Quotes about Growth
The path to God is rarely a steady climb upward. We climb, we fall back, and we climb higher again.
— Harold S. Kushner
When we learn to move through suffering, rather than avoid it, then we greet it differently. We become willing to let it teach us. We even begin to see how God can use it for some larger end.
— Henri Nouwen
Growth in grace is one way to be happy in our religion. God has wisely linked together our comfort and our increase in holiness.
— JC Ryle
It's spring! Farewell To chills and colds! The blushing, girlish World unfolds Each flower, leaf And blade of sod— Small letters sent To her from God.
— John Updike
There are times when God leaves huge question marks as tools in our lives to stretch our our faith.
— Joyce Meyer
The million little things that drop into your hands The small opportunities each day brings He leaves us free to use or abuse And goes unchanging along His silent way.
— Helen Keller
Being human means you will make mistakes. And you will make mistakes, because failure is God's way of moving you in another direction.
— Oprah Winfrey
We are always on the anvil by trials God is shaping us for higher things.
— Henry Ward Beecher
The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.
— George Bernard Shaw
I am not where I need to be, but thank God I am not where I used to be.
— Joyce Meyer
If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.
— Confucius
Good decisions come from experience. Experience comes from making bad decisions.
— Mark Twain