Quotes about Expansion

Narrow is the mansion of my soul; enlarge Thou it, that Thou mayest enter in.

Beware the man of a single book.

The mother's love is at first an absorbing delight, blunting all other sensibilities; it is an expansion of the animal existence.

The surest way to stop growing is to stop reading.

A miracle is when the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. A miracle is when one plus one equals a thousand.

Each moment of our existence, we are either growing into more or retreating into less.

Instead of expanding our capacity for life, joy, and mystery, religion often contracts it. As systematic theology advances, the sense of wonder declines. The paradoxes, contradictions, and ambiguities of life are codified, cabined, and confined within the pages of a leather-bound book. Instead of a love story the Bible is viewed as a detailed manual of directions.

Those you have deeply loved become part of you. The longer you live, there will always be more people to be loved by you and to become part of your inner community. The wider your inner community becomes, the more easily you will recognize your own brothers and sisters in the strangers around you.

I must walk toward Oregon, and not toward Europe. And that way the nation is moving, and I may say that mankind progress from east to west. Within a few years we have witnessed the phenomenon of a southeastward migration, in the settlement of Australia; but this affects us as a retrograde movement, and, judging from the moral and physical character of the first generation of Australians, has not yet proved a successful experiment.

Out of the trunk, the branches grow; out of them, the twigs. So, in productive subjects, grow the chapters.

I've chosen to GROW, to EXPAND, to INCREASE and to become RICHER - because i want to BLESS the world more.

God wants to do immeasurably more in & through your life than you could ask.