Quotes about Growth
God has his ways to loosen your roots.
— John Piper
One of the things pleasing in God's sight is that his people keep on drawing near to him forever and ever. And so he is working in us this very thing.
— John Piper
The faith that justifies gives rise to lives of obedience—not perfection, but growing holiness.
— John Piper
If we come with a chip on our shoulder that there is nothing we can learn or no benefit we can get, we will prove ourselves infallible on both counts.
— John Piper
I have the profound sense that many people who complain of not being able to rejoice in God treat the knowledge of God as something that ought to be easy to get. They are passive. They expect spiritual things to happen to them from out of nowhere.
— John Piper
If they had more grace to hear, they would receive more that the writer has to give. But they are becoming hard and dull, and in danger of throwing away the little they have.
— John Piper
Education is helping people understand something they don't already understand. Or, more accurately, education is helping people (young or old) learn how to get an understanding that they didn't already have. Education is cultivating the life of the mind so that it knows how to grow in true understanding. That impulse was unleashed by God's inspiring a book with complex demanding paragraphs in it.
— John Piper
What this means is that if you want to grow up and feast on the fullness of God's revelation, you don't do it by jumping from milk to meat. You do it by the way you drink the milk. The milk has to make you a certain kind of discerning person before you can digest the meat.
— John Piper
Every temptation is an opportunity of our getting nearer to God.
— John Quincy Adams
To furnish the means of acquiring knowledge is ... the greatest benefit that can be conferred upon mankind. It prolongs life itself and enlarges the sphere of existence.
— John Quincy Adams
It's spring! Farewell To chills and colds! The blushing, girlish World unfolds Each flower, leaf And blade of sod— Small letters sent To her from God.
— John Updike
Once in seven years I burn all my sermons; for it is a shame if I cannot write better sermons now than I did seven years ago.
— John Wesley