Quotes about Growth

God seldom calls us for an easier life, but always calls us to know more of him and drink more deeply of His sustaining grace.

I count myself as one of the number of those who learn as they write and write as they learn.

Humility is the soil in which everything good in the Christian life grows.

The pathway to maturity and to solid biblical food is not first becoming an intelligent person, but becoming an obedient person.

As we grow older and our bodies weaken, we must learn from the Puritan pastor Richard Baxter (who died in 1691) to redouble our efforts to find strength from spiritual joy, not natural supplies.

Faithfulness is only half the equation. God expects fruitfulness as well.

If you cannot embrace the pain of learning but must have instant gratification, you forfeit the greatest rewards of life.

No one ever said that they learned their deepest lessons of life, or had their sweetest encounters with God, on the sunny days. People go deep with God when the drought comes. That is the way God designed it. Christ aims to be magnified in life most clearly by the way we experience him in our losses.

Seek not to grow in knowledge chiefly for the sake of applause, and to enable you to dispute with others; but seek it for the benefit of your souls, and in order to practice. . . . Practice according to what knowledge you have. This will be the way to know more. .

Brand-new truths are probably not Truths.

A thousand sorrows prepares a man to preach.

Sanctification in any area of our lives always expresses this double dimension—a putting off and a putting on, as it were. Speech and silence, appropriately expressed, are together the mark of the mature.3