Quotes about Growth
No one wants pain. Not even long-time, mature Christians who want to grow. We will always find ways to avoid pain. Pain itself is a bad thing.
— John Ortberg
Most people already know what they're doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.
— Joel Osteen
Over the last three years, UCLA has helped me grow as an athlete, a scholar, and a member of the community. I have made some mistakes along the way; however, I am grateful that I made those mistakes backed by such a supportive and positive university so that I could learn from them and better myself.
— Josh Rosen
I just want to find some inner peace, and I think I'm getting there, slowly but surely.
— Toni Collette
I'm not as surprised in going from playing 1,000 seats to 4,000 seats as I was from 100 to 500 seats.
— John Mayer
God has been faithful time and again to surround me with people that sharpen me and that make me better.
— TobyMac
No one can come back and start over, but everybody can move forward and decide the ending.
— Karl Barth
Theology must have the character of a living procession.
— Karl Barth
Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it. No man hath affliction enough that is not matured and ripened by it and made fit for God.
— John Donne
That deed which in our guilt we today call weakness, will appear tomorrow as an essential link in the complete chain of Man.
— Khalil Gibran
How stunning are the changes which age makes in a man while he sleeps!
— Mark Twain
Every man is made to reach out beyond his grasp.
— Oswald Chambers