Quotes about Growth

Experience is often a brutal teacher. Experience eats up you most valuable commodity:time. Learning from experience can eat up years. It can steal an entire stage of life.

But, then, that's the point. In leadership, success is succession.

The health of your marriage tomorrow will be determined by the decisions you make today.

If you want your church to stand the test of time, then you have to be replaced.

When a leader attempts to become well-rounded, he brings down the average of the organization's leadership quotient—which brings down the level of the leaders around him. Don't strive to be a well-rounded leader. Instead, discover your zone and stay there. Then delegate everything else.

Initially, your vision will exceed your competency.

Vision always precedes preparation. Initially, your vision will exceed your competency.

If you feed an appetite, it grows. Satisfying an appetite does not diminish it. It expands it. To diminish an appetite, you have to starve it.

Practical teaching that moves people to action is one of the primary things God uses to grow our faith.

To grow our congregants' faith, we must preach and teach for life change.

For this reason it is the dark that provides the leader with his greatest opportunities. It is your response to the dark that determines in large part whether or not you will be called on to lead. For the darkness is what keeps the average person from stepping outside the security of what has always been.

Ministry makes people's faith bigger. If you want to increase someone's confidence in God, put him in a ministry position before he feels fully equipped.