Quotes about Development

Human beings are born too soon; they are unfinished, unready as yet to meet the world. Consequently their whole defense from a universe of dangers is the mother, under whose protection the intra-uterine period is prolonged.

first book of Corinthians: "When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

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 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.

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!

The worse thing that can happen to a man or a woman, is for them to succeed before they are ready.

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

Dr. Lloyd-Jones used to say, "The worst thing that can happen to a man is to succeed before he is ready.

As Dr. Lloyd-Jones used to say, "The worst thing that can happen to a man is to succeed before he is ready.

It is better to learn late than never.