Quotes About Progress

Your only stumbling block is the man in the mirror"

the most chronic problem facing churches and Christians is the lack of consistent spiritual growth and progress in discipleship.

Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own. Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it on my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. (Phil. 3:12–14)

It is normal for Christians to grow, to work for growth, and to expect increasing spiritual maturity.

Many of our own people here in this country do not ask about computers, telephones and television sets. They ask - when will we get a road to our village.

As a consequence of the victories we have registered during our first ten years of freedom, we have laid a firm foundation for the new advances we must and will make during the next decade.

Using time, pressure and patience, the universe gradually changes caterpillars into butterflies, sand into pearls, and coal into diamonds. You're being worked on too, so hang in there. Just because something isn't apparent right now, doesn't mean it isn't happening. It's not until the end do you realize, sometimes your biggest blessings were disguised by pain and suffering. They were not placed there to break you, but to make you.

Life goes on, brah!

Be comfortable being uncomfortable

Shit getting realer and realer everyday.

But that is the strange thing about the future. Nothing ages faster than yesterday's dreams of tomorrow.

A feverish display of over-zeal, At the first outset, is an obstacle To all success; water, however cold, Will penetrate the ground by slow degrees.

By the fall of water-drops the pot is filled: such is the increase of riches, of knowledge, and of virtue.

Let this be an example for the acquisition of all knowledge, virtue, and riches. By the fall of drops of water, by degrees, a pot is filled.

I hope that something better comes along.

Difficulties in life are opportunities to better things; they are stepping stones to greater experience. Perhaps someday you will be thankful for some temporary failure in a particular direction, When one door closes, another always opens

A society can never be free without women's liberation

[Y]our life is a journey, not a rest. You are travelling to the promised land, from the cradle to the grave.

All are on the Path, whose end is THE ALL. All progress is a Returning Home. All is Upward and Onward, in spite of all seemingly contradictory appearances. Such is the message of the Illumined.

The trouble with our age is that it is all signposts and no destination.

When a man takes one step toward God, God takes more steps toward that man than there are sands in the worlds of time.

You've been making the wrong mistakes.

Tuning the lyre and handling the harp are no accomplishments of mine, but rather taking in hand a city that was small and inglorious and making it glorious and great.

Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.