Quotes about Growth

What suffering teaches us is that three blessings flow from its tutelage: (1) the blessing of an amplified testimony, (2) the blessing of a fulfilled identity, and (3) the blessing of unshakable faith and strength that never drains away.

All walls are not barriers. They may be there for a purpose.

For the first time, I felt my mind being stretched — and I loved it. I realized that thinking could be fun, and with that simple realization I was sent headlong into the lifelong discipline of reading. I

How much older can you be at your age? A half minute before that you were stepping into high school, and an unhooked brassiere was as close as you ever hoped to get to Paradise. Only a fifth of a second before that you were a small kid with a ten-week summer vacation that lasted a hundred thousand years and still ended too soon. Zip! They go rocketing by so fast.

Trust and faith bring joy to life and help relationships grow to their maximum potential.

Here's one of my favorite statements: We are never going to enjoy stability, we are never going to enjoy spiritual maturity until we learn how to do what's right when it feels wrong, and every time you do what's right by a decision of your will using discipline and self control to go beyond how you feel, the more painful it is in your flesh, the more you're growing spiritually at that particular moment.

There are no drive-thru breakthroughs. Breakthroughs take time.

We don't want to survive. We want to be healed.

Where there is a rotten root, there will always be rotten fruit. We must be rooted in Jesus Christ.

There are two kinds of pain: the pain of change and the pain of never changing and remaining the same.

No matter how much we know in any area there are always new things to learn and things we have previously learned that we need to be refreshed in.

There are times when God leaves huge question marks as tools in our lives to stretch our our faith.