Quotes about Growth

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.

Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves.

If you are not in the process of becoming the person you want to be, you are automatically engaged in becoming the person you don't want to be.

The church, for far too long, has been more interested in its seating capacity than in its sending capacity.

My views of the missionary object are, indeed, different from what they were when I was first set on fire by Buchanan's 'Star in the East' six years ago. But it does not always happen that a closer acquaintance with an object diminishes our attachment and preference.

Eternal vigilance is the price of eternal development.

The vigor and power and comfort of our spiritual life depends on our mortification of deeds of the flesh.

Giant oak trees... have deep root systems that can extend two-and-one-half times their height. Such trees rarely are blown down regardless of how violent the storms may be.

I've virtually grown up in the television industry.

Success means your options multiply. Size increases complexity, and complexity can confuse vision.

If you have a group of people come together around a vision for real discipleship, people who are committed to grow, committed to change, committed to learn, then a spiritual assessment tool can work.