"We all want progress. But progress means getting nearer to the place where you want to be. And if you have taken a wrong turning, then to go forward does not get you any nearer. If you are on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive man."
-C.S. Lewis
I think I'll borrow that quotation, if you don't mind, and use it on my mother's liberal family!
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ReplyDeleteBTW, a Chesterton quote along somewhat similar lines:
"When men have come to the edge of a precipice, it is the lover of life who has the spirit to leap backwards, and only the pessimist who continues to be a progressive."
(November 8, 1924, Illustrated London News
I laughed out loud at this! I love it! Once again Chesterton makes an inarguable point. Without question he is my favorite author.
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