Quotes about Growth

balance invitation and challenge appropriately

Effective discipleship builds the church, not the other way around. We need to understand the church as the effect of discipleship and not the cause.

We need leaders who will step out of "managing church" and make discipling others their primary objective.

We don't have A "missional" problem. We Have A discipleship Problem.

It is not strange... to mistake change for progress.

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.

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

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.

See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence...we need silence to be able to touch souls.

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

Children make you want to start life over.

The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.