Quotes about Growth

No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.

The mind is slow to unlearn what it learnt early.

People always want to define you by what you do. I started saying: 'i am not too concerned with what i'm going to do. I am more interested in who i am becoming. I want to be a lover of God and people.

de Chardin said, "Above all, trust in the slow work of God. We are quite naturally impatient in everything to reach the end without delay. We would like to skip the intermediate stages. We are impatient of being on the way to something unknown, something new. And yet, it is the law of all progress that it is made by passing through some stages of instability — and that it may take a very long time. Above all, trust in the slow work of God, our loving vine-dresser.

My critics are my best teachers, but only when they will talk with me, not at me. Unfortunately

As Don Everts says in his book Jesus with Dirty Feet, "Referring to the church as a building is like referring to people as two-by-fours.

The more I get to know Jesus, the more trouble he seems to get me into.

I truly understand that there is a lesson in everything that happens to us. So I tried not to spend my time asking "Why did this happen to me?" but trying to figure out why I had chosen this.

We can never be like lillies in the garden unless we have spent time as bulbs in the dark, totally ignored.

Things that seem bad at the time are really blessings.

You can plant a church and grow a church. That's not that hard to do, but it's harder to be a viable source of transformation in a city or your time or space.

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.