Quotes about Adaptation

The major problem of life is learning how to handle the costly interruptions.

Your life begins to change when you change something you do every day.

There are those who would misteach us that to stick in a rut is consistency - and a virtue, and that to climb out of the rut is inconsistency - and a vice.

There are no mistakes in life!

Oh, unheard of compassion of the apostle! In seeking to make the Jews Christians, he himself became a Jew! For he could not have persuaded the luxurious to become temperate if he had not himself become luxurious like them;

Many Christians have what we might call a "cultural holiness". They adapt to the character and behavior pattern of Christians around them. As the Christian culture around them is more or less holy, so these Christians are more or less holy. But God has not called us to be like those around us. He has called us to be like himself. Holiness is nothing less than conformity to the character of God.

Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.

It is the fault of the orders, which are too rigid. There is no allowance for a change in circumstance.

That was called transplanting yourself, I thought, and it could be as necessary with people as with other sorts of growing things.

I wish I had a stone for the knife," the old man said after he had checked the lashing on the oar butt. "I should have brought a stone." You should have brought many things, he thought. But you did not bring them, old man. Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.

It is not basically a question of the size in repose, I said. It is the size that it becomes. It is also a question of angle.

YOU DO NOT know how long you are in a river when the current moves swiftly.