Quotes About Growth

We usually focus on what we're doing or where we're going, but God's primary concern is who we're becoming in the process.

La diferencia entre donde estás y donde Dios te quiere podría ser esa dolorosa decisión que te niegas a tomar».

Most of us overestimate what we can accomplish in two years, but we underestimate what we can accomplish in ten years.

Who you become is determined by how you pray.

Instead of exclusively focusing on what's wrong and trying to fix it, you identify what's right and try to replicate it. Appreciative inquiry is playing to people's strengths. It's catching people doing things right. It's celebrating what you want to see more of. And it's bragging about people behind their backs.

The same is true spiritually. Until kids get into the driver's seat, they won't know how to get anywhere. What do I mean? You can pray for them their entire lives, but if you never let them pray, they're just along for the ride. They won't know how to get anywhere in prayer.

Our potential is directly proportional to our prayer life. It is the single greatest indicator of our success in any endeavor.

If you want God to do something new in you, you cannot keep doing the same old thing. You have to do something different.

the tiny mustard seed contains all the nutrients you need to survive. It's packed with vitamins B1, B6, C, E, and K. It's a source of calcium, iron, magnesium, phosphorus, potassium, selenium, and zinc. Faith is a lot like that. It doesn't look like much, but we never know what it can become. A little faith goes a long way; in fact, a little faith will last an eternity.

if you keep sowing the right seeds, the harvest of blessing will come in God's time, in God's way!

God often uses us at our point of greatest incompetence.

How much happier you would be, how much more of you there would be, if the hammer of a higher God could smash your small cosmos. G.K. CHESTERTON

Before going wherever God wants to take you next, is there some place you need to go back to? Sometimes the way forward is backward. "The farther backward you can look," said Winston Churchill, "the farther forward you can see."3

Qué sucedería si enfocaras tus oraciones en una cosa por una persona durante un mes o un año? Solo hay una manera de averiguarlo: haz tu propio experimento de oración.

the reason many of us get stuck in the six cages—the cage of responsibility, the cage of routine, the cage of assumptions, the cage of guilt, the cage of failure, and the cage of fear—is for one simple reason: We want God to do something new while we keep doing the same old thing.

Celebrate what you want to see more of. That's one way to fan into flame the gift of God.

you can either avoid making mistakes and play not to lose, or you can make the most of every opportunity and play to win.

1. Do the best you can with what you have where you are. Success is not circumstantial. We usually focus on what we're doing or where we're going, but God's primary concern is who we're becoming in the process. We talk about "doing" the will of God, but the will of God has much more to do with "being

Your ability to see failure as a necessary stepping stone directly correlates with your ability to dream bigger and dream better.

truth is, part of me is every age. I'm a three-year-old, I'm a five-year-old, I'm a thirty-seven-year-old, I'm a fifty-year-old. I've been through all of them, and I know what it's like. I delight in being a child when it's appropriate to be a child. I delight in being a wise old man when it's appropriate to be a wise old man. Think of all I can be! I am every age, up to my own.23

We tend to view the goal as the goal, but in God's economy, the process is the goal. It's not about what we're doing at all; it's about who we're becoming in the process.

One of the mistakes we make as parents and as leaders is this: we do everything within our power to create emotional and relational and spiritual biospheres. We avoid conflict. We mitigate risk. We minimize discomfort. We sidestep sacrifice. Then we wonder why people grow to a certain stature and stop. We wonder why leaders fall.

Si quieres que Dios haga algo nuevo, no puedes seguir haciendo siempre lo mismo. Tienes que atreverte a ser diferente, lo que incluye escuchar de manera diferente. De eso se trata aprender estos siete lenguajes de Dios. ¡Que empiece la fiesta!

Minimum risk equals minimum satisfaction.