Quotes about Growth
One common cause of this mistake of preferring to imagine and admire a great ideal instead of beginning to do little deeds is our impatience with little baby steps, our lack of humility.
— Peter Kreeft
We must pray in order to grow, and we must grow because Infinite Love will not, cannot, settle for less than the greatest joy of which his beloved creature is capable.
— Peter Kreeft
Stand in the divine rain, and seeds of wisdom will grow in your soul.
— Peter Kreeft
God makes it easy to begin: just do it! God also makes it easy to progress in prayer, for he rewards our efforts with peace and joy. And he makes it easiest of all at the end, for it gradually becomes more natural and delightful.
— Peter Kreeft
If I did not love you more today than I did yesterday, I would love you less, and that is intolerable. So I must find more ways to love you every day.
— Peter Kreeft
The more you treat someone you hate as if you loved them, the more you will find yourself loving them.
— Peter Kreeft
His purpose was not just to make us safe but to make us saints.
— Peter Kreeft
Every good choice makes the next one easier and more delightful.
— Peter Kreeft
bad fortune is really just as good for you as good fortune is, in fact, it is better, because, he says, bad fortune teaches, while good fortune deceives. When
— Peter Kreeft
God's Spirit is most powerfully at work in us during emotional troughs, the "dry" times, not the "high" times. All the saints teach that. When the aid of feelings is removed, we can move forward only by heroic effort of our will. This
— Peter Kreeft
The changing thing begins with only the potential to change, but it needs to be acted on by other things outside if that potential is to be made actual. Otherwise it cannot change.
— Peter Kreeft
each one needs something outside itself to actualize its potentiality for change.
— Peter Kreeft