Quotes about Growth

Our potential is directly proportional to our prayer life. It is the single greatest indicator of our success in any endeavor.

If you want God to do something new in you, you cannot keep doing the same old thing. You have to do something different.

the tiny mustard seed contains all the nutrients you need to survive. It's packed with vitamins B1, B6, C, E, and K. It's a source of calcium, iron, magnesium, phosphorus, potassium, selenium, and zinc. Faith is a lot like that. It doesn't look like much, but we never know what it can become. A little faith goes a long way; in fact, a little faith will last an eternity.

if you keep sowing the right seeds, the harvest of blessing will come in God's time, in God's way!

God often uses us at our point of greatest incompetence.

Before going wherever God wants to take you next, is there some place you need to go back to? Sometimes the way forward is backward. "The farther backward you can look," said Winston Churchill, "the farther forward you can see."

the reason many of us get stuck in the six cages—the cage of responsibility, the cage of routine, the cage of assumptions, the cage of guilt, the cage of failure, and the cage of fear—is for one simple reason: We want God to do something new while we keep doing the same old thing.

Celebrate what you want to see more of. That's one way to fan into flame the gift of God.

You can either avoid making mistakes and play not to lose, or you can make the most of every opportunity and play to win.

Do the best you can with what you have where you are. Success is not circumstantial. We usually focus on what we're doing or where we're going, but God's primary concern is who we're becoming in the process. We talk about "doing" the will of God, but the will of God has much more to do with "being."

Your ability to see failure as a necessary stepping stone directly correlates with your ability to dream bigger and dream better.

We tend to view the goal as the goal, but in God's economy, the process is the goal. It's not about what we're doing at all; it's about who we're becoming in the process.