to say 'This is my surrounding culture, so I must oppose it tooth and nail'. Christians are neither chameleons, changing colour to suit their surroundings, nor rhinoceroses, ready to charge at anything in sight.

One of the great New Testament words is Now. That was then, this is now.