Quotes About Growth

Galatians 5:16-23 reminds us of Jesus' description of our relationship to him as branches connected to a vine (John 15:1-11).

By reading twenty-five to thirty chapters a week, an appetite for the Word of God is created.

Scripture memorization has a number of benefits. We become what we place our minds on.

Disciple making is not a program but a relationship.

Intimate, accountable relationship with other believers is the foundation for growing in discipleship.

If I were to choose one word to summarize the state of discipleship today, that word would be superficial.

Can you imagine the kingdom impact if every believer had the opportunity to be involved in an intensive, year-long relationship with at least two others whose expressed purpose was to grow to become a reproducing disciple of Jesus? Church life would shift from the ministry of professionals to a mobilized body of multipliers.

As the alternative to the one-on-one model, I propose a threesome that I call a triad as the ideal size for a disciple-making group.

The scriptural model for growing disciples is through relationships. Jesus called the Twelve to "be with him" (Mark 3:14), for their lives would be transformed through personal association.

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No matter where you are you can grow something to eat. Shift your thinking and you'd be surprised at the places your food can be grown! Window sill, fire escape and rooftop gardens have the same potential to provide impressive harvests as backyard gardens, greenhouses and community spaces.

If Iraq's weapons are weapons of mass destruction, surely ours are weapons of growth and nurturing.

the same law of physics applied to any injury, physical or emotional. If you babied it, it stiffened even more, spreading the pain through you. But if you yielded, if you were willing to endure the white-hot agony of making vulnerable what you sought to protect, you had a shot at releasing it.

Every time I consider myself an adult, I think back five years to when I also thought of myself as an adult. An I'm aghast at how staggeringly blind I was. Maybe what I hold to be true right now will seem just as ignorant when I reflect back on it years from now.

What we resist pursues us. What we accept transforms us.

Maturity is graduating from the belief that the world misunderstands you to the awareness that you misunderstand the world.

Maybe that's all growing up is. Knowing in real time that you don't know anything.

Maybe the only way to get anywhere worth being is to pick up the heaviest thing you can carry. And carry it.

A baby takes everything from you. Everything you were before." She waved a hand, a ghostly flicker in the blackness. "Your time. Your figure. Your looks. They take your sleep until you don't know how to function.

Don't surround yourself with like-minded people. You'll get limited or radicalized.

Remember that what you do not yet know is more important than what you already know.—Jordan Peterson

and harmony between partnerships and friends. And the key to harmony is to make room for change in your life. It's this

The pioneering anthropologist Louis Leakey once stated, "Without an understanding of who we are, we cannot truly advance.

the activities of every day can't be separate from our spiritual evolution—they are our spiritual evolution!