Quotes about Growth

Education is helping people understand something they don't already understand. Or, more accurately, education is helping people (young or old) learn how to get an understanding that they didn't already have. Education is cultivating the life of the mind so that it knows how to grow in true understanding. That impulse was unleashed by God's inspiring a book with complex demanding paragraphs in it.

What this means is that if you want to grow up and feast on the fullness of God's revelation, you don't do it by jumping from milk to meat. You do it by the way you drink the milk. The milk has to make you a certain kind of discerning person before you can digest the meat.

Every temptation is an opportunity of our getting nearer to God.

To furnish the means of acquiring knowledge is ... the greatest benefit that can be conferred upon mankind. It prolongs life itself and enlarges the sphere of existence.

Once in seven years I burn all my sermons; for it is a shame if I cannot write better sermons now than I did seven years ago.

It cannot be that the people should grow in grace unless they give themselves to reading. A reading people will always be a knowing people.

It was a common saying among the Christians in the primitive Church, "The soul and the body make a man; the spirit and discipline make a Christian;" implying, that none could be real Christians, without the help of Christian discipline. But if this be so, is it any wonder that we find so few Christians; for where is Christian discipline

Let me daily grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you.

We can have no progress without change, whether it be basketball or anything else.

Don't let yesterday take up too much of today.