Quotes About Growth

It is in sudden testings that our treasure is revealed. St. Francis of Assisi

Strange, isn't it, how one can always learn to love oneself, however ghastly one is?

Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish.

What else should our lives be but a continual series of beginnings, of painful settings out into the unknown, pushing off from the edges of consciousness into the mystery of what we have not yet become.

I have stopped finding fault with creation and have learned to accept it. We have some power in us that knows its own ends. It is that which drives us on to what we must finally become… This is the true meaning of transformation. This is the real metamorphosis.

Always to be pushing out like this, beyond what I know cannot be the limits - what else should a man's life be?

What else is death but the refusal any longer to grow and suffer change?

I might grow old in Brisbane, but I would never grow up.

We're all put to the test... but it never comes in the form or at the point we would prefer, does it?

I don't like to lose-at anything... Yet I've grown most not from victories, but setbacks. If winning is God's reward, then losing is how he teaches us.

I just tried to create a little chaos. Chaos is a good thing. God created the whole world out of it. Change is what comes of it.

You come to God not by being strong, but by being weak; not by being right, but through your mistakes.

Our bread is not only the Word of God, our meat is not only to do His will, our bread is also...the difficulties that are in our way.

God uses change to change us. He doesn't use it to destroy us or to distract us, but to coax us to the next level of character, experience, compassion and destiny!

Ponder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice and plant virtue.

How do we bring glory to God? The Bible's short answer is: by growing more and more like Jesus Christ.

Get out of the boat. Face your fears. Fail. Learn. Adjust. Try again. And watch God do more than you can imagine.

All you have to do is get in a closer walk with God and you'll find your enemies are in your own church.

We forget that God's primary goal is not changing our situations or relationships so that we can be happy, but changing us through our situations and relationships so that we will be holy.

As believers, you don't need to pray for a new heart, you need to pray for a new head.

God will use your mess for good. We see a perfect mess; God sees a perfect chance to train, test , and teach.

Problems are invitations. They allow us to have encounters and experiences that enable us to discover who God is for us.

God is more interested in what we are than in what we do. He looks for fruit; we try to produce works.

God sometimes takes us into troubles waters not to drown us, but to cleanse us.