Quotes About Growth

All we needed when we first came to Jesus was his grace, and grace is all we need to grow in Christ. Grace liberates us. Our tendency toward performance imprisons us.

In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relives you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season

Jesus accepts you the way you are, but loves you too much to leave you that way.

People mature at different stages and I feel I'm learning a lot.

The Soul can hear the violets grow! It can hear the throbbing heart of God!

Nature does not make leaps.

You can embark on new and steeper versions of your old sins, you know, and cry tears while doing it that are genuine as any.

Why is it our failures only show us more clearly the people we are failing?

Frank Sinatra is the only one that went from teen idol to superstar.

Whether it was the stimulus of the radio, or simply that he was growing up, or both, he saw everything about him in a new way, as though he had managed to get a little distance off so that his sight wasn't blurred by being too close.

Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 30

It is the market that drives planned obsolescence, not growth or consumerism.

The campaign against economic growth and overconsumption should have no place on the left. While its current austerity-ecology incarnation appears to many progressives as a fresh, new argument fit for the Anthropocene, it is in fact the descendent of a very old, dark and Malthusian set of ideas that the left historically did battle with.

One of the most important popular concepts that we do have to ditch is the idea that there is some natural balance that mankind is intruding upon as a result of our growth.

Be open to the amazing changes which are occurring in the field that interest you.

It is soooooo necessary to get the basic skills, because by the time you graduate, undergraduate or graduate, that field would have totally changed from your first day of school.

God loves us the way we are, but too much to leave us that way.

Human progress is not an uninterrupted march forward. It is a slow and devious movement with haltings and twistings. The pathway of man ascends and descends, wanders off into mazes. At times the trail seems to lose itself in the wilderness of human passion and folly. But inch by inch it goes forward with halting steps.

I think you have to know how you feel when you're sad and it's healthy to mourn if a relationship ends.

I feel more mature than most people my age.

The older your teenagers are, the more they will have their own ideas and opinions. If you take them seriously, rather than assuming your ideas are always best and the only ones, you will begin to grow a relationship that will extend beyond the hormone-group years.

Every child lives up to the expectation you have for him.

Since I was about twenty-five, nothing changed, except I got smarter and wiser and things have an effect on you. But I never thought I was any older, really. It was just a very long twenty-five!