Quotes about Growth

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.

being a teenager these days is not for the faint of heart.

Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it.

It all began with a dozen men and a handful of women: and then the Spirit came.

If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.

I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times, I've been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

Learning is a gift, even when pain is your teacher!

I'm learning, but I'm getting better at it because I'm learning how to hear God in worship.

At the time of Christ the world population stood at about 200 million. By AD 1200 the world population had doubled to about 400 million. By the time of the American Revolution, in 1776, the world population had doubled again, to about 800 million. The population doubled again by 1900, to about 1.6 billion. The population doubled again by 1960, to more than 3 billion.1 From the time of Christ the population doubles in

The more the marble wastes, the more the statue grows.

Proverbs 2:4—5 challenges the body of Christ to seek the Lord as silver. We must gain the knowledge of Him, for there are hidden things that God will only give to the hungry.

We will all be far better spouses, parents, and leaders as we take time to grow in prayer.