Quotes about Growth

The more man learns, the less he knows.

I missed the joy of seeing our children grow and change. I thank God for watching over them during those years.

Our ministries are strengthened, sometimes more than we realize, by our devotional life.

Just as America has grown and prospered within the framework of our Constitution, so Christianity has flourished and spread according to the laws set forth in the Bible.

God gave us our children so we could prepare them to become adults.

Mountaintops are for views and inspiration, but fruit is grown in the valleys.

God knew that children grow and mature best in a stable, loving family, and this was one reason He gave marriage to us.

Many children today are growing up without discipline. As they become adults and the discipline of job or family demands are placed upon them, they do not know how to cope . . .children need discipline to be useful members of society. Likewise, God's children need discipline to be useful members of His family.

Trials and difficulties may assail the life of a believer, but they also have the ability to remold his character and banish from his life those impurities which might impair growth and service.

Parents need much wisdom in relating to their grown children—and much prayer. Children likewise have much to learn about relating to their parents as the years pass.

Someday your children will leave; you can't hold on to them or control them forever, nor should you.

Unless the soul is fed and exercised daily, it becomes weak and shriveled. It remains discontented, confused, restless.