Quotes about Advancement

Men of authority and influence may promote good morals. Let them in their several stations encourage virtue. Let them favor and take part in any plans which may be formed for the advancement of morality.

It's clearly possible for a something to acquire higher intelligence than its ancestors: we evolved to be smarter than our ape-like ancestors, and Einstein was smarter than his parents.

The positive aspects of modernity are to be acknowledged unreservedly: we are all grateful for the marvellous possibilities that it has opened up for mankind and for the progress in humanity that has been granted to us.

Tactics have changed a lot, but the standard is getting better.

Everyone who got to where they are had to begin where they were.

To make it really clear and simple, let's call this movement across history we see in passages like the ones we just looked at from Exodus and Deuteronomy clicks. What we see is God meeting people at the click they're at, and then drawing them forward. When they're at F, God calls them to G. When we're at L, God calls us to M. And if we're way back there at A, God meets us way back there at A and does what God always does: invites us forward to B.

No great advance has been made in science, politics, or religion without controversy.

Leaders grow; they are not made.

Progress requires change.

No matter where you are in your leadership journey, never forget that what got you to where you are won't get you to the next level.

Growth inside fuels growth outside.

Progress does not occur without change.