Quotes about Growth

Hatred is a commodity I couldn't afford in prison. Too expensive then. Too expensive now... I couldn't live every day with that stuff bubbling up inside me.... Gage taught me that. He found me in a bad place. Picked me up. Showed me I had a choice. I couldn't change my circumstances, but I had a lot to say about who I was in the midst of them. And who I became. Gage helped me, showed me, how to lay it down.

Rightly or wrongly, I want you to spend your life making music where the angels sing along. Being a reflection. I think that'd be a life well spent. I failed to say that before now, and for that I'm sorry. If I may offer one excuse - I've never raised a son before. Please allow a few mistakes. I'm figuring this out as we go.

It is a flower that sprouts and grows when others pour water upon it. I think sometimes that I spent so much time worrying about how to protect and strengthen the flower—even going so far as to graft in a new stem and root system—that I forgot to simply water it.

A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.

Learning more truth is a poor and cheap substitute for stopping and putting into action the truth already learned

Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is the knowledge of our own ignorance.

I think a lot of people, even Christians, are willing to be satisfied with gaining lots and lots of biblical knowledge - and many people go to Bible studies and don't realize it isn't enough to know what's right, it's applying the information and the knowledge that you have.

But repentance isn't supposed to feel good. In fact, if it does, you're probably doing it wrong.

Climb a tree — it gets you closer to heaven.