Quotes About Growth

what we don't know and can't do far exceeds what we do know and can do. A little humility, then, is hardly rocket science. It is common sense.

admire the United States not for what we were but for what we might become. Self-governing democracy was not an established creed, but a program for growth.

Man, like the vine, supported lives; His strength comes from the embrace he gives.

May the student in you become the teacher for another

The true test of a man, the beginning of his redemption, actually starts when he can no longer rely on what he's used all his life. The real journey begins when the false self fails.

This is the time for a young man to stop saying, "Why is life so hard?" He takes the hardness as the call to fight, to rise up, take it on.

We reframe everything by one simple choice: I am accepting God's invitation to become a man. From there we interpret jobs, money, relationships, flat tires, bad dates, even our play time as the context in which the boy is becoming a man. We take an active role, asking our Father to speak to us, speak to our identity, to validate us. We step into our fears and accept "hardship as discipline

Until a man learns to deal with the fact that life is hard, he will spend his days chasing the wrong thing, using all his energies trying to make life comfortable, soft, nice, and that is no way for any man to spend his life.

The years have simply reconciled us to the fact that we are all here for the transformation.

But a wound unfelt is a wound unhealed.

The story of your life is the story of the long and brutal assault on your heart by the one who knows what you could be and fears it.

The warrior learns to master the art of holding fast to dreams while accepting the rigors of becoming the kind of man who can be entrusted with those dreams;

Adventure requires something of us, puts us to the test. Though we may fear the test, at the same time we yearn to be tested, to discover that we have what it takes.

Salvation is a process, not an event.

The beauty is that as you become more whole, you can become holier. And as you become holier, you can become more whole.

Sorrow is not a stranger to any of us, though only a few have learned that is is not our enemy either.

The nearest anyone can come to finding himself at any given age is to find a story that somehow tells him about himself.

must live maturely, knowing that whatever else is happening, we must preserve the relationship if we would find our way.

So you turn from your independence and all the ways you either charge at life or shrink from it; this may be one of the most basic and the most crucial ways you repent.

The secret of Christianity is something else altogether—the life of Christ in you. Allowing his life to become your life. His revolution is not self-transformation, but his transformation of you, from the inside out, as you receive his life and allow him to live through you. Vine, branch. Anything else is madness.

Don't let your experience of God up to this point limit what you might enjoy with him in the coming years.

Do not pray for easy lives my friends, pray to be stronger man!

The rising tide lifts all the boats.

The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardner objected that the tree was slow growing and wouldn't reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!