Quotes about Growth
The great solution to all human problems is individual inner transformation.
— Vernon Howard
In community, we discover who we really are and how much transformation we still require. This is why I am irrevocably committed to small groups. Through them, we can accomplish our God-entrusted work to transform human beings.
— John Ortberg
God has decided, for his own good reasons, that people are not transformed outside of community.
— John Ortberg
My hope is that I will take the good from my experiences and extrapolate them further into areas with which I am unfamiliar. I simply do not know exactly what that difference will be in my judging. But I accept there will be some based on my gender and my Latina heritage.
— Sonia Sotomayor
Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.
— St. Jerome
In as much as love grows in you, so in you beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
— St. Augustine
The Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them.
— St. Augustine
Anger is a weed; hate is the tree.
— St. Augustine
I will pass then beyond this power of my nature also, rising by degrees unto Him Who made me.
— St. Augustine
Every city is a living body.
— St. Augustine
Narrow is the mansion of my soul; enlarge Thou it, that Thou mayest enter in.
— St. Augustine
And now, Lord, these things are passed by, and time hath assuaged my wound.
— St. Augustine