Quotes About Growth

Forgiveness is only necessary when first there's blame.

It always works for you! Every day you get closer; every day it gets easier!

Welcome, child," he said. "Aslan," said Lucy, "you're bigger." "That is because you are older, little one," answered he. "Not because you are?" "I am not. But every year you grow, you will find me bigger.

So much of our teaching on what it means to follow Jesus depends on getting people to do 'spiritual' disciplines: Bible reading, solitude, fasting, service, prayer--these are all necessary and vitally important disciplines. But they are not the only ways we express spirituality, nor are they the only disciplines that are spiritual in nature.

Scripture teaches and assumes that all issues are spiritual issues and all disciplines are spiritual disciplines. This is the key to spiritual growth: the recognition that all aspects of my everyday life can be done for the glory of God and used by him to shape me more and more into the image of God.

Walking with Jesus (otherwise known as discipleship) becomes not a matter of learning to do a bunch of new religious things; rather, it means doing the things I have always done but doing them differently.

The more we grow, the longer we walk with Him, the bigger Jesus should get.

How does God grow people? Often by reminding them how big he is and how small we are. By introducing mystery and tension and difficulty into life so that we might be forced to move beyond trusting our faith and religious systems to actually trusting him.

In the reverse economy of Jesus, the things that break us, God inverts to shape us.

But it's like anything, the more time you give it, the better it gets.

I find myself whispering an apology to the person I used to be.

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Extraordinary things can happen to ordinary people like you and me, but only if we open ourselves up enough to let them.

Mike Greenberg

The most important aspect of being in an innovative environment is not being afraid to fail.

Leadership is an ever-evolving position.

I think some parents now look at a youngster failing as the final thing. It's a process, and failure is part of the process. I would like it if the teacher and the parents would connect more. I think that used to be, but we're losing a little bit of that right now.

I had a really bad temper, when I was growing up. Sport helped me channel that temper into more positive acts.

Each cycle—and there may be many cycles between initial examination and launch—isn't expected to produce a complete product, but add to the quality of understanding and to flesh out the feature set.

Always be moving forward. Never stop investing. Never stop improving. Never stop doing something new. The moment you stop improving your organization, it starts to die. Make it your goal to be better each and every day, in some small way

But maybe you could get better at missing things—and people—with enough practice.

Easy Never Produces Excellence

Treat others as if they were what they ought to be and you will help them become what they are capable of becoming." Goethe "No one needs love more than the person we find difficult to like." Mike Moore

Each relationship nurtures a strength or weakness within you.