Quotes about Development

your own. You have probably tried to change many times and have failed to maintain the changes.

This next sentence is one of the most important spiritual truths you will ever learn: God develops the fruit of the Spirit in your life by allowing you to experience circumstances in which you're tempted to express the exact opposite quality! Character development always involves a choice, and temptation provides that opportunity.

To make it really clear and simple, let's call this movement across history we see in passages like the ones we just looked at from Exodus and Deuteronomy clicks. What we see is God meeting people at the click they're at, and then drawing them forward. When they're at F, God calls them to G. When we're at L, God calls us to M. And if we're way back there at A, God meets us way back there at A and does what God always does: invites us forward to B.

We are always in the endless process of figuring out our ikigai. Your ikigai is a web of work and family and play and how you spend your time, what you give your energies to, what you say "yes" to, what you say "no" to, what new challenges you take on, things that come your way that you never wanted or planned for or know what to do with— your ikigai is a work in progress because you are a work in progress.

It is your responsibility to stop listening to voices that hinder your ongoing growth and maturity.

Originality and initiative are what I ask for my country.

Every experience is a potential life lesson. Even if you don't appreciate it at the time, each struggle in the present is preparing you for something else in the future.

Life peels us like an onion and every layer is softer and sweeter.

No great advance has been made in science, politics, or religion without controversy.

Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

Life is a classroom -- only those who are willing to be lifelong learners will move to the head of the class.

You are what you are and where you are because of what has gone into your mind; you change what you are and where you are by changing what goes into your mind.