Quotes about Growth

True forgiveness is when you can say, "Thank you for that experience.

Surround yourself only with people who are going to take you higher.

You get to know who you really are in a crisis.

If ours is an examined faith, we should be unafraid to doubt. If doubt is eventually justified, we were believing what clearly was not worth believing. But if doubt is answered, our faith has grown stronger. It knows God more certainly and it can enjoy God more deeply.

With the deepest things in life, there is always more to knowing than knowing will ever know, so the deepest knowledge must be learned in life, from experience, and under a master.

The way of the disciple is a different and deeper way of learning.

Calling is not only a matter of being and doing what we are but also of becoming what we are not yet but are called by God to be.

The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth

To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well worth remembering from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.

Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.