Quotes about Growth

Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.

In as much as love grows in you, so in you beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.

The Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them.

Anger is a weed; hate is the tree.

I will pass then beyond this power of my nature also, rising by degrees unto Him Who made me.

Every city is a living body.

Narrow is the mansion of my soul; enlarge Thou it, that Thou mayest enter in.

And now, Lord, these things are passed by, and time hath assuaged my wound.

For verses and poems I can turn to true food.

The education of the human race, represented by the people of God, has advanced, like that of an individual, through certain epochs, or, as it were, ages, so that it might gradually rise from earthly to heavenly things, and from the visible to the invisible.

Passing hence from infancy, I came to boyhood, or rather it came to me, displacing infancy. Nor did that depart,—(for whither went it?)—and yet it was no more.

We make a ladder of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.