Quotes about Growth

The decision to grow always involves a choice between risk and comfort. This means that to be a follower of Jesus you must renounce comfort as the ultimate value of your life. And

Spiritual discipline: Any activity that can help me gain power to live life as Jesus taught and modeled it.

The love of God is like himself — equal, constant, not capable of augmentation or diminution; our love is like ourselves — unequal, increasing, waning, growing, declining. His, like the sun, always the same in its light, though a cloud may sometimes interpose; ours, as the moon, has its enlargements and straightenings.

Let not man think he makes any progress in holiness who walks not over the bellies of his lusts.

Let not that man think he makes any progress in holiness who walks not over the bellies of his lusts.

Every good thing in the Christian life grows in the soil of humility. Without humility, every virtue and every grace withers. That's why Calvin said humility is first, second, and third in the Christian faith.

God seldom calls us for an easier life, but always calls us to know more of him and drink more deeply of His sustaining grace.

I count myself as one of the number of those who learn as they write and write as they learn.

Humility is the soil in which everything good in the Christian life grows.

The pathway to maturity and to solid biblical food is not first becoming an intelligent person, but becoming an obedient person.

As we grow older and our bodies weaken, we must learn from the Puritan pastor Richard Baxter (who died in 1691) to redouble our efforts to find strength from spiritual joy, not natural supplies.

Faithfulness is only half the equation. God expects fruitfulness as well.