There is no law of progress. Our future is in our own hands, to make or to mar. It will be an uphill fight to the end, and would we have it otherwise? Let no one suppose that evolution will ever exempt us from struggle. "You forget," said the Devil, with a chuckle, "that I have been evolving too."

Dean Inge

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There is no law of progress. Our future is in our own hands, to make or to mar. It will be an uphill fight to the end, and would we have it otherwise? Let no one suppose that evolution will ever exempt us from struggles. 'You forget,' said the Devil, with a chuckle, 'that I have been evolving too.

— William Ralph Inge

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The belief in progress, not as an ideal but as an indisputable fact, not as a task for humanity but as a law of Nature, has been the working faith of the West for about a hundred and fifty years.

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I have no fear that the candle lighted in Palestine years ago will ever be put out.

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Faith is an act of self-consecration, in which the will, the intellect, and the affections all have their place.

Action is the normal completion of the act of will which begins as prayer. That action is not always external, but it is always some kind of effective energy.

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