Quotes About Growth

Endure suffering as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is not disciplined by his father?

If you do not experience discipline like everyone else, then you are illegitimate children and not true sons.

Our fathers disciplined us for a short time as they thought best, but God disciplines us for our good, so that we may share in His holiness.

No discipline seems enjoyable at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it yields a harvest of righteousness and peace to those who have been trained by it.

See to it that no one falls short of the grace of God, and that no root of bitterness springs up to cause trouble and defile many.

Consider it pure joy, my brothers, when you encounter trials of many kinds,

because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance.

Allow perseverance to finish its work, so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.

Then after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.

Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and every expression of evil, and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save your souls.

For anyone who hears the word but does not carry it out is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror,

But the one who looks intently into the perfect law of freedom, and continues to do so—not being a forgetful hearer, but an effective doer—he will be blessed in what he does.

You see that his faith was working with his actions, and his faith was perfected by what he did.

We all stumble in many ways. If anyone is never at fault in what he says, he is a perfect man, able to control his whole body.

My brothers, can a fig tree grow olives, or a grapevine bear figs? Neither can a salt spring produce fresh water.

Be patient, then, brothers, until the Lordís coming. See how the farmer awaits the precious fruit of the soil—how patient he is for the fall and spring rains.

Again he prayed, and the heavens gave rain, and the earth yielded its crops.

As obedient children, do not conform to the passions of your former ignorance.

Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation,

you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery trial that has come upon you, as though something strange were happening to you.

Grace and peace be multiplied to you through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.

For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith virtue; and to virtue, knowledge;

and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness;