Quotes about Development

In school you're rewarded for not making mistakes.

As a leader, you will gain a more complete picture of their work and become a better coach and mentor for it.

This A is not an expectation to live up to, but a possibility to live into.2

And that's what true leaders do. They unfold the lives of others and help them reach their God-given potential.

We are not empathetic creatures naturally, so we must work at it.

There are a great many "wetless" bathing suits worn at the seashore, but no one ever learns to swim in them. To plunge is the only way.

This process is a slow one, but one that will always bear fruit.

More than any other single thing, in any case, the practical irrelevance of actual obedience to Christ accounts for the weakened effect of Christianity in the world today, with its increasing tendency to emphasize political and social action as the primary way to serve God. It also accounts for the practical irrelevance of Christian faith to individual character development and overall personal sanity and well-being.

The intention of God is that we should each become the kind of person whom he can set free in his universe, empowered to do what we want to do. Just as we desire and intend this, so far as possible, for our children and others we love, so God desires and intends it for his children. But character, the inner directedness of the self, must develop to the point where that is possible.

In relation to spiritual disciplines, the most helpful distinction is the difference between trying to do something and training to do something.

To train means arranging our life around those practices that enable us to do what we cannot now do by direct effort. The point of training is to receive power, so we arrange our life around practices through which we get power.

The spiritual side of the human being, Christian and non-Christian alike, develops into the reality that it becomes, for good or ill.