House Peters, Jr. quotes

Nothing to impede progress. If you want to see the fate of democracies, look out the windows.
-- House Peters, Jr.

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When I cannot understand my Father's leading, And it seems to be but hard and cruel fate, Still I hear that gentle whisper ever pleading, God is working, God is faithful-Only wait.

Let never man be bold enough to say, Thus, and no farther shall my passion stray: The first crime, past, compels us into more, And guilt grows fate, that was but choice, before.

The only way you can influence your fate is to put your soul into your performance and hope it registers with the audience.

Few men can be said to have inimitable excellencies: let us watch them in their progress from infancy to manhood, and we shall soon be convinced that what they attained was the necessary consequence of the line they pursued, and the means they used.

We are always works in progress. You will hurt people you love, and help people you detest. This is called being a human and it happens to everyone.

A great many of us have confused change with progress.

But even more: all at once the Jew also becomes liberal and begins to rave about the necessary progress of mankind.

Pluralism is no longer simply an asset or a prerequisite for progress and development, it is vital to our existence.

Future orientation is combined with a notion and expectation of progress, and nothing is impossible.

Don't hurry anything. Don't worry about the future. Don't worry about what progress you're making. Just be entirely content to be aware of what is.