Top 100 Quotes About Spiritual Growth
#2. The true measure of spiritual growth is not how much you've learned in the past year but how much you've grown in holiness.
Mike Bullmore
#3. I have defined love as the will to extend oneself for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth. Genuine love is volitional rather than emotional. The person who truly loves does so because of a decision to love.
M. Scott Peck
#4. Some day (when we have enough spiritual growth) we will come to see that the seemingly disjointed happenings, the apparent accidents, are really part of an orderly pattern.
Emmet Fox
#5. should only obey God when we feel like it; only that preaching Christianity primarily as a set of new behaviors will create people who act right without ever loving the right.1 This creates hypocrites, weary and resentful of God. What Is "Real" Spiritual Growth?
J.D. Greear
#6. The first step toward spiritual growth is to become aware of your emotions.
Gary Zukav
#7. Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth.
Mary Antin
#8. I know that Julia has been given to me for my spiritual growth, and this moment is perfect for us both. I know that I love her, and I know she's my soul mate.
Kenny Loggins
#9. Just as the Word of God is used in conversion, so it is a critical instrument in our spiritual growth. By immersing ourselves in the Word of God, we begin to gain the mind of Christ and learn what discipleship is.
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R.C. Sproul
#10. It may sound harsh to say, but the number-one contributor to spiritual growth is not sermons, books, or small groups; the number-one contributor to spiritual growth is difficult circumstances.
Kyle Idleman
#11. The widespread assumption that ethical behavior takes the fun out of life is false. In actuality, living ethically ensures that relationships in our lives, including encounters with strangers, nurture our spiritual growth.
Bell Hooks
#12. Synchronistic events offer us perceptions that may be useful in our psychological and spiritual growth and may reveal to us, through intuitive knowledge, that our lives have meaning.
Jean Shinoda Bolen
#13. Spiritual growth is marked by a growing realization of just how much grace you need.
Tullian Tchividjian
#14. When every situation which life can offer is turned to the profit of spiritual growth, no situation can really be a bad one.
Paul Brunton
#15. Many people find spiritual growth possible only when times are hard; prosperity tends to promote complacency.
Max Anders
#16. Spiritual growth is more than procedure, it's a wild search for God in the midst of the tangled jungle of our souls, a search for which involves a volatile mix of messy reality, wild freedom, frustrating stuckness, increasing slowness and a healthy dose of gratitude
Mike Yaconelli
#17. Many conflicts in a marriage result from living to please self instead of living to please the Lord. These conflicts can be resolved and are actually opportunities for spiritual growth when dealt with in a biblical manner.
John C. Broger
#18. If we have a heart to learn and a willingness to follow the example of children, their divine attributes can hold a key to unlocking our own spiritual growth.
Jean A. Stevens
#19. Spiritual growth is the only real growth
Radhe Maa
#20. As we begin to transform, illness and pain can also be seen as a "messenger" for spiritual growth. What does this illness mean? What can I learn from this? Why is the occurring in my life
Teresa DeCicco
#21. A true Christian does not see God's promise of forgiveness as a license to sin, a way to abuse His love and presume on His grace. Rather, he sees God's gracious forgiveness as the means to spiritual growth and sanctification. He continually thanks God for His great love and willingness to forgive.
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#22. Complacency is easy ... and it is a deadly foe of spiritual growth.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#23. As I see it, religion is at its best when it leads us forward, when it guides us in our spiritual growth as individuals and in our cultural evolution as a species. Unfortunately,
Brian McLaren
#24. I define love thus: The will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.
M. Scott Peck
#25. Spiritual growth thrives in the midst of our problems, not in their absence. Spiritual growth occurs in the trenches of life, not in the classroom.
Mike Yaconelli
#26. Humility is the most important quality in the spiritual life. When it is lacking spiritual growth stops.
Frederick Lenz
#27. Prayer should not be so much about petitioning God as it should be about promoting our own spiritual growth.
Andrew Wommack
#28. The only true end of love is spiritual growth or human evolution.
