“We are so prone to expect to become good Christians by some sudden experience that lifts us all at once to higher ground without the gradual climb. We forget that we are to "grow in grace" and that normal growth is not a matter of fits and starts.” MatterChristianGrowsGrowthForgetGraceHigherFitNormalChristian InspirationalLiftsClimbsGood ChristianHigher Ground Author:Vance Havner
“The system concedes nothing without demand, for it formulates its very method of operation on the basis that the ignorant will learn to know, the child will grow into an adult and therefore demands will begin to be made. It gears itself to resist demands in whatever way it sees fit.” KnowsWayChildrenMadeGrowsFitDemandAdultsBasesMethodIgnorantMade ItOperationsGears Author:Steven Biko
“Can it be that even as one grows to fit the space one lives in, one cannot grow until there's space to grow?” GrowsSpaceFit Author:Rita Dove
“God has not chosen to save us without crosses; as He has not seen fit to create men at once in the full vigor of manhood, but has suffered them to grow up by degrees amid all the perils and weaknesses of youth.” MenGrowsGrowing UpYouthFitDegreesWeaknessCrossesTrialsChosenManhoodPerilVigor Book:Spiritual Progress Source: Spiritual Progress
“We're all flawed human beings and we all have a cauldron of psychosis which we have to unravel as we grow older and find the way we fit in to live our lives as best as possible.” WayHumansGrowsHuman BeingsOur LivesFitFlawedPsychosisCauldrons Author:Tom Hardy
“When I was growing up, all I wanted to do was fit in, but if you're perpetually an outsider, it gives you a perspective that might have a little more objectivity than people who really feel connected to their social environment in which they grow up.” PeopleIfsGivingFeelsLittlesMightWantedSocialGrowsGrowing UpEnvironmentGrowingPerspectiveFitConnectedOutsidersObjectivitySocial Environment Author:Moby
“Complicated Grief was written in larger and more coherent (if disparate) shapes. The question was how they fit together. The mind is coherent, trust that was the best writing advice I ever got (I got it from Carole Maso and I pass it on). It's true, and clearer and clearer as one grows and gains an improved sense of who one actually is (as versus who one was supposed to be).” IfsWritingMindTogetherGrowsGriefWrittenAdviceFitShapesGainsComplicatedSupposed To BeVersusWriting AdviceComplicated Grief Author:Laura Mullen