Quotes about Growth

Embrace the tension.

However high, wide, long, or deep your faith may grow through the years, always leave an ellipsis at every point of your spiritual compass. Anything attainable by human understanding is a mere shadow of the reality. Every time you grasp a new concept about God, try thinking, "He's this … and more.

Speaking the truth in love, let us grow in every way into Him who is the head—Christ. Ephesians 4:15

What could make a man stands taller than a newborn son?

So on those days when it seems like God is silent and you have nothing to show for your life besides dung and death, know that even those are not wasted. God is using even the messiest parts and the most painful and seemingly hopeless parts to get your soil ready. You, loved and chosen by God, have much good fruit yet to bear.

If yesterday's wimp is going to become tomorrow's warrior, something has to happen today.

Even if we have known Christ in a purely human way, yet now we no longer know Him like that. 2 Corinthians 5:16

Here's a rule of thumb for the thought life that will be a catalyst for victory in all parts of life: starve the flesh and feed the spirit.

Believing in Christ and believing Christ can be two very different things. We all begin with the former, but we certainly don't want to end there! We want to keep believing what Jesus says about Himself and His Father—and about us—until we see Him face to face.

What you must trust in these moments is that anything God breaks down is intended to build you up.

My reputation grows with every failure.

Raising or caring for children requires sacrifice and service, which, I believe, heals us from the destructive forces of self-centeredness.