Quotes About Growth

you become like the treasure that you seek.

Remember, waiting isn't just about what you are hoping for at the end of the wait, but also about what you will become as you wait.

For students who have not been required to confess that it is easier to learn theology then live it, it is tempting to think maturity is more a matter of knowing in a matter of living

maturity is about how you live your life. It is possible to be theologically astute and be very immature. It is possible to be biblically literate and be in need of significant spiritual growth.

It is a fundamental denial of your humanity to narrow the size of your life to the size of your own existence,

This side of heaven good marriages are good marriages because the people in those marriages are committed to doing daily the things that keep their marriages good. Things go wrong when couples think they have reached the point when they can retire from their marital work and chill out, lie back, and slide.

When someone who knows you points out a sin, a weakness, or a failure, are you thankful?

Change is about learning what is right, acknowledging that it is right, confessing that you have been wrong, committing to a new way of living, and seeking the help you need to do it. (66)

Here's how gospel growth works: you cannot grieve what you do not see, you cannot confess what you haven't grieved, and you can't repent of what you haven't confessed.

God has chosen to let you live in this fallen world because he plans to employ the difficulties of it to continue and complete his work in you.

Joyful, perseverant obedience only ever grows in the soil of worship.

In grace, he leads you where you didn't plan to go in order to produce in you what you couldn't achieve on your own.

successful parenting is not about achieving goals (that you have no power to produce) but about being a usable and faithful tool in the hands of the One who alone is able to produce good things in your children.

Midlife doesn't introduce you to a new you; it forces you to admit who you have been all along.

Change begins at the level of the heart.

the struggle of midlife is fundamentally rooted in the idolatries of the heart.

Let yourself be humbled by how little you know and how few things you are able to do.

God is at work, taking people who instinctively speak for themselves and transforming them into people who effectively speak for him.

Change is about learning what is right, acknowledging that it is right, confessing that you have been wrong, committing to a new way of living, and seeking the help you need to do

But it must be said that maturity is not merely something you do with your mind. No, maturity is about how you live your life. It is possible to be theologically astute in yet very immature. It is possible be biblically literate and in need of significant spiritual growth.

Self-control is a fruit of his work.

None of us is yet a grace graduate, but we're satisfied. We all give evidence that we still need to grow, but we're satisfied. And because we are satisfied, we are resistant to the grace that is our only hope.

All their commitments to change have been subverted by the one thing they seem unwilling to do: take the focus off the other and put it on themselves. Here is the point: no change takes place in a marriage that does not begin with confession.

They were convinced that they had made the mistake of marrying a messed-up person; they were convinced that the other had made them do things they would not otherwise have done; and they were convinced that they had no power to make the other change, although they had tried.