Quotes about Growth

Blossoming flowers look beautiful before they're cut or picked, but without soil or water they wither more quickly than grass.

Premature praise is false praise. Praise is our end but not our beginning. We begin our lives crying, not smiling and cooing and thanking our parents for bringing us into this lovely world full of dry diapers and sweet milk and warm flesh. We kick and flail. We yell and weep. We have the popularization of a kind of religion that, instead of training people to the sacrificial life after the pattern of our Lord, seduces them into having fun on weekends.

But if you're content to be simply yourself, you will become more than yourself.

David's isn't an ideal life but an actual life.

Maturity requires the integration, not the amputation, of what we have received through our conception and birth, our infancy and schooling.

Perseverance does not mean "perfection." It means that we keep going. We do not quit when we find that we are not yet mature and there is a long journey still before us.

The state of the economy is not the issue when it comes to growing a business. The relevant questions are always: 'What business are you in? Furthermore, is it adapting to the times?'

Christianity and Islam are today the most numerous and fastest growing religions globally. Together they encompass more than half of humanity. Consequence: both are here to stay.

I'd like to grow up and be beautiful. I know it doesn't matter, but it doesn't hurt.

The toppling of idols - even respectable, admired, best-practice, fastest-growing idols - is always the road to liberation.

The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.

I embrace the imperfections and celebrate them.