Quotes about Growth
Another angle, one often taken by Christians in the Eastern Orthodox tradition, is to read the Adam story as being not about a fall down from perfection, but a failure to grow up to godly wisdom and maturity.
— Peter Enns
Wisdom leads us to dialogues with the past. It doesn't lead us back to the past.
— Peter Enns
Grace grows best in winter.
— Peter Enns
To put it plainly, the life of faith is the pursuit of wisdom.
— Peter Enns
Adjusting our understanding of God isn't a sign of weak faith, nor is it an attack on faith—it is faith.
— Peter Enns
Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth vegetation: seed-bearing plants and fruit trees, each bearing fruit with seed according to its kind.” And it was so.
— Genesis 1:11
Now no shrub of the field had yet appeared on the earth, nor had any plant of the field sprouted; for the LORD God had not yet sent rain upon the earth, and there was no man to cultivate the ground.
— Genesis 2:5
Out of the ground the LORD God gave growth to every tree that is pleasing to the eye and good for food. And in the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
— Genesis 2:9
Both thorns and thistles it will yield for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.
— Genesis 3:18
Now when men began to multiply on the face of the earth and daughters were born to them,
— Genesis 6:1
But as for you, be fruitful and multiply; spread out across the earth and multiply upon it.”
— Genesis 9:7
Now Noah, a man of the soil, proceeded to plant a vineyard.
— Genesis 9:20