Quotes about Growth

From a cleansed conscience emerges a changed life.

Many a life has come forth from the furnace of affliction more beautiful and more useful than before.

The world does need changing, society needs changing, the nation needs changing, but we never will change it until we ourselves are changed.

Marriage is not a reform school... Instead of you reforming [your spouse], [he or she] will instead influence you.

The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.

Christianity increases the scope and area of our lives.

Becoming "new" in Christ is a wonderful beginning, but it isn't the end of pain or problems in our lives. It is the beginning of our facing up to them. Being a Christian involves a lifetime of hard work, dedicated study, and difficult decisions.

Affliction may be for our edification and Christian development.

Prayer by itself is like a diet without protein! Prayer is important to our spiritual growth— but of even greater importance is God's Word, the Bible.

A born-again Christian should no more think of going back to the old life than an adult to his childhood.

Tell me why the gardener trims and prunes his rosebushes, sometimes cutting away productive branches, and I will tell you why God's people are afflicted. God's hand never slips.

The Bible warns us about "the little foxes, that spoil the vines" [Song of Solomon 2:15 KJV]. This is a picture of the way "little" sins can destroy our fruitfulness for the Lord.