Quotes About Evolution

There is nothing bad in undergoing change—or good in emerging from it.

both thou thyself shalt become a new man, and thou shalt begin a new life.

Heraclitus never be out of thy mind, that the death of earth, is water, and the death of water, is air; and the death of air, is fire; and so on the contrary. Remember him also who

The nature of the universe delights in nothing more, than in altering those things that are, and in making others like unto them. So that we may say, that whatsoever it is, is but as it were the seed of that which shall be.

Change is the universal experience. Thou art thyself undergoing a perpetual transformation and, in some sort, decay: aye and the whole Universe as well.

Is any many so foolish as to fear change, to which all things that once were not owe their being?

Everything's destiny is to change, to be transformed, to perish. So that new things can be born.

There is a river of creation, and time is a violent stream. As soon as one thing comes into sight, it is swept past and another is carried down: it too will be taken on its way.

the seasons of life

How can we all grow?

One must die to an old way of being in order to enter a new way of being... salvation is resurrection to a new way of being here and now.

The notions of biblical infallibility and inerrancy first appeared in the 1600s, and became insistently affirmed by some Protestants only in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

God may or may not be the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow, but the cultural context in which we speak about God does change.

being born again is not a single intense experience, but a gradual and incremental process. Dying to an old identity and being born into a new identity, dying to an old way of being and living into a new way of being, is a process that continues through a lifetime.

Postmodernity knows that someday the Newtonian worldview will seem as quaint and archaic as the Ptolemaic worldview, a development that has already occurred among theoretical physicists.

Its central elements are seen no longer as going back to the historical Jesus, but as the product of the early Christian movement in the decades after his death. Jesus as a historical figure was not very much like the most common image of him.

Two statements about the nature of the gospels are crucial for grasping the historical task: (1) They are a developing tradition. (2) They are a mixture of history remembered and history metaphorized.

I begin by noting that the books of the Bible were not sacred when they were written. Paul, for example, would have been amazed to know that his letters to his communities were to become sacred scripture. Rather, the various parts of the Bible became sacred through a process that took several centuries.

So much for endings. Beginnings are always more fun. True connoisseurs, however, are known to favor the stretch in between, since it's the hardest to do anything with. That's about all that can be said for plots, which anyway are just one thing after another, a what and a what and a what.

Her glass wings are gone.

I am not my childhood,' Snowman says out loud.

If you don't like it, change it, we said, to each other and to ourselves. And so we would change for the man, for another one. Change, we were sure, was for the better always. We were revisionists; what we revised was ourselves.

In the end, we'll all become stories. Or else we'll become entities. Maybe it's the same.

As we know from the study of history, no new system can impose itself upon a previous one without incorporating many of the elements to be found in the latter...