Quotes about Growth
“Do not call to mind the former things; pay no attention to the things of old.
— Isaiah 43:18
They will sprout among the grass like willows by flowing streams.
— Isaiah 44:4
He cuts down cedars or retrieves a cypress or oak. He lets it grow strong among the trees of the forest. He plants a laurel, and the rain makes it grow.
— Isaiah 44:14
See, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.
— Isaiah 48:10
Yet the children of your bereavement will say in your hearing, ‘This place is too small for us; make room for us to live here.’
— Isaiah 49:20
He grew up before Him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no stately form or majesty to attract us, no beauty that we should desire Him.
— Isaiah 53:2
“Enlarge the site of your tent, stretch out the curtains of your dwellings, do not hold back. Lengthen your ropes and drive your stakes in deep.
— Isaiah 54:2
Instead of the thornbush, a cypress will grow, and instead of the brier, a myrtle will spring up; they will make a name for the LORD, an everlasting sign, never to be destroyed.”
— Isaiah 55:13
The least of you will become a thousand, and the smallest a mighty nation. I am the LORD; in its time I will accomplish it quickly.
— Isaiah 60:22
For as the earth brings forth its growth, and as a garden enables seed to spring up, so the Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise to spring up before all the nations.
— Isaiah 61:11
You planted them, and they have taken root. They have grown and produced fruit. You are ever on their lips, but far from their hearts.
— Jeremiah 12:2
“If you have raced with men on foot and they have worn you out, how can you compete with horses? If you stumble in a peaceful land, how will you do in the thickets of the Jordan?
— Jeremiah 12:5