Quotes about Growth

Every church needs to grow warmer through fellowship, deeper through discipleship, stronger through worship, broader through ministry, and larger through evangelism.

The fact is, it is selfish for a church to not want to grow. A church that says, "We've got enough people, we've got a nice fellowship. Our church is just the right size. We just need to focus on the members we already have." That church is, in reality, actually saying, "The rest of the world can go to hell. We don't care.

Remember how far you've come, not just how far you have to go. You are not where you want to be, but neither are you where you used to be.

That is why the key to long-lasting success is to develop habits — new, positive habits that replace our self-defeating behaviors.

God is not waiting for you to get physically healthy or spiritually mature before he starts loving you or enjoying you. He loves you right now, and he will be cheering you on at every stage of your growth and development. He is not waiting for you to cross the finish line first. He is smiling at you as you run the race.

Every problem is a character-building opportunity, and the more difficult it is, the greater the potential for building spiritual muscle and moral fiber.

Knowledge increases responsibility.

We are products of our past, but we don't have to be prisoners of it.

No, that trauma you faced was not easy. And God wept that it hurt you so; But it was allowed to shape your heart So that into his likeness you'd grow.

Christlikeness is not produced by imitation, but by inhabitation.

No discipline is enjoyable while it is happening — it's painful! But afterward there will be a peaceful harvest of right living for those who are trained in this way" (Hebrews 12:11 NLT).

God changes caterpillars into butterflies, sand into pearls and coal into diamonds using time and pressure. He's working on you, too.