Quotes about Growth

Strive for excellence, not perfection, because we don't live in a perfect world.

Our past may explain why we're suffering but we must not use it as an excuse to stay in bondage.

Don't just learn from God's Word, but believe it will change your life.

Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once to get over the fear of doing it. Twice to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.

Change isn't a scary thing. It's constant and inevitable.

We're all going to make mistakes; they're inevitable. It's what you do after these mistakes that matters.

I do think that travel can be part of a journey of inner maturation, but you've got to do it right.

I had nothing and lived in the most insignificant place.

The hurried can become unhurried. But it will not happen by trying alone, nor will it happen instantly. You will have to enter a life of training.

When you make a decision to forgive it's a decision that you have to make intellectually.

The spiritual life of individuals has to be extended both vertically to God and horizontally to other souls; and the more it grows in both directions, the less merely individual and therefore more truly personal it will become.

Do not suppose from this that your new career is to be perpetually supported by agreeable spiritual contacts, or occupy itself in the mild contemplation of the great world through which you move. True, it is said of the Shepherd that he carries the lambs in his bosom: but the sheep are expected to walk, and put up with the inequalities of the road, the bunts and blunders of the flock.