Quotes about Growth
The love of flowers is a consequence of modesty and an accommodation with disappointment. Some things need to go permanently wrong before we can start to admire the stem of a rose or the petals of a bluebell.
— Alain de Botton
Rather than struggling to become bigger fish, we might concentrate our energies on finding smaller ponds or smaller species to swim with, so our own size will trouble us less.
— Alain de Botton
We should not feel embarrassed by our difficulties, only by our failure to grow anything beautiful from them.
— Alain de Botton
It is worth pointing out that feeling things (which usually means feeling them painfully ) is at some level linked to the acquisition of knowledge.
— Alain de Botton
We are idiots now, we have been idiots in the past and we will be idiots again in the future - and that is OK.
— Alain de Botton
If we are not regularly deeply embarrassed by who we are, the journey to self-knowledge hasn't begun.
— Alain de Botton
The development of the artist provides a profound model of the process of maturation.
— Alain de Botton
We have allowed our love stories to end too early. We seem to know too much about how love starts, and recklessly little about how it might continue.
— Alain de Botton
The first apostles of Christ were in the eyes of the world "unlearned and ignorant" men: it was not until the Church had endured a persecution and had grown largely in numbers that Christ called a learned man to be His apostle.
— Alan Hirsch
Wesleyanism was at its most influential when it was a people movement that was reproducing like mad.
— Alan Hirsch
we will never be faithful in the biblical sense if we never move from home base.
— Alan Hirsch
A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
— Alan Hirsch