Quotes about Adaptation

Live to learn and you will really learn to live.

Those churches have closed down or have been merged with a church that has a more positive vision.

And can anything else that is useful be accomplished without change? Do you not see then that for yourself also to change is just the same, and equally necessary for the universal nature?

The old order changeth yielding place to new and God fulfills himself in many ways.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

Things aren't what they used to be and probably never were.

Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are.

Fourthly, As to the difficulty of procuring the necessaries of life, this would not be so great as may appear at first sight; for though we could not procure European food, yet we might procure such as the natives of those countries which we visit, subsist upon themselves. And this would only be passing through what we have virtually engaged, in by entering on the ministerial office.

That which anyone has been long learning unwillingly, he unlearns with proportional eagerness and haste.

Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I shall not be able to find my way across the room, nor know how to conduct myself in any circumstances, nor what to feel in any relation of life.

Experience has ways of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas

Our minds thus grow in spots and like grease spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible we keep unaltered as much of our old knowledge, as many of our old prejudices and beliefs, as we can.