Quotes about Growth

Every experience God gives us, every person He puts in our lives is the perfect preparation for a future that only He can see.

Jesus Christ is able to untangle all the snarls in your soul, to banish all your complexes, and to transform even your fixed habit patterns, no matter how deeply they are etched in your subconscious.

A well-known psychologist once said, 'When a child reaches his third birthday, his parents will have given him half of all that they will ever be able to give him in the way of education.

Every experience God gives us, every person He puts in our lives is the perfect preparation for a future that only He can see.

One, the observable, external life, grew every day more horrible. The other, the life we lived with God, grew daily better, truth upon truth, glory upon glory.

AND SO THE shadow fell across us that winter afternoon in 1937, but it rested lightly. Nobody dreamed that this tiny cloud would grow until it blocked out the sky. And nobody dreamed that in this darkness each of us would be called to play a role: Father and Betsie and Mr. Kan and Willem—even the funny old Beje with its unmatching floor levels and ancient angles.

I will do today what I can do to enable me to do tomorrow what I can't do today.

Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Remember, to get what you've never had, you must do what you've never done. But to get what you once had, you must do what you once did.

We become weirder parents when we fall more and more in love with Christ.

But until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday," that person cannot say, "I choose otherwise.

If you honestly want to change, surround yourself with people who will help, people who believe you can do it.