Quotes About Expansion

Relationships serve as a gateway to expansion, when there is no longer expansion, there is no longer a relationship.

There was nothing left for us to do but to take them all, and to educate the Filipinos, and uplift and civilize and Christianize them, and by God's grace do the very best we could for them, as our fellowmen for whom Christ also died.

The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.

The incessant concentration of thought upon one subject, however interesting, tethers a man's mind in a narrow field.

Glory is like a circle in the water,Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself,Till by broad spreading it disperse to nought.

Now my soul hath elbow-room.

Even the upper end of the river believes in the ocean.

By 1300, the size of the tea-drinking elite had expanded somewhat, but these essential characteristics remained the same. Indeed, tea retained its role in gift giving and as a medicine into the present.

Tennessee to places like Corinth, Nashville, and even Shiloh, which at that point he'd never heard of.

In typology, this means that after all of the experiences of affliction, the church life will be expanded and become spacious. Then we shall have a richer seed and a wider, broader church life. The seed within us will be richer, and the land without us will be broader.

The unlimited Christ gives the immeasurable Spirit in order to produce a universal increase.

I felt an urge to conquer this new village.

explanation. Why didn't they accumulate a much larger population?

This, I thought, is why we have comfort zones, because they are comfortable. What can possibly be gained by leaving them?

Feelings sometimes grow too big to be kept within walls.

Another way to comprehend it is this: From the time of our beginning as a species (about 200,000 years ago) until the year 1804, human population rose to a billion; between 1804 and 1927, it rose by another billion; we reached 3 billion in 1960; and each net addition of a billion people, since then, has taken only about thirteen years. In October 2011, we came to the 7-billion mark

One of the difficulties of stretching ourselves is that we tend to see ourselves as our limitations, not as our potential. We're lost in our own world.

The best people in life make the world a bigger place, then help you grow to fit it.

Between 1800 and 1914 the proportion of the earth's surface occupied by Europeans, whether in colonies or in former colonies, rose from 35 to 84.4 per cent.14

American did not conquer the West through superior technology, nor did it demonstrate the advantages of democracy. American "won" the West by blood, brutality and terror.

A fascinating index of the system's success is the spread of the turkey vulture, which had previously been confined to the southeastern states. The interstate highways functioned as a kind of moving buffet for them; as they followed the long lines of roadkill north and west over the next two decades, they came to inhabit every part of the country.

wound down in 1842 at a cost of nearly $60 million

If your views don't change over time it means you're fixated on an hypnotic landscape. Move on. There is more to see.

You cannot grow and expand your capabilities to their limits without running the risk of failure. And failure can provide invaluable lessons.