Quotes about Growth

It is a fundamental denial of your humanity to narrow the size of your life to the size of your own existence,

When your ears hear and your eyes see the sin, weakness, or failure of your husband or wife, it is never an accident; it is always grace. God loves your spouse, and he is committed to transforming him or her by his grace, and he has chosen you to be one of his regular tools of change. So, he will cause you to see, hear, and experience your spouse's need for change so that you can be an agent of his rescue.

This side of heaven good marriages are good marriages because the people in those marriages are committed to doing daily the things that keep their marriages good. Things go wrong when couples think they have reached the point when they can retire from their marital work and chill out, lie back, and slide.

When someone who knows you points out a sin, a weakness, or a failure, are you thankful?

Change is about learning what is right, acknowledging that it is right, confessing that you have been wrong, committing to a new way of living, and seeking the help you need to do it. (66)

Here's how gospel growth works: you cannot grieve what you do not see, you cannot confess what you haven't grieved, and you can't repent of what you haven't confessed.

God has chosen to let you live in this fallen world because he plans to employ the difficulties of it to continue and complete his work in you.

Joyful, perseverant obedience only ever grows in the soil of worship.

In grace, he leads you where you didn't plan to go in order to produce in you what you couldn't achieve on your own.

successful parenting is not about achieving goals (that you have no power to produce) but about being a usable and faithful tool in the hands of the One who alone is able to produce good things in your children.

Midlife doesn't introduce you to a new you; it forces you to admit who you have been all along.

Change begins at the level of the heart.