Pope Francis Quotes

The evils which are complained of can not be eradicated at once; the work must be gradual.

Change is incremental and real change, enduring change, occurs one step at a time.

Creating deep and meaningful change in this country takes time - years and sometimes decades.

In our view, successful reform is not an event. It is a sustainable process that will build on its own successes - a virtuous cycle of change.

Reform is not a one-night stand.

In politics one should not expect big jumps. Everything takes time.

Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.

Real change happens a step at a time.

… evolution over revolution.

Beginning reform is beginning revolution.

Human society cannot, be changed in a year.

The Arab world’s wave of change was a century in the making, Why expect its effects to become clear in the space of months

I'm the world's original gradualist. I just think ninety-odd years is gradual enough.

Change, like healing, takes time.

The crises of our time, it becomes increasingly clear, are the necessary impetus for the revolution now under way. And once we understand nature's transformative powers, we see that it is our powerful ally, not a force to feared our subdued.

Sometimes the wheel turns slowly, but it turns.

Waste no time with revolutions that do not remove the causes of your complaints but simply change the faces of those in charge.

A house cannot be made habitable in a day; and, after all, how few days go to make up a century.

A few years in the age of nations is nothing.

Too often reform involves the mechanics of change rather than the underlying values.

When emotions are deeply stirred, progress must be gradual.

He who desires or attempts to reform the government of a state, and wishes to have it accepted ... must at least retain the semblance of the old forms; so that it may seem to the people that there has been no change in the institutions, even though in fact they are entirely different from the old ones.

When the object is to raise the permanent condition of a people, small means do not merely produce small effects; they produce no effect at all.

It takes a long time to bring about change.

Not only are there no free lunches, but there are no free systemic changes either.