Quotes about Stagnation

This real world sounds like an awfully depressing place to live. It's a place where new ideas, unfamiliar approaches, and foreign concepts always lose. The only things that win are what people already know and do, even if those things are flawed and inefficient.

And as he had seen her that day, so she had remained; never quite the same height, yet never below it: generous, faithful, unwearied; but so lacking in imagination, so incapable of growth, that the world of her youth had fallen into pieces and rebuilt itself without her ever being conscious of the change.

Familiarity breeds complacency.

Impression without expression causes depression. Study without service leads to spiritual stagnation.

Sin happens whenever we refuse to keep growing.

There are always two risks: the risk of trying something new, and the risk of not trying. You risk settling and continuing in the same way, wondering about other paths and possibilities, believing that this is as good as it gets while discontent gnaws away at your soul.

They are that that talks of going But never gets away.

When learning stops, decay sets in.

America can't beat anyone anymore.

Again, the emphasis of the language warns against regression, for it literally reads, "You have become having need of milk, not solid food."4 They had begun to eat solid food early on but were now back on the bottle. The truth is, there is simply no such thing as a static Christian. We either move forward or fall back. We are either climbing or falling. We are either winning or losing. Static, status quo Christianity is a delusion!

There are two kinds of pain: the pain of change and the pain of never changing and remaining the same.

I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.