Quotes about Growth
What you are able to walk away from will determine what God can bring you to!
— John Hagee
The Hebrew word for meek really means "to be molded."
— John Hagee
To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
— John Henry Newman
Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.
— John Keats
Love is the answer, and you know that for sure Love is a flower, you've got to let it grow.
— John Lennon
We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.
— John Lennon
If you had started doing anything two weeks ago, by today you would have been two weeks better at it.
— John Mayer
High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just plain useless.
— John Mayer
This is not to say, there never comes a day I'll take my chances and start again. And when I look behind on all my younger times, I'll have to thank the wrongs that led me to a love so strong.
— John Mayer
Maturity starts with the willingness to give oneself.
— Elisabeth Elliot
If we hold tightly to anything given to us unwilling to allow it to be used as the Giver means it to be used we stunt the growth of the soul. What God gives us is not necessarily "ours" but only ours to offer back to him, ours to relinguish, ours to lose, ours to let go of, if we want to be our true selves. Many deaths must go into reaching our maturity in Christ, many letting goes.
— Elisabeth Elliot
The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross