Quotes about Growth

Everybody wants success in something, whether it's in work, love, play, finances, family, or an inner struggle. But success doesn't come instantly. Life has a process of rejecting you to test you and prepare you to win.

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.... [A]ccept the seasons of your heart, even as you have always accepted the seasons that pass over your fields....

Taking ownership for your decisions and your problems is the only way to ever become a healthy person.

You may have heard the expression "greater levels, greater devils." This typically implies that when you are promoted spiritually, you should expect more intense warfare in your life. Yet what we sometimes fail to realize is that when God promotes us, He also protects us.

How you manage your appetite for reward is vital to who you are becoming.

We received it by asking. This means that even very gifted people are not necessarily mature Christians. They may not even have good character. Therefore, the gifts of the Spirit do not validate our walk with God.

The goal of any gift of the Spirit is to build trust and help people grow in God. No gift of the Spirit should be used to destroy people's reputations, kill their passion for God or steal their identity.

The Holy Spirit rebuilds our "walls of salvation" by correcting our old, broken patterns of thinking and establishing new strongholds of truth that bring health and strength to every dimension of our beings.

Love is sunshine to the rose. It can't stop shinin' just because the bud begins to bloom.

We should not try to "get rid" of a neurosis, but rather to experience what it means, what it has to teach, what its purpose is.

No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.