Quotes about Growth

My therapist says I still haven't got in touch with my anger. Maybe one day I'm going to explode. But I'm still really happy. I know it looks like a strange and painful upbringing - all those experiences led me to the paths that I'm on now.

The upside of a downward spiral into despair and defeat in young adulthood is that pretty early on, I was forced to face not only the foolish things I had done but also the stark realization that there was likely no end to what I was capable of doing.

The New Testament persistently presses us upward, toward higher motives for being good.

Don't wish it were easier. Wish you were better.

Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.

The older I get, the more I meet people, the more convinced I am that we must only work on ourselves, to grow in grace. The only thing we can do about people is to love them.

Everybody is looking for instant success, but it doesn't work that way. You build a successful life one day at a time.

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.

If we are willing to do the mental work, almost anything can be healed.

The renewal of our natures is a work of great importance. It is not to be done in a day. We have not only a new house to build up, but an old one to pull down.

The miracle of the seed and the soil is not available by affirmation; it is only available by labor.

God often does His best work in us when He catches us by surprise and introduces a change that is completely against our own desire.