Quotes about Growth

Change is about learning what is right, acknowledging that it is right, confessing that you have been wrong, committing to a new way of living, and seeking the help you need to do it. (66)

Here's how gospel growth works: you cannot grieve what you do not see, you cannot confess what you haven't grieved, and you can't repent of what you haven't confessed.

God has chosen to let you live in this fallen world because he plans to employ the difficulties of it to continue and complete his work in you.

Joyful, perseverant obedience only ever grows in the soil of worship.

In grace, he leads you where you didn't plan to go in order to produce in you what you couldn't achieve on your own.

successful parenting is not about achieving goals (that you have no power to produce) but about being a usable and faithful tool in the hands of the One who alone is able to produce good things in your children.

Midlife doesn't introduce you to a new you; it forces you to admit who you have been all along.

Change begins at the level of the heart.

Let yourself be humbled by how little you know and how few things you are able to do.

Change is about learning what is right, acknowledging that it is right, confessing that you have been wrong, committing to a new way of living, and seeking the help you need to do

But it must be said that maturity is not merely something you do with your mind. No, maturity is about how you live your life. It is possible to be theologically astute in yet very immature. It is possible be biblically literate and in need of significant spiritual growth.

When the Word of God, faithfully taught by the people of God and empowered by the Spirit of God, falls down, people become different.