Quotes about Adaptation

I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.

Our moral and cultural traditions have not kept pace with our economic possibilities. We try to match new demands with a spiritual life not designed for them.

you don't really have to know all that much yourself; you just do it differently than it was done before.

he had never been able to tailor his behavior to what the goals at hand reasonably required.

He had no ability to plan and organize and pay attention and switch focus; he had never been able to tailor his behavior to what the goals at hand reasonably required.

increasingly short periods of time—first 1,200 years, then less than 600 years, then less than 125 years, then 50 years.

I've met people in the last year or two who have stopped going to their local church because people have started singing new songs and dancing in the aisles. And I've met others who have started going for precisely the same reason. It's time to give ourselves a shake--to recognize that different people need different kinds of help at different stages of their lives--and get on with it.

After defending the value of prepared prayers, the author cautions against over-reliance on them. Just as David could not fight in the armor of King Saul, we are called to fight in the way God has equipped us uniquely.

From the beginning no serious Christian has been able to say 'This is my culture, so I must adapt the gospel to fit within it', just as no serious Christian has been able to say 'This is my surrounding culture, so I must oppose it tooth and nail'. Christians are neither chameleons, changing colour to suit their surroundings, nor rhinoceroses, ready to charge at anything in sight.

One of the great New Testament words is Now. That was then, this is now.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

I never lose. I either win or I learn.