Quotes about Growth

God uses chronic pain and weakness, along with other afflictions, as his chisel for sculpting our lives. Felt weakness deepens dependency on Christ for strength each day. The weaker we feel, the harder we lean. And the harder we lean, the stronger we grow spiritually, even while our bodies waste away.

Suffering doesn't teach you about yourself from a textbook—it teaches you from experience. It empties you so that by faith you can be filled with His Spirit.

It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.

The black moment is the moment when the real message of transformation is going to come. At the darkest moment comes the light.

Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.

When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.

Marriage . . . is not a love affair; it is an ordeal. (92)

The problem of the hero is to pierce himself (and therewith his world) precisely through that point; to shatter and annihilate that key knot of his limited existence.

The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for.

Our life evokes our character. You find out more about yourself as you go on. That's why it's good to be able to put yourself in situations that will evoke your higher nature rather than your lower.

The hero is the champion of things becoming, not of things become, because he is.

Where you stumble, there your treasure lies.