Quotes about Growth

The thorn is one of the most cursed and angry and crabbed weeds that the earth yields, and yet out of it springs the rose, one of the sweetest smelled flowers, and most delightful to the eye.

urge upon you . . . a nearer communion with Christ and a growing communion. There are curtains to be drawn by in Christ that we never saw, and new foldings of love in Him. I despair that ever I shall win to the far end of that love, there are so many plies in it; therefore dig deep, and sweat, and labour, and take pains for Him, and set by so much time in the day for Him as you can: He will be won with labour.

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

We can't know at any given time how God will bless our faithful witness. So the apparent numerical growth of the church is never a good guide to how faithful we have been in evangelism.

It's time to stop letting your history control your destiny.

Always remember that, every time you step out of your comfort zone, you step into God's comfort zone.

It's always good to get a smaller tournament under your belt so that by the time you get to the Slams, you have a lot of experience.

Spend your time and energy creating, not criticizing.

My intellectual development was retarded, as a result of which I began to wonder about space and time only when I had already grown up.

Every time we deny ourselves in order to serve someone else, we grow in Christ.

Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory.