Quotes about Growth
Whoever has will be given more, and he will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him.
— Matthew 13:12
Consider, then, the parable of the sower:
— Matthew 13:18
The seed sown on rocky ground is the one who hears the word and at once receives it with joy.
— Matthew 13:20
But the seed sown on good soil is the one who hears the word and understands it. He indeed bears fruit and produces a crop—a hundredfold, sixtyfold, or thirtyfold.”
— Matthew 13:23
But while everyone was asleep, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and slipped away.
— Matthew 13:25
When the wheat sprouted and bore grain, then the weeds also appeared.
— Matthew 13:26
‘No,’ he said, ‘if you pull the weeds now, you might uproot the wheat with them.
— Matthew 13:29
Let both grow together until the harvest. At that time I will tell the harvesters: First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned; then gather the wheat into my barn.’”
— Matthew 13:30
He put before them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed that a man planted in his field.
— Matthew 13:31
Although it is the smallest of all seeds, yet it grows into the largest of garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and nest in its branches.”
— Matthew 13:32
He told them still another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like leaven that a woman took and mixed into three measures of flour, until all of it was leavened.”
— Matthew 13:33
But Jesus replied, “Every plant that My heavenly Father has not planted will be pulled up by its roots.
— Matthew 15:13