Quotes about Growth

Many, many of the people who are identified as Christians have never been invited to become a disciple of Jesus. We don't have discipleship evangelism, but we need to have it because of the multitudes of people who are ready to go, who just need to understand and see and have the invitation to become disciples of Jesus. That's the way we have to go forward.

Spiritual formation is a matter of reworking all aspects of the self.

But the final step in becoming a disciple is decision. We become a life student of Jesus by deciding.

Lord, when we are wrong, make us willing to change, and when we are right, make us easy to live with!

The focus of spiritual formation is the formation of our spirit.

Heroism, generally, is totally out of place in the spiritual life, until we grow to the point at which it would never be thought of as heroism anyway.

What God gets out of our lives—and, indeed, what we get out of our lives—is simply the person we become.

God both develops and, for our good, tests our character by leaving us to decide. He calls us to responsible citizenship in his kingdom by saying—in effect or in reality—as often as possible, "My will for you in this case is that you to decide on your own".

Anyone who is not a continual student of Jesus, and who nevertheless reads the great promises of the Bible as if they were for him or her, is like someone trying to cash a check on another person's account. At best, it succeeds only sporadically.

Great part of our growth includes disengaging from the expectations of others.

The governing assumption today, among professing Christians, is that we can be "Christians" forever and never become disciples.

If we are to be transformed, the body must be transformed, and that is not accomplished by talking at it.