Quotes About Growth

You wanted a more interesting world… Maybe I'm growing up quickly. Maybe I'm better than you planned… Maybe I'm just showing you that your world was interesting enough all the time, all on its own. And now I'm punishing you.

If you don't do it this year, you'll be one year older when you do.

Everything in the world starts small and then becomes bigger—except bad things. They start big, and then get smaller.

God must bring us to a point--I cannot tell you how it will be, but He will do it--where, through a deep and dark experience, our natural power is touched and fundamentally weakened, so that we no longer dare trust ourselves.

If you have not experienced the death of self, your spiritual life will have little real progress.

The more spiritual a child of God becomes, the more conscious he is of the significance of walking according to the spirit and the dangers of walking according to the flesh.

Many Christians are unaware how drastically the cross must work so that ultimately their natural power for living may be denied.

Suppose, for example, a brother has a brilliant but unbroken intellect. He may come to the meetings of a local church, but he is untouched. Unless he meets someone whose mind is sharper than his, he will not be helped. He will analyze the thoughts of the preacher and reject them as useless and meaningless. Months and years may pass by, and it is impossible for anything to touch his spirit. His spirit is stonewalled by his intellectual mind.

Every true spiritual experience means that we have discovered a certain fact in Christ and have entered into that. Anything that is not from Him in this way is an experience that is going to evaporate very soon.

Unless the believer offers his soul life to death, he shall cultivate that life, incur the displeasure of God, and miss the fruit of the Holy Spirit.

Each experience in your lifewas absolutely necessary in order to have gotten you to the next place, and the next place, up to this very moment.

You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life'.

Never underestimate your power to change yourself; never overestimate your power to change others.

All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, it will not change you.

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

My goal is not to be better than anyone else, but to be better than I used to be.

An infinity of forest lies dormant within the dreams on one acorn.

Our lives are greatly enriched when we immerse ourselves in literature and spiritual writing, not because we are going to be tested but purely for the sake of enrichment.

Until you transcend the ego, you can do nothing but add to the insanity of the world.

The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.

There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving and that's your own self. —ALDOUS HUXLEY

Sören Kierkegaard wrote, "Once you label me, you negate me." When the individual must live up to the label, the self ceases to exist. The same is true of self-labels. You could be negating yourself by identifying with your trademarks, rather than your own potential for growth.

Once you can change your thoughts, your new feelings will begin to emerge, and you will have taken the first step on the road to your personal freedom.

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.