Quotes About Growth

God has ordained that our preaching become deeper and more winsome as we are broken, humbled, and made low and desperately dependent on grace by the trials of our lives.

To get where you want to go, you first have to become who God wants you to be.

Perhaps we don't want to come face to face with the unsurrendered areas of our lives. We like our lives just as they are, even if it is less than God's best.

The will of God is found in the Word of God. The more a person grows, the more he begins to think instinctively and habitually from a divine perspective.

Be grateful for the wound that pushes you towards God.

I believe that God left certain drugs growing naturally upon our planet to help speed up and facilitate our evolution.

God never uses anyone greatly until He tests them deeply.

Training in God's gym may hurt sometimes, but He will make us stronger.

God never uses a person greatly until He has wounded him deeply. The privilege He offers you is greater than the price you have to pay. The privilege is greater than the price.

Could it not be, that God loves me too deeply, by having people challenge me so that I know I'm not perfect.

God has a program of character development for each of us. He wants others to look at our lives and say, He walks with God, for he lives like Christ.

Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, "shake well before using." That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.

To believe in God starts with a conclusion about Him, develops into confidence in Him, and then matures into a conversation with Him.

God never put anyone in a place too small to grow in.

God's priority isn't your destination but your development. God's priority isn't the dream but the dreamer.

God often hides His blessing in trouble or trial, which makes it all the sweeter when it comes our way.

Sometimes pain and illness are not meant to be removed. You can't second-guess God. Rather than praying for it to go away, it's often wiser to pray that you learn as much from it as you possibly can.

God's purpose in increasing our trials is to sensitize us to people we never would have been able to relate to otherwise.

Don't let past mistakes keep you from seeking God

God is going to reveal to us things He never revealed before if we put our hands in His.

The church is God's vineyard.

The more the diamond is cut the brighter it sparkles; and in what seems hard dealing, there God has no end in view but to perfect His people.

Beware of harking back to what you once were when God wants you to be something you have never been.

God is more interested in developing your character than keeping you comfortable.