155 Quotes About Progressive

You can either have individual liberty, or dependence on the government. One is designed to undo the other.

The majority of India's adult and elderly population is too medieval to think as civilized, rational and progressive human beings.

Death is something empires worry about, not something gardeners worry about. It's certainly not something resurrection people worry about.

I may be wrong, but I think the point is this: what each of us longs for the most is to be both fully known and fully loved. Miraculously, God feels the same way about us. God, too, wants to be fully known and fully loved.

I can't be a Christian on my own. Like it or not, following Jesus is a group activity, something we're supposed to do together...We're going to need each other's help.

When I get to those stories in the New Testament, I'm inclined to take the sophisticated approach and assume the people who had demons cast out of them were healed of mental illness of epilepsy...But lately I've been wondering if these something important out, something about the shape and nature of evil, which, as Alexander Schmemann puts it, is not merely an absence of good but "the presence of dark and irrational power.

To be a priest is to know that things are not as they should be and yet to care for them the way they are.

But perhaps the most unsettling thing about a new church is the way the ghost of the old one haunts it. For better or worse, the faith of our youth informs our fears, our nostalgia, our reactions, and our suspicions.

In his testimony before his baptism, Andrew said, "I put off baptism because I felt like I was in a state of sin, like I wasn't good enough or fit enough to be baptized. But then I realized that baptism is done at the beginning of your faith journey, not the middle or the end. You don't have to have everything together to be baptized...You just have to grasp God's grace. God's grace is enough.