Quotes about Growth

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Your Father's greatest desire for you is that you would be like Him, that you would be holy. He cares more about your transformation than your happiness, more about your spiritual maturity than your comfort.

Bonhoeffer's change was not an ungainly, embarrassing leap from which he would have to retreat slightly when he gained more maturity and perspective. It was by all accounts a deepening consistent with what had gone before.

He could hardly recognize it as something that had grown out of what he had begun.

Seeds were planted and evidently sown while the bishops slept (Mt 13:25).

A seed had been pressed into the soil of his soul, and had been watered, and would soon burst and sprout green and grow beyond all possibility of concealing.

At springtime all is born-again.

But most extraordinary—and evidence to Mrs. Wilberforce of a "Great Change" indeed, though one she certainly welcomed—was a marked absence of that irritability and harsh temper he had sometimes displayed, especially toward her.

That too seems unnecessarily severe, but we mustn't judge too harshly, for those who have gone through anything like a dramatic conversion usually stagger a bit too far in one direction before they correct their course and learn where the best forward path lies.

But just remember: a woman's like a rose; if you treat her right, she'll bloom, if you don't, she'll wilt.

It is no longer a question of a Christian going about to convert others to the faith, but of each one being ready to listen to the other and so to grow together in mutual understanding.

If we recognize our talents and use them appropriately, and choose a field that uses those talents, we will rise to the top of our field.