Quotes About Growth

It is no longer a question of a Christian going about to convert others to the faith, but of each one being ready to listen to the other and so to grow together in mutual understanding.

We all have two lives. The second one starts when we realize that we only have one

Our religion doesn't demand perfection but instead a manageable strive to better ourselves.

Prayer may not change things for you, but it for sure changes you for things.

Like true philosophers I've come to believe that religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown after proper education.

If your religion hasn't made you a better person, then it has failed you as a religion.

If we meet somebody who has never made a mistake, lets help them start a religion. Until then, were just going to meet other humans and help to make each other better.

It would be good for religion if many books that seem useful were destroyed. When there were not so many books and not so many arguments and disputes, religion grew more quickly than it has since.

First of all, our young must be strong. Religion will come afterwards.

Trouble is here. It is for a purpose. Use it for the purpose for which it was intended - to help you grow. Thank God for your troubles.

A religion that is small enough for our understanding would not be big enough for our needs.

A common religion is not possible for India, but a recognition of a common basis for all religions, and the growth of a liberal, tolerant spirit in religious matters, are possible.

I want to see people do more than simply raise their hand when they come to Christ. Where are the totally changed lives?

The Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men.

Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows.

We cannot be effective if we continue to cling to the old ways, the old strategies, the old assumptions.

gardening is something more than a pastime; it is a religion.

Your garden will reveal yourself.

Believing in religion is like believing that adulthood is the solution to childhood.

We have to assess: Are we making disciples along the way as we draw people to our churches?

Once God and grace move us to the second half of life, religion becomes a mystical matter, rather than a moral matter.

A garden is the best alternative therapy.

Do not feed children on maudlin sentimentalism or dogmatic religion; give them nature

Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.