Quotes about Growth

Without change something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.

Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines.

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Comfort can be a dangerous thing. You stick around home all the time where it's safe and nothing ever changes, and before you know it, you get set in your ways and you quit learning, you quit changing, you don't grow anymore.

Don't worry about getting perfect, just keep getting better.

Every year that we grow in the Lord, Jesus Christ looms larger and greater in our eyes.

Are we living in a culture that is so infatuated with change that we have forgotten that the church is about transformation, not mere change?

All the traditional reasons put forth for "needing" a church building collapse under careful scrutiny. We so easily forget that the early Christians turned the world upside down without them (see Acts 17:6). They grew rapidly for three hundred years without the help (or hindrance) of church buildings.

Learning to preach is difficult because preaching is difficult.

If there is a disease in the preaching that I hear most often, it's not that what the minister says is wrong. It's that it is just too small.

The surest way to stop growing is to stop reading.