Quotes About Growth

As the Spirit of the Lord works within us, we become more and more like him and reflect his glory even more." 16

We are products of our past, but we don't have to be prisoners of it.

A. W. Tozer said, "The reason why many are still troubled, still seeking, still making little forward progress is because they haven't yet come to the end of themselves. We're still trying to give orders, and interfering with God's work within us.

No, that trauma you faced was not easy. And God wept that it hurt you so; But it was allowed to shape your heart So that into his likeness you'd grow.

Christlikeness is not produced by imitation, but by inhabitation.

No discipline is enjoyable while it is happening — it's painful! But afterward there will be a peaceful harvest of right living for those who are trained in this way" (Hebrews 12:11 NLT).

God changes caterpillars into butterflies, sand into pearls and coal into diamonds using time and pressure. He's working on you, too.

La Biblia no se nos dio para aumentar nuestro conocimiento, sino para cambiar nuestra vida».

You are an old soul," he said. "It can't be easy. But your life is still ahead of you. It must be lived.

A boy grows and marries and leaves. He belongs to another woman, but a girl always belongs to her mother.

her. It was a cruel thing, trying to sprout and find the light of day. It was truth. She wasn't sure that she wanted it.

Sylvie considered that children should be toughened up early, the better to take the blows in later life.

the grain had entered the shell (Sylvie's own metaphoric stance) and the pearl that would be Edward Beresford Todd began to grow until he was revealed into the sunshine that came before the Great War and lay happily for hours on end in his pram with nothing but a silver hare dangling from the pram hood for company. His

Viola hadn't seen Sunny for nearly ten years and in the interim he had turned into a complete human being. ("Perhaps the two things aren't unrelated," Bertie said.)

He never imagined, when his daughter was small and infinitely, eternally lovable, that he would ever develop a combative relationship with her.

What is the deepest loss that you have suffered? If drinking is bitter, change yourself to wine. —from Sonnets to Orpheus II, 29 Rainer Maria Rilke

Those times when I couldn't stand what I was, and I didn't know how I could possibly be something else.

Do whatever it takes to make your life more worth living...just don't be mean.

Identities aren't meant to be permanent. They're like cars: they take us from one place to another. We work, travel, and seek adventure in them until they break down beyond repair. At that point, living well means finding a new model that better suits us for a new moment.

Boys are unpredictable. This maybe not be news, but I'm starting to think it's one of the best things about them.

Without stories, how do we know who we are? How can we imagine who we can be?

The city atmosphere certainly has improved her. Some way she doesn't seem like the same woman.

Well, for instance, when I left her today, she put her arms around me and felt my shoulder blades, to see if my wings were strong, she said.

He could see plainly that she was not herself. That is, he could not see that she was becoming herself [...].