Moral Growth quotes
8 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it."
"Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth."
"Maybe the growth of "God" signifies the existence of God. That is: if history naturally pushes people toward moral improvement, toward moral growth, and their God, as they conceive their God, grows accordingly, becoming morally richer, then maybe this growth is evidence of some higher purpose, and maybe - conceivably - the source of that purpose is worthy of the name divinity."
"Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort."
"Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all."
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"All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth."