Quotes About Growth

If you set out to build the church, there is no guarantee you will make disciples. It is far more likely that you will create consumers who depend on the spiritual services that religious professionals provide.

Effective discipleship builds the church, not the other way around. We need to understand the church as the effect of discipleship and not the cause.

We need leaders who will step out of "managing church" and make discipling others their primary objective.

We don't have A "missional" problem. We Have A discipleship Problem.

IF THERE'S ANYTHING ANY OF US SHOULD BECOME GREAT AT, IT'S MAKING DISCIPLES WHO CAN MAKE DISCIPLES.

Striving for perfection is not foolish, but assuming you have achieved it most certainly is.

There's always room to be someone else, and there's always somewhere people will be willing to let the past slide." He

In 1997 I began working as an assistant professor at Caltech, and I realized that I didn't really know what I was doing.

But as I had learned earlier, the trick was not to figure out how not to be stupid, the trick was to be smart instead.

Chapter Seven RAINING = POURING

EDUCATION, Education, Your Education Never Stops.

Investing in real estate is by far, the biggest common denominator of millionaires, multimillionaires, and megamillionaires and billionaires.

Like you, I honestly believe Knowledge Is Powerful and your learning NEVER stops.

Rowing Slow is certainly different thinking.

In order to find yourself you need to get lost in the forest of life.

We all have a path to take; sometimes it's hidden under the weeds, so you might have to work a little.

The one thing all famous authors, world class athletes, business tycoons, singers, actors, and celebrated achievers in any field have in common is that they all began their journeys when they were none of these things. Yet still, they began their journeys.

There are no tough times, hard knocks, or challenges that aren't laden with emeralds, rubies, and diamonds for those who see them through.

When just starting out on a new journey it's only natural to feel vulnerable. After all it may seem that you have much to lose. But may I remind you that never again at any other point in the same journey will you have so much to gain.

Life's adventures are only possible because of life's challenges.

Just do your best; it'll always be enough. And leave the past to your biographers.

Life is not meant to be hard so that you can be happy beyond it. The happy "ending," therefore, comes with finally understanding those tricky areas you move through while you are alive. The key is that you do indeed need to move through them and not "stop reading at the scary parts"; you must prevail, hang on, and keep trucking to emerge on the other side of whatever the tricky area was.

Where you are is never who you are.

You are not meant to bear that which you find unpleasant; you are meant to change it.