Quotes about Growth

What we don't have now we don't need now. Possibly His very withholding is in order that the boy may learn, at this crucial juncture in his life, to turn to God in prayer for a deeply felt need.

Thanksgiving is a spiritual exercise, necessary to the building of a healthy soul. It takes us out of the stuffiness of ourselves into the fresh breeze and sunlight of the will of God.

Suffering creates the possibility of growth in, holiness, but only to those who, by letting all else go, are open to the training—not by arguing with the Lord about what they did or did not do to deserve punishment, but by praying, "Lord, show me what You have for me in this.

Each time God gives us a hard lesson He desires also to give us Himself. If we open our hands to receive the lesson we open our hearts to receive Him, and with Himself His vision to see the glory in the surrender, whether of small things like self-esteem and reputation, or bigger things like a career and a home.

She was awed by the privilege. She accepted the disciplines.

Many deaths must go into us reaching that measure, many letting go's.

Holiness presupposes constant growth through an ongoing relationship with the One who has called us to be holy.

Things which sound like platitudes become vital, living and powerful when you have to learn them in dark tunnels.

Marriage is more than finding the right person…it is being the right person!

Let every hindrance to joy become the soil out of which joy blossoms.

We must pay a price if we are to become priceless.

Your ultimate goal for marriage is that both of you—as husband and wife—commit to keep growing spiritually.