Quotes About Growth

What were the unrealistic expectations I had, and how can I better manage these next time?

No matter how saved, sanctified, mature, and free we are, there are misalignments embedded in our souls.

What if the worst parts of your life are actually gateways to the very best parts you'd never want to do without?

We must feel the pain to heal the pain. If we never allow ourselves to feel it, we won't acknowledge it's there.

every great success story has elements of failure.

away from things that aren't beneficial for me.

wisdom like none other can arise from those hard places that bring us low.

We can go to Bible study and amen every point made, but if we don't apply it to our lives, we won't be changed.

They say time heals—and I think this can be true—but only if that's truly the goal here: healing. Time grows the seeds that are planted, watered, and fertilized. Plant beauty, grow beauty. Plant thorns, grow thorns. Time will allow for either.

Comfort zones don't have to be comfortable--they're just familiar. It's where you feel like you belong. And, where you feel you belong is where you will stay.

Anything that infuses us with humility is good. Even if it feels a bit like humiliation in the moment, the workings of humility within are a gift.

The Bible reminds us that on the other side of humility we find wisdom

Relationships don't come in packages of perfection; relationships come in packages of potential.

In a growth mindset, people believe that their most basic abilities can be developed through dedication and hard work—brains and talent are just the starting point. This view creates a love of learning and a resilience that is essential for great accomplishment.3 I am fascinated by this research

Numb souls are never growing souls.

Pain is the sensation that indicates a transformation is needed.

The space between our expectations and our reality is a fertile field, and it's the perfect place to grow a bumper crop of disappointment.

Don't we get into God's Word so it can get into us? So that it can interrupt us, change us, satisfy us? How sad to simply settle for learning facts about the Bible when it was meant for so much more

I came across a quote from the book Art and Fear that says it best: "Making art provides uncomfortably accurate feedback about the gap that inevitably exists between what you intended to do, and what you did."3 And the gap never stays silent.

Becoming more than a good Bible study girl means I separate my shortcomings from my identity and let Jesus be the only measure of my worth.

If things are ever going to get better, we have to acknowledge our underbellies that fuel our unglued reactions.

We must spend time with God, letting His truths become part of who we are and how we live.

The real reason for grounding ourselves in the truth that we are made for more is "so that you may know him better." The more we operate in the truth of who we are and the reality that we were made for more, the closer to God we'll become.

God is interested in my character, not my comfort.