Quotes About Growth

God has to nearly kill us sometimes, to teach us lessons.

I don't want my children to be what I want them to be. I want them to become everything God created them to be.

Many Christians suffer because they're too busy seeking carnal knowledge instead of the Word of God.

With God, it isn't who you were that matters; it's who you are becoming.

Once I had asked God for one or two extra inches in height, but instead he made me as tall as the sky, so high that I could not measure myself.

If you plant yourself in one place and let your roots grow deep, there is no limit to what God can do.

Peter was sick of being a pop star, the guitar god, and so he decided to teach himself other instruments. Among the instruments that he picked up was the mandolin.

Sometimes, certain of God's blessings arrive by shattering all the windows. (Brida)

If we seek the essence of every situation, if we seek to connect to God within our hearts, then we will find an opportunity there, to grow internally in wisdom in every trial we face.

Better to admit where you're not and ask God's help to get you where you need to be.

We plant sod where God wants 2 plant seed. He's more interested in growing our character than having us look finished.

In this way, through experience they will be formed adequately, will be encouraged, and will be capable of rendering service to God.

God has always opened one door after another. Sometimes you think all the doors are closed and just when you think that, a door opens.

When a Christian stops growing, help is needed. If you are the same Christian you were a few months ago, be careful.

Those who base their lives on the belief that a loving God is acting in their behalf tend to see problems as opportunities for growth.

We shall find that the spheres God brings us into are not meant to teach us something but to make us something.

Instant obedience will teach you more about God than a lifetime of Bible discussions.

A disciple is one who thinks, feels and acts like Jesus Christ. It is being conformed to the image of Christ as Romans 8:28-29 states-that God's No.1 purpose in our lives is to make us like Jesus.

...I should have people around bugging me and getting under my skin because without people I could not grow - I could not grow in God, and I could not grow as a human.

I used to hurt so badly that I'd ask God why, what have I done to deserve any of this? I feel now He was preparing me for this, for the future. That's the way I see it.

In all adversity, what God takes away He may give us back with increase.

My years as a mystic have made me question almost all my assumptions. They've made me a proud I-don't-know-it-all.

I had the choice to either grow up and find God in the situation or become bitter. I chose to find God. And I experienced freedom like I never knew before.

All things are lessons that God would have us learn.