Quotes about Growth

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.

Go forth on your path, as it exists only through your walking.

It is not by change of place that we can come nearer to Him who is in every place, but by the cultivation of pure desires and virtuous habits.

True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.

He who goes about to reform the world must begin with himself, or he loses his labor.

Good, better, best, never let it rest 'til the good is the better, and the better is the best

To reach something good, it is useful to have gone astray.

Reading is of great service towards procuring recollection in any one who proceeds in this way; and it is even necessary for him, however little it may be that he reads, if only as a substitute for the mental prayer which is beyond his reach.

If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness