Quotes about Development

The unborn baby lies in a cage we call a womb. He has eyes but cannot use them, and a mouth that he has never eaten with. He has been innately equipped for a world he has not been exposed to. His innate instincts like sucking, seeing, walking, and sitting have never been utilized because no opportunity exists in his present safe and warm cocoon of development. He must be born and enter the world to discover the instincts imbued by his Creator.

my parents' ideals are good ones, and I support them to the highest. But my parents could only promote us to the levels to which they themselves had been exposed.

It's the nights that I cried myself to sleep and my tears crawled across the bridge of my nose that God most often used to develop me into the person I am today.

if you are the smartest person in a room, you are in the wrong room.

Routines without ongoing assessment lead to stagnation and mediocrity.

We may not like to admit it, but what if our crushing is necessary in order for our potential to be fulfilled?

entrée to your future. Start reading journals and blogs and books that you've

Being planted and being buried may feel similar—if not identical—but the intention leads to very different outcomes.

There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.

We were still at the age when girls are years older than guy, and the guys grow up by doing their best when the girls need them to.

Spiritual formation is for everyone. Just as there is an 'outer you' that is being formed and shaped all the time, like it or not, by accident or on purpose, so there is an 'inner you.' You have a spirit. And it's constantly being shaped and tugged at: by what you hear and watch and say and read and think and experience.

Evil is an attack against human spiritual development and enlightenment. All evil, badness, neurosis - it has one motive and one motive only, which is to destroy - to destroy your chance of arising above yourself.