Quotes About Growth

God is going to reveal me as a flawed human being as fast as he can and he's going to enjoy it because it will force me to grapple with real intimacy.

Almost without exception the most beautiful, selfless people I've met are ones who've experienced personal tragedy.

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.

Humans are designed to seek comfort and order, and so if they have comfort and order, they tend to plant themselves, even if their comfort is not all that comfortable, even if they see clearly want for something better.

It hurts now, but I'll love this memory, I thought to myself. And I do.

I was a tree in a story about a forest, the story of the forest is better than the story of the tree

The human body essentially recreates iteself every six months. Nearly every cell of hair and skin and bone dies and another is directed to its former place. You are not who you were in February.

Relationships are teleological. They're all going somewhere and they're turning us into something, hopefully something better, something new.

I want to be with people who are humble and hungry, have healthy relationships, and are working to create new and better realities in the world.

There's truth in the idea we're never going to be perfect in love but we can get close. And the closer we get, the healthier we will be. Love is not a game any of us can win, it's just a story we can live and enjoy.

But true intimacy is just like that: it's the food you grow from well-tilled ground. And like most things good for us, it's an acquired taste.

I felt a long way from the pre-me, the pawn-Christian who was a Republican because my family was Republican, not because I had prayed and asked God to enlighten me about issues concerning the entire world rather than just America.

I thought about how there are so many lies in fear. So much deception. What else keeps us from living a better story than fear?

He said, "Don, when something hard happens to you, you have two choices in how to deal with it. You can either get bitter, or better. I chose to get better. It's made all the difference.

we learn because in doing so we experience something like the pleasure God felt in the act of creation. We discover his handiworks with him.

Reality is like a fine wine," he said to me. "It will not appeal to children.

There is no conflict man can endure that will not produce a blessing.

In business, if we don't communicate clearly, we shrink.

Jason decided to stop yelling at his daughter and, instead, created a better story to invite her into.

The principle that characters do not want to change applies to more than just fiction.

The point of a story is never about the ending, remember. It's about your character getting

There are no specific results mentioned or details about what life is like now that the transformation has taken place. If you're asking customers to write a

I only say this because a positive evolution happened in my life when I realized healthy relationships happen best between healthy people.

A general rule in creating stories is that characters don't want to change. They must be forced to change.