Quotes about Growth

Lots of my dying patients say they grow in bounds and leaps, and finish all the unfinished business. But assisting a suicide is cheating them of these lessons, like taking a student out of school before final exams. That's not love, it's projecting your own unfinished business

The most beautiful people I've known are those who have known trials, have known struggles, have known loss, and have found their way out of the depths.

Dying to something old, a pattern that is comfortable in its dysfunction, so that one can move to a different system, a new freedom.

It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.

It is by doctrine (through the power of the Spirit) that believers are nourished and edified, and where doctrine is neglected, growth in grace and effective witnessing for Christ necessarily cease. How sad then that doctrine is now decried as "unpractical" when, in fact, doctrine is the very base of the practical life.

It matters not what growth has been made in grace, how well experienced we may be in the spiritual life, or how eminent the position we have occupied in the Lord's service—when He withdraws His sustaining hand the madness which is in our hearts by nature at once asserts itself, gains the upper hand, and leads us into a course of folly.

It is the land of perpetual pubescence, where cultural lag is mistaken for renaissance.

In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.

The last six years afforded me much time and food for thought. I came to the conclusion that the human race is not divided into two opposing camps of good and evil. It is made up of those who are capable of learning and those who are incapable of doing so.

You just don't know in life. Life knocks you about and pushes you over boundaries. But be ready. Do your homework; that's all I can say.

When you go through heartbreak, you just do the things that get you by. Eventually, you realise it's about making the most of life.

When all is said and done, the greatest satisfaction you'll have in this life as you grow old will be seeing your children grow in righteousness and faith and goodness as citizens of the society of which they are a part.