Quotes about Growth

We are products of our past, but we don't have to be prisoners of it.

God sometimes removes a person from your life for your protection. Don't run after them.

Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you. Don't waste your pain; use it to help others.

God intentionally allows you to go through painful experiences to equip you for ministry to others.

Why is this happening to me? Why am I having such a difficult time? One answer is that life is supposed to be difficult! It's what enables us to grow. Remember, earth is not heaven!

The most oft-cited line of Newman's An Essay on the Development of Doctrine is situated in this context: "In a higher world it may be otherwise; but here below, to live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often." So indeed, Pope John's Newman-like image of the "flourishing garden of life" effectively holds off a stuffy traditionalism.

Never mind searching for who you are. Search for the person you aspire to be.

Life is not about discovering our talents; it is about pushing our talents to the limit and discovering our genius.

Every day ask yourself, "What would I do today if I were a better person?"

If you've never experienced the joy of accomplishing more than you can imagine, plant a garden.

Looking back, you realize that a very special person passed briefly through your life, and that person was you. It is not too late to become that person again.

It's like this. Father Time keeps pitching the years at us. We swing and miss at a few. We hit a few out of the park. We try not to take any called strikes.