Quotes about Growth

You have to have faith that there is a reason you go through certain things. I can't say I'm glad to go through pain, but in a way one must, in order to gain courage and really feel joy.

Sometimes walking with God means learning truth requires means rethinking your entire life.

Conflict brings out the leader in us, transforms our lives from the mundane to the cosmic, and by God's grace forges us into more compassionate, selfless leaders.

Conflict in our stories isn't in the way; it is the way--to becoming better leaders, better image bearers, to creating a better story--to the fulfillment of the Story.

Education is about the only thing lying around loose in the world, and it's about the only thing a fellow can have as much of as he's willing to haul away.

In a dark place we find ourselves, and a little more knowledge lights our way.

All too often Christians look at morality from the negative viewpoint. Christian growth does not come from what we don't do. It is rather a product of what we actively do in our daily lives. The Christian ethic is a positive ethic, and the Christian life, as an expression of that ethic, is a positive, active existence.

What we discover is transforming grace (Romans 12:2) that leads Christians to "walk in newness of life" (Romans 6:4) and to avoid a life of sin (verses 1—14).

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

We ought not to look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dear-brought experience.

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though limits to our abilities do not exist.