Quotes About Growth

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up

Marriage is not a simple love affair, it's an ordeal, and the ordeal is the sacrifice of ego to a relationship in which two have become one

The West is different than where we came from. It's a land that demands strength of people. A land that tests courage. With the muscles in our backs and the brains in our heads, we can do whatever we want out here, and I intend to accept that challenge and grow strong enough to belong in this wild and rich land.

But I'm going to change, Gwen. I am. The West is different than where we came from. It's a land that demands strength of people. A land that tests courage.~ Deb

Nothing significant in the kingdom of God happens unless death occurs.

Growth comes in the aftermath of failure, not wild success.

We grow when the walls press in. We grow when life steals our control. We grow in darkness.

The more we love, the more it hurts, and the more we have to let go.

It's never easy letting go. But if we don't learn the art of relinquishment, we'll never move forward to embrace the new relationships God has for us.

Growth comes from God, to those with surrendered, yielded hearts.

When we have difficult relationships, God often uses them as gifts in our lives—to shape us, conform us to His Son, and make us gutsier and stronger.

I understand true life doesn't happen when I constantly gaze backwards, mulling over all the injustices others have done or I have done to others.

To become more like Jesus we must understand that the only growth we can be in charge of is our own.

The roadblocks to growth and joy come when we forget the bigness of God & instead make people bigger than He is.

As I look back over my mountains of growth and compare them to the molehills where I stagnated, community often made the difference.

So much growth can come in discord. The pain we walk through can become a catalyst to push us toward God.

Dear Jesus, I pray you will show me the importance of humbling myself like a little child. Instead of instructor today, help me put on the hat of "learner." Use my children, Lord, to teach me more about you. Use their words to point me to your Word. Use their freedom to infuse freedom into my heart.

We've had a terrible start—it doesn't mean we can't have a better ending.

I think that maybe forgiveness is like change - it comes in small steps. (256)

When you are perfect, is there anywhere else to go?

There are many words and definitions I have never lost. But some I am only just beginning to truly understand.

I'm not the farmer I claimed to be, but I hope I can make you fall in love with me again, this time as a prince, one day at a time. We've had a terrible start—it doesn't mean we can't have a better ending.

Do certain events in our lives leave a permanent mark, freezing a piece of us in time, and that becomes a touchstone that we measure the rest of our lives against?