Quotes about Growth
If a man is ever to find out who he is and what he's here for, he has got to take that journey for himself. He has got to get his heart back.
— John Eldredge
Don't let your experience of God up to this point limit what you might enjoy with him in the coming years.
— John Eldredge
Do not pray for easy lives my friends, pray to be stronger man!
— John F. Kennedy
The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardner objected that the tree was slow growing and wouldn't reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!
— John F. Kennedy
The greater our knowledge increases the greater our ignorance unfolds.
— John F. Kennedy
Do not pray for easy times, pray to be stronger. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers, pray for powers equal to your tasks.
— John F. Kennedy
To obtain the gift of holiness is the work of a life.
— John Henry Newman
The Via Media has slept in libraries; it is a substitute of infancy for manhood.
— John Henry Newman
Call the world, if you please, the vale of Soul-making. Then you will find out the use of the world.
— John Keats
I am a violent man who has learned not to be violent and regrets his violence.
— John Lennon
When I went to school they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down Happy. They told me I didn't understand the assignment and I told them they didn't understand life.
— John Lennon
We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.
— John Lennon