M. Scott Peck
#29. Although spiritual growth puts our wills to the test, after the battle has been won, we recognize that the Lord is the true victor in the struggle.
Max Anders
#31. It is not sex per se - your identification with the body is the impediment to your spiritual growth.
Jaggi Vasudev
#32. At a certain point I left my spiritual teacher because I began to see the limitations of my teacher, who was a very powerful occultist, but who I thought was, to some extent, limiting others in their spiritual growth.
Frederick Lenz
#33. Complacency is a deadly foe of all spiritual growth.
A.W. Tozer
#34. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning.
M. Scott Peck
#35. At the soul level, we get precisely what we need in our lives for our spiritual growth. How we judge what we get determines whether we experience life as painful or joyful.
Colin Tipping
#36. The more difficult it is to forgive someone the greater the opportunity for spiritual growth.
Gabrielle Bernstein
#37. Spiritual growth and creativity are two sides of the same coin.
Lada Ray
#38. It is essential that you realize that you are nothing in yourself. If you are rich and satisfied, you cannot receive anything from God. It is frightful to meet that spirit in a person. It totally hinders all spiritual growth and development.
Esther Smith
#39. Prayer by itself is like a diet without protein! Prayer is important to our spiritual growth - but of even greater importance is God's Word, the Bible.
Billy Graham
#40. The degree of Spiritual growth is directly proportionate to the degree of personal freedom; your very own individuality.
Gian Kumar
#41. In order to grasp the principles of spiritual growth, you need to be filled with understanding and the wisdom of God.
Sunday Adelaja
#42. One of the essential requirements for
true spiritual growth and deep personal
transformation is coming to peace with
pain.
Michael Singer
#43. Spiritual growth increases our sense of what's possible. And as we sense new possibility, we can step into that possibility. With every word, every thought, every action, we choose what we wish to call forth in life.
Marianne Williamson
#44. Many Christians were suddenly prepared to look at traditional methods of spiritual formation. They could not help but see that spiritual growth and vitality stem from what we actually do with our lives, from the habits we form, and from the character that results.
Dallas Willard
#45. Everything that happens in life is there to aid our spiritual growth.
M. Scott Peck
#46. There are three fundamental phases to psychological and spiritual growth: being with difficult material (e.g., old wounds, anger); releasing it; and replacing it with something more beneficial.
Rick Hanson
#47. Spiritual growth is not about climbing a mountain, getting better, and therefore needing Christ less and less. Spiritual growth is about discovering more and bigger caverns of need into which more and more of Christ's grace can flow.
Tullian Tchividjian
#48. Unfortunate events though potentially a source of anger and despair have equal potential to be a source of spiritual growth. Whether or not this is the outcome depends on your response.
Dalai Lama
#49. It is God who is the source of the evolutionary force and God who is the destination ... the ultimate goal of spiritual growth is for the individual to become one with God.
M. Scott Peck
#50. There is one thing that destroys anyone's ability to advance spiritually: the inability to control the mind and emotions. In order to free the mechanism for spiritual growth, this control is the first step in beginning a spiritual life.
Rudrananda
#51. Maturity is about how you live your life. It is possible to be theologically astute and be very immature. It is possible to be biblically literate and be in need of significant spiritual growth.
Paul David Tripp
#52. Spiritual growth is like childbirth: you dilate, then you contract, you dilate, then you contract again. as painful as it all feels, it's the necessary rhythm for reaching the ultimate goal of total openness.
Marianne Williamson
#53. Love is the will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth ... Love is as love does. Love is an act of will
namely, both an intention and an action. Will also implies choice. We do not have to love. We choose to love.
M. Scott Peck
#54. Physical growth is a function of time. No two-year-old child has ever been six feet tall. Intellectual growth is a function of learning. Spiritual growth is neither a function of time or learning, but it is a function of obedience.
John Bevere
#55. Although the act of nurturing another's spiritual growth has the effect of nurturing one's own, a major characteristic of genuine love is that the distinction between oneself and the other is always maintained and preserved.
