Quotes about Growth

The second insight about steps and stages is that from your own level of development, you can only stretch yourself to comprehend people just a bit beyond yourself.

If change and growth are not programmed into your spirituality, if there are not serious warnings about the blinding nature of fear and fanaticism, your religion will always end up worshiping the status quo and protecting your present ego position and personal advantage—as if it were God!

One of the few generalizations we can make in the field of universal spirituality is this: No one else is your problem.

Self-emptiness prepares us for spiritual fullness.

See a flame in a spark, a tree in a seed. See great things in little beginnings.

The truth is, almost everything we do is done poorly when we first start doing it — that's how we learn.

Instant obedience will teach you more about God than a lifetime of Bible discussions.

The more God gives you, the more responsible he expects you to be.

we are product of our past but we don't have to be prisoners of it.

Familiarity breeds complacency.

God is more interested in your character than your comfort. God is more interested in making your life holy than He is in making your life happy.

When God wants to make a mushroom, he does it overnight, but when He wants to make a giant oak, He takes a hundred years. Great souls are grown through struggles and storms and seasons of suffering. Be patient with the process.