Quotes about Growth

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.

God can prevail and bear wonderful fruit from an unequally yoked couple as we will see, even though their lives are often more complicated than they had to be.

Having our minds sanctified is an ongoing, lifelong process, but absolutely nothing will have a greater harvest in your life. So many people try to get hold of their emotions, but they don't realize the emotions are usually regulated by the mind. If we don't start thinking differently, we will never feel differently.

If anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a mature man who is also able to control his whole body. James 3:2

Our marriages were meant to be alive, not dead. Is your marriage more like romance or roadkill?

Have you too quickly decided that what you have done or what you are doing is all you'll ever do?

God desires to change us from the inside out—renewing our minds, starving our self-destructive tendencies, and teaching us to form new habits.

He began rebuilding me from the inside out so I could teach harder lessons but with a softer spirit.

Do you believe only because I told you I saw you under the fig tree? You will see greater things than this. John 1:50