Quotes About Growth

Sometimes I wonder whether I have felt everything I'm ever going to feel

Solitude is a chosen separation for refining your soul. Isolation is what you crave when you neglect the first.

The more you continue to read Scripture, the more you begin to think as He thinks and act as He acts. And that's how, over time, you gain the wisdom of the ages.

Remember that suffering will change you, but not necessarily for the better. You must choose to grow better not bitter.

Only you can keep yourself spiritually healthy by feeding yourself. No one can do it for you by proxy.

A leader's role is not to maintain. It is to gain altitude!

God is not cruel, but He is not lenient. He is true; He is not safe. He is unchanging; therefore we must change. We must learn in order to succeed. Our failures do not influence our grades, but our unwillingness to learn from them does. I

If you can figure out how to learn from the bad as well as from the good, you'll learn twice as much in life.'' That's why God put into the Bible raw, unedited accounts of men and women behaving both wisely and foolishly.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved." HELEN KELLER

We don't forget that we are Christians. We forget that we are human, and that one oversight alone can debilitate the potential of our future.

Creative affinity means you become increasingly more like that which you love the most.

Suffering will change us, but not necessarily for the better. We have to choose that. And it was the choosing that made all the difference for me.

The last 5 percent . . . it's something we have to discover and then be responsible for. • • Only I can be a husband/wife to my spouse. • • Only I can be a father/mother to my children. • • Only I can grow myself spiritually. • • Only I can keep myself healthy. • • Only I can keep myself disciplined.

I can see that if this was an album done 10 or 15 years ago we could see we were moving on to some place else.

The fact that you are willing to say, ''I do not understand, and it is fine,'' is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.

There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.

The idea of unlimited growth... needs to be seriously questioned on at least two counts: the availability of basic resources and... the capacity of the environment to cope with the degree of interference implied. - E.F. Schumacher

At nine, all fathers are perfect. At twenty-nine, they're not so perfect.

is going to be more like a family and less like a business, more a growing network of friends than a set of rules and rituals.

is simply the way people share life together when Jesus is their growing preoccupation and they are learning to listen and follow him. If people

community of the new creation that Jesus is building. They

the greatest journeys of our lives begin so simply that we don't even know we've embarked on them until we're well down the road looking back.

God sees something redemptive even in letting us fail. He seems less concerned about our mistakes than how we respond to them. Do our mistakes lead us away from trusting in our own strength or wisdom and toward seeking what it means to put our trust in him?

Those who have different experiences and cultures will have ideas that can benefit us if we choose to be exposed to them.