James Freeman Clarke Quotes About Progress

Quotes about: Progress

• We are either progressing or retrograding all the while; there is no such thing as remaining stationary in this life.

  James Freeman Clarke

  Inspirational, Recovery, Progress

  "Edge-Tools of Speech". Book by Maturin M. Ballou (p. 397), 1886.

• As the days of spring arouse all nature to a green and growing vitality, so when hope enters the soul it makes all things new. It insures the progress which it predicts. Rooted in faith, growing up into love; these make the three immortal graces of the Gospel, whose intertwined arms and concurrent voices shed joy and peace over our human life.

  James Freeman Clarke

  Hope, Growing Up, Spring

  James Freeman Clarke (1880). “Self-culture, lectures”

• Amid all change, we desire something permanent; amid all variety, something stable; amid all progress, some central unity of life; something which deepens as we ascend; which roots itself as we advance; which grows more and more tenacious of the old, while becoming more and more open to the new.

  James Freeman Clarke

  Roots, Unity, Progress

  james freeman clarke (1864). “the hour whic conveth and now is sermons preached in indiana place chapel boston”, p.114

• Progress, in the sense of acquisition, is something; but progress in the sense of being, is a great deal more. To grow higher, deeper, wider, as the years go on; to conquer difficulties, and acquire more and more power; to feel all one's faculties unfolding, and truth descending into the soul,--this makes life worth living.

  James Freeman Clarke

  Years, Soul, Progress

  James Freeman Clarke (1880). “Self-culture, lectures”

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