Quotes about Growth
If God sees that my spiritual life will be furthered by giving the things for which I ask, then He will give them, but that is not the end of prayer. The end of prayer is that I come to know God Himself.
— Oswald Chambers
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
— George Bernard Shaw
Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body.
— Joseph Addison
Bloom where you are planted.
— Anonymous
Failure is a school in which the truth always grows strong.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon balls, and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said today.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is not a flower that opens, not a seed that falls into the ground, and not an ear of wheat that nods on the end of its stalk in the wind that does not preach and proclaim the greatness and the mercy of God to the whole world.
— Thomas Merton
Don't worry if your "you" is small and your rewards are few: Remember that the mighty oak was once a nut like you.
— Anonymous
Here's to the past. Thank God it's past!
— Anonymous
Then is then. Now is now. We must grow to learn the difference.
— Anonymous
One step and then another, and the longest walk is ended. One stitch and then another, and the longest rent is mended. One brick upon another, and the tallest wall is made. One flake and then another, and the deepest snow is laid.
— Anonymous
Take your needle, my child, and work at your pattern; it will come out a rose by and by. Life is like that; one stitch at a time taken patiently, and the pattern will come out all right, like embroidery.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.