Quotes About Progress

I told the students that we can exert pressure without resorting to violence, and that we can move towards democracy without violence; that way, God will allow it.

There is great value in disaster. All our mistakes are burned up. Thank God we can start a new.

Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

I'm not what I want to be. I'm not what I'm going to be. But, thank God, I'm not what I was!

There are people who are uncanny, who are finished products at a young age. I wasn't, thank God.

I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing God for a nicer apartment than I had. Then I moved up.

God doesn't move until we move first.

We cannot believe that the church of God is already possessed of all that light which God intends to give it; nor that all Satan's lurking places have already been found out.

Here's good news: God is even more committed to your change, your growth, and your transformation than you are.

It's not where we've been that matters to God. It's who we are becoming in Him.

When a sense of dissatisfaction persists, that means it was placed there by God for one reason only: you need to change everything and move forward.

The only lasting truth is change. God is change.

I think that God means that we shall do more than we have yet done in furtherance of his plans and he will open the way for our doing it.

Christians aren't finished products. We're God's sons and daughters in process.

We must act on the direction we receive. We must look up and step up. And as we do, I know we will cheer up, for God wants us to be happy.

God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion.

God invites us to come as we are, not stay as we are.

This is God's work, and God's work will not be frustrated. But there is still much to be done.

We're concerned with how things turn out; God seems more concerned with how we turn out.

Those who wish to attain God and progress in religious devotion, should particularly guard themselves against the snares of lust and wealth. Otherwise they can never attain perfection.

While we worry about how fast we grow, God is concerned about how strong we grow.

The one victory we can ever call complete will be that one which proclaims that there is not one slave or one drunkard on the face of God's green earth.

God in the safe and Ford on the shelves.

When Benjamin Franklin invented the lightning-rod, the clergy, both in England and America, with enthusiastic support of George III, condemned it as an impious attempt to defeat the will of God.