M. Scott Peck
#56. The greater your trust, the greater your spiritual growth.
Connie Rossini
#57. When people confront the past - their sins, wounds, and curses - they experience amazing joy, freedom, and spiritual growth. They move from just the assurance of their salvation to an experience of divine deliverance.
Chris Hodges
#58. So the first reason for studying Scripture is that it is a means of spiritual growth. There is none apart from the Word. It is God's primary tool to develop you as an individual.
Howard G. Hendricks
#59. I believe natural beauty has a necessary place in the spiritual development of any individual or any society. I believe that whenever we substitute something man-made and artificial for a natural feature of the earth, we have retarded some part of man's spiritual growth.
Rachel Carson
#60. Inner peace is impossible without patience. Wisdom requires patience. Spiritual growth implies the mastery of patience. Patience allows the unfolding of destiny to proceed at its won unhurried pace.
Brian L. Weiss
#61. If you look back on a period of psychological or spiritual growth, you'll generally find that it's when you've let go of something that you have made progress. It's the letting go that allows you to expand and grow.
Ian Watson
#62. Spiritual growth doesn't happen automatically and is rarely pretty; we will all be "under construction" until the day we die and we finally take hold of the "life that is truly life" (1 Tim. 6:19).
Kay Warren
#63. A spiritual partnership is a partnership between equals for the purpose of spiritual growth. Spiritual partners use their delightful experiences together as well as their power struggles to learn about themselves and change themselves.
Gary Zukav
#64. Many people are so poor that the only thing they have is money. Cultivate your spiritual growth.
Rodolfo Costa
#65. The singing of our sacred hymns, written by the servants of God, has a powerful effect in converting people to the principles of the Gospel, and in promoting peace and spiritual growth.
Heber J. Grant
#66. The (bible) teacher predicts and defines the route and pace of the spiritual growth of his students. This is because it is to the degree of the knowledge of CHRIST in a disciple that we can measure his spiritual growth.
Christian Michael
#67. Sadly, when pastors choose to neglect controversial issues, they do great damage to the spiritual growth of their congregates. We have generations of young people in our churches who simply believe what the world believes on social and moral issues, and they don't think biblically on these matters.
Ken Ham
#68. The most tried and true way to put God first is to read His Word, the Bible, and obey it. There are no shortcuts to spiritual growth.
Jim George
#69. As you become multi-sensory, you begin to see yourself as a soul first and a personality second. You begin to experience yourself as more than a body and more than a mind. and the circumstances around you as meaningful and designed for your spiritual growth.
Gary Zukav
#70. Spiritual growth is more than a procedure; it's a wild search for God in the tangled jungle of our souls.
Michael Yaconelli
#71. Spiritual growth requires the development of inner knowing and inner authority. It requires the heart, not the intellect.
Gary Zukav
#72. Spiritual growth involves giving up the stories of your past so the universe can write a new one.
Marianne Williamson
#73. You don't really know who you are until you have gone through suffering. We can measure our spiritual growth by the way we behave under pressure.
Edward T. Welch
#74. Spirit is the source of life. In growth, reside germs of happiness. So always take action for spiritual growth for eternal happiness.
Debasish Mridha
#75. Joy is hidden in sorrow and sorrow in joy. If we try to avoid sorrow at all costs, we may never taste joy, and if we are suspicious of ecstasy, agony can never reach us either. Joy and sorrow are the parents of our spiritual growth.
Henri Nouwen
#76. Even professing Christians, by and large, devote to their spiritual growth and well-being a tiny fraction of the time they devote to their body, and it is even tinier fraction if we include what they worry about.
Dallas Willard
#77. Trying to eliminate worldly temptations
only makes our spiritual growth limited.
Toba Beta
#78. Emotions are messengers that carry information. Spiritual growth depends upon receiving that information & using it.
