Quotes about Growth
The only mistake is not to risk making one.
— Max Lucado
If you do not transform your pain, you will surely transmit it. —RICHARD ROHR
— Max Lucado
If you see your troubles as nothing more than isolated hassles and hurts, you'll grow bitter and angry. Yet if you see your troubles as tests used by God for his glory and your maturity, then even the smallest incidents take on significance.
— Max Lucado
Rather than ask God to change your circumstances, ask him to use your circumstances to change you. Life is a required course. Might as well do your best to pass it.
— Max Lucado
The parched soil of fear needs steady rain.
— Max Lucado
Don't see your struggle as an interruption to life but as preparation for life. No one said the road would be easy or painless. But God will use this mess for something good. "This trouble you're in isn't punishment; it's training, the normal experience of children . . . God is doing what is best for us, training us to live God's holy best" (Heb. 12:8, 10 MSG).
— Max Lucado
Nothing has a greater impact on spiritual growth than reflection on Scripture. If churches could do only one thing to help people at all levels of spiritual maturity grow in their relationship with Christ, their choice is clear. They would inspire, encourage, and equip their people to read the Bible.1
— Max Lucado
Let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. ROMANS 12:2 NLT
— Max Lucado
You can. With God's help you can close the gap between the person you are and the person you want to be.
— Max Lucado
Today's thoughts are tomorrow's actions.
— Max Lucado
Do you want to get . . . sober? Solvent? Educated? Better? Do you want to get in shape? Over your past? Beyond your upbringing? Do you want to get stronger, healthier, happier? Would you like to leave Bethesda in the rearview mirror? Are you ready for a new day, a new way? Are you ready to get unstuck?
— Max Lucado
If you see your troubles as nothing more than isolated hassles and hurts, you'll grow bitter and angry. Yet if you see your troubles as tests used by God for his glory and your maturity, then even the smallest of incidents takes on significance.
— Max Lucado