“The Qur'an does not ask for human perfection, but rather asks that we persevere in striving for self-improvement and that we never become complacent or despondent about our progress.” HumansDoeSelfAsksProgressSelf ImprovementPerfectionStriveImprovementPersevereComplacentDespondent Book:Even Angels Ask: A Journey to Islam in America Source: Even Angels Ask: A Journey to Islam in America
“As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.” WorldLoveInspirationalHumansAgeAbleHappinessLyingPeaceLeadershipHuman BeingsFamilyGreatnessSelf ImprovementGardenPersonal GrowthMythImprovementInner PeaceHumankindSelf DevelopmentRemakes Author:Mahatma Gandhi
“[The church] is in its major part an opponent still of progress and improvement in all the ways that diminish suffering in the world, because it has chosen to label as morality a certain narrow set of rules of conduct which have nothing to do with human happiness; and when you say that this or that ought to be done because it would make for human happiness, they think that has nothing to do with the matter at all. "What has human happiness to do with morals? The object of morals is not to make people happy.” PeopleThinkingWorldWayHumansStillsMatterDoneCertainSufferingChurchMoralProgressObjectsOughtMoralityMajorsImprovementChosenLabelsOpponentsDiminishMaking People HappyHuman Happiness Book:Why I Am Not a Christian Source: Why I Am Not a Christian
“A stationary condition of capital and population implies no stationary state of human improvement. There could be as much scope as ever for all kinds of mental culture, and moral and social progress.” HumansKindStatesCultureSocialMoralProgressConditionsPopulationImprovementAll KindsScopeSocial ProgressStationary Author:John Stuart Mill