Quotes about Growth

Here is a community goal: to be able to identify one pattern of sin in our lives.

James intentionally enlarges the scope of suffering when he writes, "trials of many kinds." By doing this, he invites those who experience depression to learn that, whatever the cause, depression will test our faith and serve as a catalyst for growth rather than a reason for despair. Yes, depression is spiritual in the same way that all suffering brings us face-to-face with critical spiritual realities.

Deep change is rarely a matter of knowledge. It is a matter of repentance.

Therefore, we cannot rightly say, "My God is not a God of judgment and anger; my God is a God of love." Such thinking makes it almost impossible to grow in the fear of the Lord. It suggests that sin only saddens God rather than offends him. Both justice and love are expressions of his holiness, and we must know both to learn the fear of the Lord.

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.

Student: Dr. Einstein, Aren't these the same questions as last year's [physics] final exam? Dr. Einstein: Yes; But this year the answers are different.

a person who never make a mistake, never tried anything new.

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.

Dare to face the situation...Man has become a superman... But the superman with the superhuman power has not risen to the level of superhuman reason. To the degree which his power grows he becomes more and more a poor man... It must shake up our conscience that we become all the more inhuman the more we grow into superhuman.