Quotes about Growth

I have learned that I really do have discipline, self-control, and patience. But they were given to me as a seed, and it's up to me to choose to develop them.

The best thing Jay-Z ever taught me was patience.

I've been put in multiple boxes as blogging and as an influencer and not really perceived as a businesswoman, and that's something that I've really had to grow into.

You cannot help people permanently by doing for them what they can and should do for themselves.

The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

The most empowering relationships are those in which each partner lifts the other to a higher possession of their own being.

It is sometimes expedient to forget what you know.

Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness.

Again, the emphasis of the language warns against regression, for it literally reads, "You have become having need of milk, not solid food."4 They had begun to eat solid food early on but were now back on the bottle. The truth is, there is simply no such thing as a static Christian. We either move forward or fall back. We are either climbing or falling. We are either winning or losing. Static, status quo Christianity is a delusion!

Because we are more adult than actually mature, we tend to take our sins and baptize them, dressing them up as spiritual maturity.

Is it possible that we never feel grown-up because, as our capabilities increased with age, so increased our responsibilities?

I don't know who said it first, but the following is good advice: If you do nothing but read your Bible, you will dry up; if you only pray, you will blow up; but if you read your Bible and pray, you will grow up.