Quotes about Expansion

Light poured out multiplies light poured in.

At the time of Christ the world population stood at about 200 million. By AD 1200 the world population had doubled to about 400 million. By the time of the American Revolution, in 1776, the world population had doubled again, to about 800 million. The population doubled again by 1900, to about 1.6 billion. The population doubled again by 1960, to more than 3 billion.1 From the time of Christ the population doubles in

If you are reading in order to become a better reader, you cannot read just any book or article. You will not improve as a reader if all you read are books that are well within your capacity. You must tackle books that are beyond you, or, as we have said, books that are over your head. Only books of that sort will make you stretch your mind. And unless you stretch, you will not learn.

If a book is easy and fits nicely into all your language conventions and thought forms, then you probably will not grow much from reading it. It may be entertaining, but not enlarging to your understanding. It's the hard books that count. Raking is easy, but all you get is leaves; digging is hard, but you might find diamonds.

God's creative love, precisely by being love, creates new space for there to be things that are genuinely other than God.

In every historical period, the religious groups that grow most rapidly are those that set believers at odds with the surrounding culture.

Africa at the start of the twentieth century, Christians were only 9 percent of the population; today they are 44 percent.

One discovers, and names. Conquers and civilizes.

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimension.

Everyone has to learn to think differently, bigger, to open to possibilities.

If you believe in Jesus, you are not to spend all your time in the calm waters just inside the harbor, full of joy, but always tied to the dock. You have to get out past the harbor into the great depths of God, and begin to know things for yourself—begin to have spiritual discernment.

It is a fundamental denial of your humanity to narrow the size of your life to the size of your own existence,