Quotes about Growth

It is worth pointing out that feeling things (which usually means feeling them painfully ) is at some level linked to the acquisition of knowledge.

We are idiots now, we have been idiots in the past and we will be idiots again in the future - and that is OK.

If we are not regularly deeply embarrassed by who we are, the journey to self-knowledge hasn't begun.

The development of the artist provides a profound model of the process of maturation.

We have allowed our love stories to end too early. We seem to know too much about how love starts, and recklessly little about how it might continue.

The first apostles of Christ were in the eyes of the world "unlearned and ignorant" men: it was not until the Church had endured a persecution and had grown largely in numbers that Christ called a learned man to be His apostle.

Wesleyanism was at its most influential when it was a people movement that was reproducing like mad.

we will never be faithful in the biblical sense if we never move from home base.

A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.

A person is a person through other persons. None of us comes into the world fully formed. We would not know how to think, or walk, or speak, or behave as human beings unless we learned it from other human beings. We need other human beings in order to be human. I am because other people are. A person is entitled to a stable community life, and the first of these communities is the family.

It is through weakness and vulnerability that most of us learn empathy and compassion and discover our soul.

Time lost is time when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering.