Quotes About Growth

The most tried and true way to put God first is to read His Word, the Bible, and obey it. There are no shortcuts to spiritual growth.

Adversity gives you the opportunity to exhibit godly character.

We survive by learning from pain

No one gets over anything.

She wasn't trying to overcome life, only to get along with it, to blend with the processes she could scarcely understand in a world that had permitted her no solid ground.

In 20,000 walks you're bound to learn a little.

Fifty years ago I learned to jump off the calendar but I kept getting drawn back on for reasons of greed and my imperishable stupidity.

No one grows up, they just get tired. Or few indeed. No stopping for dead animals on the turnpike. Too dangerous.

I caught myself being drawn ceaselessly back into a past that I wished mightily to emerge from -- I had come to know only recently that one *could* emerge without forgetting, and that to remember need not be to suffocate.

I think there are lots of ways of leading very good lives and growing spiritually. This process of growth goes on whether we believe it or not.

You are where you are because that's where you need to be... and if you need to move on, you will move on.

We can also learn to develop a new capacity for seeing the nervous water of an emotional process (a coach or a guide like Kenny is helpful). It requires some new categories for thinking; it means practicing some new disciplines and skills. It entails change in how we relate to others, and it demands time and patience. But leadership in the kingdom of God is worth the effort.

Grown-ups are always more fascinated by what you might become then what you are.

Grown-ups are always more fascinated by what you might become than by what you are.

Grownups are always more fascinated by what you might become than what you are.

Your mind is like a parachute, It works best open..

Between childhood, boyhood, adolescence and manhood (maturity) there should be sharp lines drawn with tests, deaths, feats, rites, stories, songs, and judgments.

A weed is a plant out of place.' Let me repeat that. A weed is a plant out of place.' I find a hollyhock in my cornfield, and it's a weed. I find it in my yard, and it's a flower.

There should be no rush to have a child reading before age six or seven. That's developmentally the natural time.

I have always learned the most about the world by going to places I was never supposed to be and being with people I was never supposed to meet.

but I like who I became just fine. That's the way life is. We all try to make something out of our lives, and some of us are just luckier than others.

You are your own best teacher. ~Jimmy Buffett

Go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is.

We had made the exciting discovery that our lives do not need to be limited to past experiences. The future could be challenging and fulfilling as well.