Quotes About Growth

Ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth" (2 Timothy 3:7)

A newt?" "I got better.

Stop thinking in terms of limitations and start thinking in terms of possibilities.

the greatest ministry opportunities I've ever seen have followed the two big tragedies in my life.

Peter's greatest years in serving God came after his greatest failure,

But suddenly, he was firmly resolved about declining the UCLA alternative. A little while before, there had been a storm of controversy about Mickey Mantle and the kind of priority treatment he had received. DeForest suspected he was getting the celebrity treatment, that he might in effect take someone else's opportunity to live longer. In the end, he refused all treatment short of the medication designed to slow the growth of his cancer and the drugs for the pain.

Anyone in politics would like to have great economic numbers.

I personally believe in the power of second chances.

Back then I confused passions and orgasms with love. It look me years to realize the two weren't synonymous.

No one is unreachable as long as he is teachable.

one of Satan's favorite strategies for impeding the spiritual growth and usefulness of Christians: get them to become preoccupied with their failures; from then on, his battle is won.

I'd rather be a rising ape than a falling angel.

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.

Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.

And on the good days, when I felt as if I was making progress--I was scared then too.

One of the advantages of no longer being young is that you're expected to start making up your mind about certain things.

My voice is born repeatedly in the fields of uncertainty.

We multiply whenever we are mown down by you; the blood of Christians is seed.

It's painful and terrible that youth is over, and with it that whole game of looking and longing and vying for attention, hoping for something, for some absolute transformation of everything. But it's also a reprieve to be let off that hook and know that you're simply in your own hands at last

He had actually liked me – liked the clear, light, energetic person he saw in me. (I think over time I've become more like that person

If I was free, if I was just me, then what was I? What could I do; what could I become

What about kids?" "Well, a child is like a third, smaller ball that appears as part of the big one. You've no way of knowing what color it will be.

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lotta that comes from bad judgment.