Quotes about Growth

Just because I'm a wren doesn't mean I can't preach an eagle message. Of course I can. Is that a lack of integrity if I preach something bigger than I can even feel, if I preach a message that I haven't even grown to? That's not a lack of integrity. That's accepting the call. That's what it is because there's too much at stake to do otherwise.

The top experts in the world are ardent students. The day you stop learning, you're definitely not an expert.

We can only love others as much as we love ourselves.

In my experience, self-hatred is the dominant malaise crippling Christians and stifling their growth in the Holy Spirit.

It is for the inconsistent, unsteady disciples whose cheese is falling off their cracker.

One of life's greatest paradoxes is that it's in the crucible of pain and suffering that we become tender.

If we are going to keep on growing, we must keep on risking failure throughout our lives. When

Self-deception is the enemy of wholeness because it prevents us from seeing ourselves as we really are. It covers up our lack of growth in the Spirit of the truthful One and keeps us from coming to terms with our real personalities.

Several times in my ministry people have expressed the fear that self-acceptance will abort the ongoing conversion process and lead to a life of spiritual laziness and moral laxity. Nothing could be more untrue. The acceptance of self does not mean to be resigned to the status quo. On the contrary, the more fully we accept ourselves, the more successfully we begin to grow. Love is a far better stimulus than threat or pressure.

Every change in the quality of a person's life must grow out of a change in his or her vision of reality.

I hear with growing clarity, it's that God is calling each and every Christian to personally participate in the healing ministry of Jesus Christ.

Each moment of our existence, we are either growing into more or retreating into less.