Quotes about Growth

And so He teaches us two lessons of deep importance about prayer. The one is that faith needs a life of prayer in which to grow and keep strong. The other is that prayer needs fasting for its full and perfect development.

Step by step we shall get to see how truly this promise-precept

There are two sorts of prayer: personal and intercessory. The latter ordinarily occupies the lesser part of our time and energy. This may not be. Christ has opened the school of prayer specially to train intercessors for the great work of bringing down, by their faith and prayer, the blessings of His work and love on the world around. There can be no deep growth in prayer unless this be made our aim.

Abiding in the Vine then comes to be nothing more or less than the restful surrender of the soul to let Christ have all and work all

He became the true Vine, that we might be true branches. Both in regard to Christ and ourselves the words teach us the two lessons of absolute dependence and perfect confidence.

As faith strengthens us for obedience, it is in turn strengthened by it. Faith is made perfect by works.

It is only by continuously fixing the mind for a time on some one of the lessons of faith, that the believer is gradually helped to take and thoroughly assimilate them.

The complaints of many Christians as to lack of joy and strength, as to failure and want of growth, are simply owing to this—the place God gave Holiness in His call they have not given it in their response. God and they have never yet come to an agreement on this.

I used to think that God's gifts were on shelves—one above another—and the taller we grow, the easier we can reach them. Now I find that God's gifts are on shelves—and the lower we stoop, the more we get.

Let us learn the lesson: the highest holiness is the deepest humility.

Nothing will so test and stimulate the Christian life as the honest attempt to be an intercessor.

His love is the basis of everything, and we must get on that as the solid foundation of our religious life and not grow up into that but grow up out of it.