Quotes About Growth

We have got to make disciples. Fun nights and pizza nights are not going to sustain us.

Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one's innocence with the loss of one's prejudices.

Religion teaches us that our lives here on earth are to be used for transformation.

Conventional names define a person's past: ancestry, ethnicity, nationality, religion. I am not who I was ten years ago and certainly not who I will be in twenty years

The contraction of theological influence has been at once the best measure, and the essential condition of intellectual advance.

For many, religion has to do with what we are allowed to do and not allowed to do. In the end, that doesn't bear fruit.

As the grace grows nearer my theology is growing strangely simple, and it begins and ends with Christ as the only Savior of the lost.

Religion is being and becoming. Religion is the manifestation of the Divinity already in man.

Religion promotes the divine discontent within oneself, so that one tries to make oneself a better person and draw oneself closer to God.

Lord, make us mindful of the little things that grow and blossom in these days to make the world beautiful for us.

When it comes to religion today, we tend to be long on butterflies and short on cocoons. Somehow we're going to have to relearn that the deep things of God don't come suddenly.

God wants to produce the character of Christ in our lives because he knows that the more we become like him, the more fulfilled we will be.

the fastest-growing brand of religion is of the magical 'name it and claim it' variety, in which the deity exists only to meet one's immediate, self-identified needs.

Step by step, one by one, higher and higher. Step by step, rung by rung, climbing Jacob's ladder.

Now, with God's help, I shall become myself.

Heaven plants a special seed, and we must have faith.

I think were all a part of something. We're striving (to be) more than we are...I really don't only see religion as being for people who are perfect. They've got it all set. And I'm not like that.

The real test of any church or religion is the kind of men it makes.

Persecution is as necessary to religion as pruning to an orchard.

Our banking system grew byaccident; and wherever something happens byaccident, it becomes a religion.

The avoidance of that which causes you pain does not produce enlightenment. It produces avoidance. Religion is the avoidance of pain and suffering.

[L]ife is more than just steering a course around pain.

The challenges are illusions, but necessary ones to determine if you can see through them.

People can change their external lives with religion, but a lasting internal change only happens through a daily relationship with Jesus.