Quotes About Development

When does a novel begin? The question is almost as difficult to answer as the question, when does the human embryo become a person?

The heavier a mother became in pregnancy, the heavier her offspring were likely to be, both at birth and in mid-childhood, possibly accounting for several hundred thousand annual cases of obesity worldwide.

God prunes us when He is about to take us into a new season of growth and expansion.

We are, all of us, growing volcanoes that approach the hour of their eruption, but how near or distant that is, nobody knows- not even God.

Thank God for giving you this world as a moral gymnasium to help your development, but never imagine you can help the world.

God has a program of character development for each of us. He wants others to look at our lives and say, He walks with God, for he lives like Christ.

God never put anyone in a place too small to grow in.

God's priority isn't your destination but your development. God's priority isn't the dream but the dreamer.

The more the diamond is cut the brighter it sparkles; and in what seems hard dealing, there God has no end in view but to perfect His people.

Beware of harking back to what you once were when God wants you to be something you have never been.

God is more interested in developing your character than keeping you comfortable.

I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and serve, be patient. God is not finished with me yet.

Human development, not secularization, is what's key to women's empowerment in the transforming Middle East.

The fact is, almost every move of God is, in some ways, profoundly different from the previous ways that He has moved.

God works according to the law of gradual growth, so don't be discouraged if your progress seems slow.

God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.

God is still in the process of dispensing gifts, and He uses ordinary individuals like us to develop those gifts in other people

Every one, though born of God in an instant, yet undoubtedly grows by slow degrees.

I believe God promotes you when you graduate from the level that you're on.

God has the tough end of the deal. What if instead of planting the seed you had to make the tree? That would keep you up late at night, trying to figure that one out.

What did turtles evolve from? Really, I want to know. And for God's sake, don't say lizards, because turtles are nothing like lizards. They could not be more different.

There are people who are uncanny, who are finished products at a young age. I wasn't, thank God.

Christians aren't finished products. We're God's sons and daughters in process.

Talent can be developed, gift is God-given. But artists have both.