Quotes about Growth

I feel like Christianity gets very misconstrued sometimes. People don't realize that every day is a normal day just like anybody else, but we're just trying to improve every day. It's not about putting anybody down or telling anybody they're wrong. It's more about trying to do what's right for your own self.

Christians are made, not born.

No one wants pain. Not even long-time, mature Christians who want to grow. We will always find ways to avoid pain. Pain itself is a bad thing.

Most people already know what they're doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.

Over the last three years, UCLA has helped me grow as an athlete, a scholar, and a member of the community. I have made some mistakes along the way; however, I am grateful that I made those mistakes backed by such a supportive and positive university so that I could learn from them and better myself.

I just want to find some inner peace, and I think I'm getting there, slowly but surely.

I'm not as surprised in going from playing 1,000 seats to 4,000 seats as I was from 100 to 500 seats.

God has been faithful time and again to surround me with people that sharpen me and that make me better.

No one can come back and start over, but everybody can move forward and decide the ending.

Theology must have the character of a living procession.

Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it. No man hath affliction enough that is not matured and ripened by it and made fit for God.

That deed which in our guilt we today call weakness, will appear tomorrow as an essential link in the complete chain of Man.