Quotes about Growth

I wept to think that life went on even when so much had been lost, that rain still fell and myrtle grew between the rocks.

There is no time of life past learning something.

Life with most teenagers was like having a low-grade bladder infection. It hurts, but you had to tough it out.

If you ask me, when something extraordinary shows up in your life in the middle of the night, you give it a name and make it the best home you can.

I got to see the best players in the world every year the week after the U.S. Nationals, which is now known as the US Open, in Los Angeles. That made a huge difference in my life.

We have reason not to be afraid of the machine, for there is always constructive change, the enemy of machines, making them change to fit new conditions.

The best tests of my Christian growth occur in the mainstream of life, not in the quietness of my study

Sanctification is like a clumsy, slow walk rather than a light switch that we turn from off to on.

Notice how those who have medicated away their hardships with illegal drugs, alcohol, or sex can seem immature. They may look forty-five, but they have the character of an adolescent. Find a person who has weathered storms rather than avoided them and you will find someone who is wise.

You can lead a boy to college but you can't make him think.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without a teacher.