Quotes about Growth

With the deepest things in life, there is always more to knowing than knowing will ever know, so the deepest knowledge must be learned in life, from experience, and under a master.

The way of the disciple is a different and deeper way of learning.

Calling is not only a matter of being and doing what we are but also of becoming what we are not yet but are called by God to be.

The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth

To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well worth remembering from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.

Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors, that they are ready to repeat their lesson as often as we please.

We should always choose our books as God chooses our friends, just a bit beyond us, so that we have to do our level best to keep up with them.

At times God puts us through the discipline of darkness to teach us to heed Him. Song birds are taught to sing in the dark, and we are put into the shadow of God's hand until we learn to hear Him.

When God gets us alone through suffering, heartbreak, temptation, disappointment, sickness, or by thwarted friendship - when He gets us absolutely alone, and we are totally speechless, unable to ask even one question, then He begins to teach us.