Quotes about Growth

the idea (not mine: your great-grandfather's) being that even at eleven a man should already have behind him one year of paying for, assuming responsibility for, the space he occupied, the room he took up, in the world's (Jefferson, Mississippi's, anyway) economy.

The candle-buds opened their wide white flowers... Their scent spilled out into the air and took possession of the island.

The only way forward is to never look back.

There are two lives, the natural and the spiritual, and we must lose the one before we can participate in the other.

The greatest discovery of our generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. As you think, so shall you be.

Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.

Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

Annoying mishaps always seem to cluster around times of spiritual fruitfulness. That's not exactly coincidence.

God used it all. He used the hard times to draw her closer. He used the struggle to bring them together.

Prayer changes the person who prays.

There is nothing wrong with being poor; but there is everything wrong with remaining poor after you have discovered your riches in Christ.

No matter how deep we have gone, there is more.