Quotes About Growth

Once you've had enough and you can't do it anymore, you consider the possibility that there might be a better way. That's when your head cracks open and God comes in.

Instead of praying: 'Dear God, bring me someone fabulous,' try: 'Dear God, make me into someone fabulous.'

If you allow yourself to deepen with midlife, your experience of everything deepens, including your experience of God.

The healthiest and holiest people are the people who laugh at themselves the most. Failure helps us take God more seriously and ourselves less seriously.

Even if one glimpses God, there are cuts and splinters and burns along the way.

God's way of making separation with children easier was to invent adolescence.

As children of God we are somebody. He will build us, mold us, and magnify us if we will but hold our heads up, our arms out, and walk with him.

God's loving discipline brings us face-to-face with our pride.

God does not relish our sufferings, but He delights in our development.

I try to help people see that God uses pain, that pain is one of the ways God shapes us into the kind of beings He wants us to be for eternity.

See your enemies, not as God's failures, but as God's projects.

What you do for a tree, God does for you.

There's tons of stuff where you're like, "God, I wish I could take that back."

God has given us enough wisdom to make improvements in our relations.

I accept the historical challenge, and with that, I accept the essentially Christian position that God always has more light to break out of his holy Word.

Sometimes, if you're like me, [God] will brace or reprove in a highly personal process not understood or appreciated by those outside the context.

Nothing stays the same, nothing remains static. Which way a thing changes depends on you.

Sometimes God teaches us how to solve our problems. Sometimes God teaches us how to face our problems

I used to act dumb. That act is no longer cute. Now, I would like to make a difference God has given me this new chance.

God ain't finished with any of us yet.

When I write about my childhood I think, oh my God, how did I ever get from there to here? Not that any great thing has happened to me. But I felt so tiny, so lost.

We become fully human when we become more than human, when we let God bring us beyond ourselves.

God can never make us wine if we object to the fingers He uses to crush us with.

Let God fling you out (as seed), and do not go until He does. If you select your own spot, you will prove an empty pod. If God sows you, you will bring forth fruit.