Quotes about Growth
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.
— John Eldredge
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