Quotes about Growth
To be human is to live by sunlight and moonlight, with anxiety and delight, admitting limits and transcending them, falling down and rising up.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
Is Christian faith primarily about being Christian or becoming truly human?
— Barbara Brown Taylor
if you always do what you have always done, then you will always get what you have always got. Extreme measures are sometimes called for, and these measures sometimes even produce results.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
Our shadows are often behind us, where others can see them better than we can. If we want to hear and see more, even the parts that expose our scornfulness, we need partners from outside our ingroups to keep telling us how we sound.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
Greenspan calls this "spiritual bypassing"—using religion to dodge the dark emotions instead of letting it lead us to embrace those dark angels as the best, most demanding spiritual teachers we may ever know.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
If you can forgive the person you were, accept the person you are, and believe in the person you will become, you are headed for joy. So celebrate your life.
— Barbara Johnson
It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.
— Barbara Kingsolver
The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Do you realize that if we could increase just by 50 percent the number of adults who have a college degree, it would add $5 billion to the economy and it would result in a net income to the state of Arkansas of $340 million a year?
— Mike Huckabee
To learn patience is not to rebel against every hardship.
— Henri Nouwen
In the first century A.D., members of the growing Church in Corinth were enthusiastic about the gospel. Almost all were recent converts to the Church. Many were attracted to it through the preaching of the Apostle Paul and others.
— Joseph Wirthlin
I have been a woman for 46 years and I only recently realized I can't change it and I like it.
— Isabel Allende