Quotes about Growth

Who you become is determined by how you pray.

Instead of exclusively focusing on what's wrong and trying to fix it, you identify what's right and try to replicate it. Appreciative inquiry is playing to people's strengths. It's catching people doing things right. It's celebrating what you want to see more of. And it's bragging about people behind their backs.

Who you become is determined by how you pray. Ultimately, the transcript of your prayers becomes the script of your life.

Our potential is directly proportional to our prayer life. It is the single greatest indicator of our success in any endeavor.

If you want God to do something new in you, you cannot keep doing the same old thing. You have to do something different.

the tiny mustard seed contains all the nutrients you need to survive. It's packed with vitamins B1, B6, C, E, and K. It's a source of calcium, iron, magnesium, phosphorus, potassium, selenium, and zinc. Faith is a lot like that. It doesn't look like much, but we never know what it can become. A little faith goes a long way; in fact, a little faith will last an eternity.

if you keep sowing the right seeds, the harvest of blessing will come in God's time, in God's way!

God often uses us at our point of greatest incompetence.

Before going wherever God wants to take you next, is there some place you need to go back to? Sometimes the way forward is backward. "The farther backward you can look," said Winston Churchill, "the farther forward you can see."

the reason many of us get stuck in the six cages—the cage of responsibility, the cage of routine, the cage of assumptions, the cage of guilt, the cage of failure, and the cage of fear—is for one simple reason: We want God to do something new while we keep doing the same old thing.

Celebrate what you want to see more of. That's one way to fan into flame the gift of God.

You can either avoid making mistakes and play not to lose, or you can make the most of every opportunity and play to win.