Quotes about Growth
Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page. Take up one hole more in the buckle if necessary, or let down one, according to circumstances; but on the first of January let every man gird himself once more, with his face to the front, and take no interest in the things that were and are past.
— Henry Ward Beecher
We are always on the anvil by trials God is shaping us for higher things.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Books are not men and yet they stay alive.
— Henry Ward Beecher
To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them — the whole leaf and root tribe.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Repentance is another name for aspiration.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Troubles are often the tools God fashions us for better things.
— Henry Ward Beecher
LORD strengthen me where I am too weak and weaken me where I am too strong!
— Leonard Ravenhill
God never intended His Church to be a refrigerator in which to preserve perishable piety. He intended it to be an incubator in which to hatch out converts. —F. LINCICOME
— Leonard Ravenhill
The greater the amount of knowledge you accumulate, the bigger your island gets, but the greater the shoreline of the unknown becomes. In short, the more you know, the more you know you don't know.
— Leonard Sweet
If you aren't smelling awful smells sometimes, then you're not where Jesus is.
— Leonard Sweet
A dream can be nurtured over years and years and then flourish rapidly. . . . Be patient. It will happen for you. Sooner or later, life will get weary of beating on you and holding the door shut on you, and then it will let you in and throw you a real party
— Les Brown