“At every crossway on the path that leads to the future, each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand men appointed to guard the past. Let us have no fear that the fair towers of former days be sufficiently defended. The least that the most timid among us can do is not to add to the immense dead weight that nature drags along.” MenPastSpiritCan DoPathThousandFairsWeightAddFormerPersistenceProgressiveDragImmenseTowersNo FearHave No Fear Author:Maurice Maeterlinck
“A dreaded society is not a civilized society. The most progressive and powerful society in the civilized sense, is a society which has recognized its ethos, and come to terms with the past and the present, with religion and science. With modernism and mysticism, with materialism and spirituality; a society free of tension, a society rich in culture. Such a society cannot come with hocus-pocus formulas and with fraud. It has to flow from the depth of a divine search.” PastCultureSpiritualityTermPowerfulRichDivineEthicsFlowDepthTensionMaterialismMysticismCivilizedProgressiveFormulasFraudScience And ReligionModernismEthosCivilized SocietyHocus Pocus Author:Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
“To accept with unquestioning faith, or to refuse to reconsider any particular view held by the Church in the past, is as unreasonable as it is unsafe. The faith of the Church is a progressive affair.” PastChurchViewsAcceptingParticularAffairRefuseProgressiveUnreasonableUnsafe Author:George Trumbull Ladd
“Generally, we are united in the belief that all rod design has been progressive and that the ideas about fly rods in the past were so bad as to make it amazing that people were able to fish at all.” PeopleHas BeensIdeasAblePastBeliefUnitedSeaDesignRiversFishesBoatLakesFishingProgressive Book:The Longest Silence: A Life in Fishing Source: The Longest Silence: A Life in Fishing
“But the Progressive Conservative is very definitely liberal Republican. These are people who are moderately conservative on economic matters, and in the past have been moderately liberal, even sometimes quite liberal on social policy matters.” PeopleHas BeensSometimesMatterPastSocialEconomicPolicyRepublicanConservativeProgressiveSocial Policy Author:Stephen Harper
“God must have been engaged from the beginning, and must now be engaged in progressive development, and infinite as God is, he must have been less powerful in the past than he is today.... We may be certain that, through self-effort, the inherent and innate powers of God have been developed to a God-like degree. Thus he has become God.” MayHas BeensSelfTodayPastCertainPowerfulEffortDevelopmentDegreesInfiniteEngagedProgressiveInherentInnatePower Of God Author:John Andreas Widtsoe