Quotes About Growth

Marriage is more than finding the right person…it is being the right person!

A real friend is one who helps us to think our best thoughts, do our noblest deeds, and be our finest selves.

Let every hindrance to joy become the soil out of which joy blossoms.

We must pay a price if we are to become priceless.

Your ultimate goal for marriage is that both of you—as husband and wife—commit to keep growing spiritually.

The more time you spend with God, the more you will resemble Him.

The degree of our spiritual strength will be in direct proportion to the time we spend in God's Word.

God finds a way to weave even your mistakes into the fabric of a brighter future if you let Him.

If you want to grow spiritually, the place to start is with God.

Your better life is as close and as easy as making the choice to pick up your Bible each day, open it up, and let God speak to you.

Faith is not a hothouse plant that must be shielded from wind and rain, so delicate that it has to be protected, but it's like the sturdy oak which becomes stronger with every wind that blows upon it. An easy time weakens faith, while strong trials strengthen it.

Learn from the past, log the lessons from the past, but leave the past!

Amid the joy of raising children will be some of the hardest work you'll ever do.

I sit in the driver's seat concerning most of the structure of my every day, including growing in the Lord. I decide whether the things of the Lord are really that important to me…or not. I decide whether I will make the effort to grow…or not. I decide whether I will schedule in the time it takes to grow, to meet with God regularly, to stop, look, and listen to Him by reading my Bible…or not.

Nurture the qualities in yourself that you desire in your friends.

The ability to discern truth comes from learning, growing, and understanding the Bible.

God desires that we develop spiritual muscle so we are strong enough to be His kind of wife.

Remembering to forget the past allows you freedom from a past that holds back your Christian growth.

Wenn die Menschen ihren Lebensweg beschreiten, fängt es immer dann an schiefzulaufen, sobald sie den Teil ihrer selbst vernachlässigen, der ihren Geist nährt. Ohne diese Nahrung stirbt der Geist, und es ist Teil unserer Verantwortung für uns selbst, das nicht zuzulassen.

For Prudence was an entirely different child from the woebegone shrinking creature who had stood in the roadway outside the school. The tight little bud that was the real Prudence had steadily opened its petals in the sunshine of Kit's friendship and Hannah's gentle affection.

of the few young men and boys at the fort, now that she was too old for racing and climbing trees with them, she felt both shy and critical...

Miriam felt astonished at herself. It was a new thing for her to step out so independently. Somehow, in the past month a tough little root of determination had been growing in her. Whether it was strong enough to support the desperate plan she had undertaken she would soon find out.

You can measure the happiness of a marriage by the number of scars that each partner carries on their tongues, earned from years of biting back angry words.

Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation.