Quotes about Growth

Therefore, we cannot rightly say, "My God is not a God of judgment and anger; my God is a God of love." Such thinking makes it almost impossible to grow in the fear of the Lord. It suggests that sin only saddens God rather than offends him. Both justice and love are expressions of his holiness, and we must know both to learn the fear of the Lord.

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.

Student: Dr. Einstein, Aren't these the same questions as last year's [physics] final exam? Dr. Einstein: Yes; But this year the answers are different.

a person who never make a mistake, never tried anything new.

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.

Dare to face the situation...Man has become a superman... But the superman with the superhuman power has not risen to the level of superhuman reason. To the degree which his power grows he becomes more and more a poor man... It must shake up our conscience that we become all the more inhuman the more we grow into superhuman.

I don't want to be a prisoner of comfort.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.