Quotes About Growth

Compare this week in your spiritual life with the same week last year to see how God has called you to a higher level. We have all been brought to see from a higher viewpoint. Never allow God to show you a truth which you do not instantly begin to live up to, applying it to your life. Always work through it, staying in its light.

Your growth in grace is not measured by the fact that you haven't turned back, but that you have an insight and understanding into where you are spiritually. Have you heard God say, "Come up higher," not audibly on the outer level, but to the innermost part of your character?

First Peter 4:12 says, "Beloved, do not think it strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened to you . . . ." Rise to the occasion—do what the trial demands of you. It does not matter how much it hurts as long as it gives God the opportunity to manifest the life of Jesus in your body.

many of us prefer to stay at the entrance to the Christian life, instead of going on to create and build our soul in accordance with the new life God has placed within us.

as long as our eyes are focused on our own personal holiness, we will never even get close to the full reality of redemption.

then God withdrew His conscious blessings in order to teach you to walk by faith. You are worth far more to Him now than you were in your days of conscious delight and thrilling testimony.

Es gibt eine Art von Zauberei, die man mühsam erlernen muß: Das ist die, wie sie im Koraktor steht, Zeichen für Zeichen und Formel um Formel. Und dann gibt es eine, die wächst einem aus der Tiefe des Herzens zu: aus der Sorge um jemanden, den man lieb hat. Ich weiß, daß das schwer zu begreifen ist - aber du solltest darauf vertrauen, Krabat.

Like life, and love, learning is not a race to the finish, but a voyage to the start.

Every child has to raise itself.

Es posible que nos separemos dentro de poco, que no volvamos a vernos en mucho tiempo. Pero si un día volvemos a reunimos, y recordamos esta noche y las horas que hemos pasado juntos, no habremos perdido "aquello" que nos ha unido. Estaremos más maduros frente a la vida, y podremos volver a unir los hilos que se han roto.

A man's real nature is never altered by education.

The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses.

We can learn even from our enemies.

Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.

Time is generally the best doctor.

By faithful study of the nobler arts, our nature's softened, and more gentle grows.

Take rest a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.

Perfer et obdura, dolor hic tibi proderit olim. (Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.)

Fas est ab hoste doceri. One should learn even from one's enemies.

Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all." "Be patient and tough; one day this pain will be useful to you.

Saepe creat molles aspera spina rosas" - "Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses

Take rest; a field that has rested gives a beautiful crop.

Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

I loved being a dad. It's just so much fun watching these little people you've brought into the world as they develop and grow up.