Quotes about Growth

So you can't demand the broken to live as if they were whole. Discipline is not the issue; apply discipline and you'll make it worse. What is needed is healing.

The years have simply reconciled us to the fact that we are all here for the transformation.

But a wound unfelt is a wound unhealed.

The story of your life is the story of the long and brutal assault on your heart by the one who knows what you could be and fears it.

Adventure requires something of us, puts us to the test. Though we may fear the test, at the same time we yearn to be tested, to discover that we have what it takes.

Salvation is a process, not an event.

The beauty is that as you become more whole, you can become holier. And as you become holier, you can become more whole.

Sorrow is not a stranger to any of us, though only a few have learned that is is not our enemy either.

The nearest anyone can come to finding himself at any given age is to find a story that somehow tells him about himself.

Must live maturely, knowing that whatever else is happening, we must preserve the relationship if we would find our way.

So you turn from your independence and all the ways you either charge at life or shrink from it; this may be one of the most basic and the most crucial ways you repent.

The secret of Christianity is something else altogether—the life of Christ in you. Allowing his life to become your life. His revolution is not self-transformation, but his transformation of you, from the inside out, as you receive his life and allow him to live through you. Vine, branch. Anything else is madness.