Quotes about Growth

I assure you that some of the most awesome things God has ever done for me have come out of the most awful things I'd done to myself.

Beloved, are you being sifted? Has God permitted the enemy to launch a full-scale attack against you? God knows what He's doing. He isn't looking the other way, and He's not being mean to you. Maybe this is the only way He can get you to attend to the old so He can do something new. Grab onto Him for dear life! Give Him full reign to remove anything in you that needs to go. Hasten the end of the process. Sift, dear one. Sift!

Make no excuses. Rationalize nothing. Blame no one. Humble yourself.

God is thoroughly committed to finishing the masterpiece He started in us. And that process means one major thing: change.

The trick to dealing with criticism is letting it do it's good work but forbidding it to demoralize and destroy or to embitter.

My Father is glorified by this: that you produce much fruit and prove to be My disciples. John 15:8

Had you been a spectator during only the first three days of creation, you might not have judged it as good. What good are seed-bearing plants with no sun for photosynthesis? In His wisdom God knew the work was good because He knew what was coming next. He knows what's coming next for you. That's why He can judge His work in you as good. Give God room to be completely creative. Meet with Him daily as He unfolds the plan in perfect order. He's really good at what He does.

faith unchallenged ordinarily remains unchanged.

Be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may discern what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God. Romans 12:2

We're all looking for a quick fix, but God is after lasting change—a lifestyle of Christianity.

A seed needs planting in order to grow. It needs patience. If the seed was cast from the hand of God, he will surely sprout it, in his time, in his way. If it came from good human intentions, consider it no waste. It was a mortal's vocalized belief that you have something to offer, and while that person may prove mistaken about the precise form, that faith can act as fertilizer to the soil.

But for those who resist insisting on idyllic circumstances and faultless people, new beginnings can be had.