Quotes About Growth

I spent my 30s fixing everything I broke in my 20s.

In reality, all men are sculptors, constantly chipping away the unwanted parts of their lives trying to create a masterpiece.

I'm trying to break any chain of negative parenting that I might have survived.

Life moves fast. As much as you can learn from your history, you have to move forward.

No matter how good you are, at some point your kids are gonna have to create their own independence and think that Mom and Dad aren't cool, just to establish themselves. That's what adolescence is about. They're gonna go through that no matter what.

We are eager to give birth to new ministries, but are lousy at letting old ones die.

One of Jesus's secrets to fruitfulness in ministry is pruning.

When branches are pruned, more of the life of the vine goes into producing the fruit. Without pruning, each year more and more of the sap of the vine goes into sustaining more and more branches and leaves, and each year the fruit is a bit smaller than it was last year. Just as God prunes our lives, removing those good things that bore fruit in the previous season of our lives so all of our energy can be poured into new areas of growth, God does the same thing in the church.

Every brand new day is a new lesson.

Every brand new is a new lesson.

Here comes the rain again. It's a blessing.

Life without love is like a world without flowers

Sometimes it's strange being me. I travel the world meeting people, I'm surrounded with friends and my life is full, but all the time I am confronted by a young man I have nothing in common with. He is me, but he is not me now. In fact I have been me now for longer than I was him, but no one wants to know about me.

Once I had wondered what it would be like to be an adult. I thought, like all children, that adulthood was accompanied by esoteric secrets, complicated insights, mysteriously acquired skills. But it turned out to be very simple: you were exactly the same, you were still a child, but you had to find a way to look after yourself.

I used to hurt so badly that I'd ask God why, what have I done to deserve any of this? I feel now He was preparing me for this, for the future. That's the way I see it.

Realize that the plumpest berries are over the graves.

Results and Roses The man who wants a garden fair, or small or very big, With flowers growing here and there, Must bend his back and dig. The things are mighty few on earth That wishes can attain. Whate'er we want of any worth We've got to work to gain. It matters not what goal you seek, It's secret here reposes: You've got to dig from week to week To get Results or Roses.

It takes a heap o' livin' in a house t' make it home

The timid and fearful first failures dismay, but the stout heart stays trying by night and by day. He values his failures as lessons that teach The one way to get to the goal he would reach.

Actually, we have no problems, we have opportunities for which we should give thanks. An error we refuse to correct has many lives. It takes courage to face one's own shortcomings and wisdom to do something about them…

You grow to heaven. You don't go to heaven.

Success! Success! The enemy of progress!

Everybody has talent at twenty-five. The difficult thing is to have it at fifty.

The goal of relationship building should be to reduce each other's blind spots by each revealing more of our concealed selves.