Quotes about Growth

When you choose to follow Christ, you choose to be changed.

I have nothing against her, and in fact I'm very fond of my first wife. But we should have ended that marriage eight or 10 years earlier.

Worked my way up the proverbial food chain to become president of NFL Europe.

What I can say, categorically, is that working with Sarah Paulson and Kathy Bates will have been the most formative experience for me, as an actor, for the rest of my life.

I was broke into my forties.

Words are not too old, only people are too old if they use the same words too frequently.

He was never angry when she made mistakes. He complimented and encouraged her. He shared his own mishaps with a sense of humor that made her less annoyed with her own incompetence. He gave her hope that she could learn, and pride when she did.

Dwelling on the past only defeated her chances for changing the future.

Suffering brought endurance in order that one might be strengthened for whatever lay ahead.

It broke her heart, but a good mother teaches her children to fly.

Love the way you take on new things, your drive to learn. I love how you work, how you have this little-girl look on your face when you finish something you've never tried before. I love watching you skip across the meadow with Ruth. I love seeing you laugh with Miriam and hang on Elizabeth's wisdom. I love the whole idea of growing old with you and waking up to you every morning for the rest of my life.

But kids like us grow up and need our own relationship with God, forged in the heart through time and experience, not draped around us by the church we attend. We need to know God for ourselves, not secondhand.