Quotes About Growth

The spiritual disciplines are art forms. Your first prayer will probably look like a kindergartener's painting. Of course, God still puts it on His refrigerator! But if you keep practicing prayer, your faith will become fluent. Living a Spirit-led life is a steep learning curve. It takes time—and by time, I mean decades, not days. You have to grow in the spiritual disciplines little by little. That's how you go from strength to strength. You keep benchmarking

Exponential progression is compound doubling. Four times four equals sixteen.

remind them that their failures don't define who they are!

Journaling is one of the most overlooked and undervalued spiritual disciplines. In my estimation, it's on a par with praying, fasting, and meditating. It's the way we document what God is doing in our lives.

The goal of marriage is not happiness, it is holiness...There is no mechanism whereby God can sanctify a person more than having them live in close proximity to another imperfect person. ...Our fundamental problem is that we are selfish. Marriage is the means whereby God eradicates our selfishness because it is not about "me" anymore, i t is about "we.

éxito es el resultado del fracaso bien administrado.

True knowledge should not produce pride; it should produce humility...Because the more you know, the more you know how much you don't know.

Learning is the heart of discipleship. You can't just take up your cross daily. You need to take up the Bible every day.

Luke 2:52: May you grow in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man.

The defining moments will double as the scariest decisions.

If you take thirty linear steps, you're ninety feet from where you started. But if you take thirty exponential steps, you've circled the earth twenty-six times!2 Faith isn't linear. Faith is exponential.

Here's the point: God is in the résumé-building business. He is always using past experiences to prepare us for future opportunities. But those God-given opportunities often come disguised as man-eating lions. And how we react when we encounter those lions will determine our destiny. We can cower in fear and run away from our greatest challenges. Or we can chase our God-ordained destiny by seizing the God-ordained opportunity.

Part of what academics do is generate ideas and teach. The other, perhaps more important part, is to play the role of "the Bu*l*hit Police." Our job is to look at the ideas and plans interested parties put forward to solve our collective problems and see whether or not they pass the sniff test. Austerity as a route to growth and as the correct response to the aftermath of a financial crisis does not pass the sniff test.

The ancient wisdom of the masters says that even a mighty oak was once a nut like you.

When we suffer, God empowers us to face the worst and become our best.

I heard my name associated with the Peter Pan syndrome more than once. But really, what's so wrong with Peter Pan? Peter Pan flies. He is a metaphor for dreams and faith.

He was thirteen that year, the age when children splinter off and abandon the old loves.

I still work hard to know my business. I'm continuously looking for ways to improve all my companies, and I'm always selling. Always.

Being rich is a good thing. Not just in the obvious sense of benefitting you and your family, but in the broader sense. Profits are not a zero sum game. The more you make, the more of a financial impact you can have.

Love, love, love.you have to ove, and if you don't get love right, you have to move on and forgive.

Ability is inborn, but only intense study brings out its potential. It takes endurance.

The preaching of the Word must be absolutely central. Sound, expositional preaching is often the fountainhead of growth in a church.

A preacher can always improve, no matter how gifted he is.

As long as quick numerical growth remains the primary indicator of church health, the truth will be compromised. Instead, churches must once again begin measuring success not in terms of numbers but in terms of fidelity to the Scriptures.