Quotes About Growth

If we do not give thanks daily for the Christian fellowship in which we have been placed, even where there is no great experience, no discoverable riches, but much weakness, small faith, and difficulty; if, on the contrary, we only keep complaining to God that everything is so paltry and petty, so far from what we expected, then we hinder God from letting our fellowship grow according to the measure and riches which are there for us all in Jesus Christ.

The more thankfully we daily receive what is given to us, the more assuredly and consistently will community increase and grow from day to day as God pleases.

Why do I meditate? Because I am a Christian. Therefore, every day in which I do not penetrate more deeply into the knowledge of God's Word in Holy Scripture is a lost day for me. I can only move forward with certainty upon the firm ground of the Word of God. And, as a Christian, I learn to know the Holy Scripture in no other way than by hearing the Word preached and by prayerful meditation.

Just as Christians should not be constantly feeling the pulse of their spiritual life, so too the Christian community has not been given to us by God for us to be continually taking its temperature.

Immerse yourself in the meaning of the teachings, day after day, month after month, and the spiritual qualities of a bodhisattva will develop without difficulty, like honey collecting in the hive as the bees go from flower to flower, gathering nectar.

As we work together as a team, God grows our dreams into something greater than we can accomplish alone.

There is nothing so easily remade as our definitions of ourselves.

In fact, there is nothing so easily remade as our definitions of ourselves.

A una certa età tutti voi, uomini, cambiate. Non rimane più niente di quello che eravate da piccoli. Diventate irriconoscibili. Anche tu colonnello, un giorno, dovevi essere diverso...

When we speak of the Path we mean much more than a course of study. The Path is a way of life and on it the whole being must co-operate if the heights are to be won.

Children who cling to parents or who don't want to leave home are stunted in their emotional, psychological growth.

We are the sum of all people we have ever met; you change the tribe and the tribe changes you.

Well tended garden is better than a neglected wood lot.

Suffering for love is how I have learned practically everything I know, love of grandmother up and on.

Youth is cause, effect is age; so with the thickening of the neck we get data.

He knew at the same time that this stricture of acceptance (by which what we must love is made into what we can love) would eventually be a part of himself

Everything can be used in a lifetime; I've discovered that.

Bend down the tree of knowledge and you'll unroost a strange bird.

She was broad and tall, and though her skin was the skin of a child, there could be seen coming, early in her life, the design that was to be the weather-beaten grain of her face, that wood in the work; the tree coming forward in her, an undocumented record of time.

Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.

I only want to write. And there's no college for that except life.

Perhaps watching someone you love suffer can teach you even more than suffering yourself can.

Was I the only woman in the world who, at my age - and after a lifetime of quite rampant independence - still did not quite feel grown up?

Look not at the days gone by with a forlorn heart. They were simply the dots we can now connect with our present, to help us draw the outline of a beautiful tomorrow.