Quotes about Growth
Someone has said, "To have suffered much is like knowing many languages: It gives the sufferer access to many more people." Lord, help me to use any suffering I might be called upon to endure in that positive fashion.
— Billy Graham
Gardens don't grow by themselves; they need to be tended and cultivated and weeded. The same is true of a marriage.
— Billy Graham
Born to crawl, Reborn to fly.
— Billy Graham
It is a tragic fact that the vast majority of Christians today are living a sub-normal Christian life.
— Billy Graham
From a cleansed conscience emerges a changed life.
— Billy Graham
Many a life has come forth from the furnace of affliction more beautiful and more useful than before.
— Billy Graham
The world does need changing, society needs changing, the nation needs changing, but we never will change it until we ourselves are changed.
— Billy Graham
Marriage is not a reform school... Instead of you reforming [your spouse], [he or she] will instead influence you.
— Billy Graham
The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
— Billy Graham
Christianity increases the scope and area of our lives.
— Billy Graham
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.
— Billy Graham
Affliction may be for our edification and Christian development.
— Billy Graham