Gary Zukav
#79. When we understand love as the will to nurture our own and another's spiritual growth, it becomes clear that we cannot claim to love if we are hurtful and abusive. Love and abusive cannot coexist. Abuse and neglect are, by definition, the opposites of nurturance and care.
Bell Hooks
#80. Becoming integrated and whole is the spiritual path. The body is your vehicle. Your job is to learn about yourself from your experiences and change yourself. This is spiritual growth.
Gary Zukav
#81. You are living in a time when opportunities for self-empowerment, expanded awareness and spiritual growth appear to be unlimited.
Barbara Marciniak
#82. Remember, that which appeals to the ego cannot help your spiritual growth.
Osho
#83. The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one.
M. Scott Peck
#84. Genuine love not only respects the individuality of the other but actually cultivates it, even at the risk of separation or loss. The ultimate goal of life remains the spiritual growth of the individual, the solitary journey to peaks that can be climbed only alone.
M. Scott Peck
#85. Or some people may yearn for riches, not for money's sake but in order to send their children to college or provide themselves with the freedom and time for study and reflection which are necessary for their own spiritual growth. It is not power or money that such people love; it is humanity.
M. Scott Peck
#86. We may speak of love and humility as the true flowers of spiritual growth; and they give off a wonderful scent, which benefits all those who come near.
Teresa Of Avila
#87. People do not believe that there is something like Sahaja Yoga, that there is a power in every human being which is universal and which can be enlightened. It is something beyond the conception of human beings that they can achieve this kind of a spiritual growth within themselves.
Nirmala Srivastava
#88. Spiritual growth-looking inward-is replacing the pursuit of external power-reaching outward to manipulate and control-as the cure for the insecurity at the core of human experience.
Gary Zukav
#89. Anger, resentment, and bitterness stunt our spiritual growth. Would you bathe in impure water? Then why do we bathe our spirits with negative and bitter thoughts and feelings? You can cleanse your heart. You don't have to harbor thoughts and feelings that drag you down and destroy your spirit.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#90. If I truly love another, I will obviously order my behavior in such a way as to contribute the utmost to his or her spiritual growth.
M. Scott Peck
#91. Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love.
M. Scott Peck
#92. ...no one who has ever lived through the unmasking of one ideology, taken uncritically as the truth about human life, will be quite as vulnerable to the absolutizing of another.
-Sexuality and Spiritual Growth
Joan H. Timmerman
#93. As my spiritual growth expanded and developed, voluntary simplicity was a natural outgrowth. I came to realize the cost of material accumulation was too high and offered fewer and fewer real rewards, psychological and spiritual.
Duane Elgin
#94. The ability to handle stress increases with the practice of meditation. In a culture like ours in which inner, spiritual growth is totally neglected in favor of materialistic pursuits, we might have something to learn from the Hare Krishna devotees' meditational practices.
Daniel Goleman
#95. Maybe it's because spiritual growth and vibrant faith in God don't happen in isolation, but under pressure.
Lynn Austin
#96. The history of the creative progress of individual artists shows that, along with their spiritual growth and the increasing complexity of their inner life, their forms of expression become more complex.
Mieczyslaw Jastrun
#97. Similarly, loving spouses must repeatedly confront each other if the marriage relationship is to serve the function of promoting the spiritual growth of the partners. No marriage can be judged truly successful unless husband and wife are each other's best critics.
M. Scott Peck
#98. If education recognizes the intrinsic value of the child's personality and provides an environment suited to spiritual growth, we have the revelation of an entirely new child whose astonishing characteristics can eventually contribute to the betterment of the world.
Maria Montessori
#99. I'm just telling you, God permits things in our lives sometimes for reasons that we do not understand yet because of the spiritual level that we're on. We can't have any understanding of it, because we're not at a place of spiritual growth yet where we understand the deeper things of God.
Joyce Meyer
#100. Although others may feel sorry for you, never feel sorry for yourself: it has a deadly effect on spiritual well-being. Recognize all problems, no matter how difficult, as opportunities for spiritual growth, and make the most of these opportunities.
Peace Pilgrim
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