Spiritual Growth And Development Quotes

#1. 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

#2. [Spiritual] Practices are not for know-it-alls. Practices are for those who feel the need for change, growth, development, learning. Practices are for disciples.

Brian D. McLaren

#3. You are never left out from having the experience of love. You can always give and receive love right from where you are at. It's always up to you.

Renae A. Sauter

#4. Forgiving someone else doesn't give them a free pass. It gives you a free pass to move on.

Charles F. Glassman

#5. Your inner strength is your outer foundation

Allan Rufus

#6. If soul does not evolve it is dead ... even if its body still breathes.

T.F. Hodge

#7. We are here for the evolution of our soul. This evolution happens through the management of both the ups and downs of physical life. Evolution is halted by pretending to be happy all the time

Renae A. Sauter

#8. Rethink Your Success Mindset: At the end of your life, the only things that really matter ... are matters of your heart.

Tony Dovale

#9. The understanding of "evolutionary consciousness" is perhaps the most important thing lacking in spiritual practices today. Evolution means growth and development. This means that there are aspects of reality that have not yet arisen in our consciousness. But they will arise if we grow.

Ken Wilber

#10. Choosing to interpret all your experiences from a place of love will allow you to strengthen and empower yourself, while moving closer to the divine light.

Renae A. Sauter

#11. Silence embeds thoughts better than speeches. If you are afraid of silence, you are afraid of your thoughts.

Rossana Condoleo

#12. Spiritual growth requires the development of inner knowing and inner authority. It requires the heart, not the intellect.

Gary Zukav

#13. Spiritual grace adds to a life and it is crucial ingredient in any person's quest to attain self-realization.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#14. Evolution is the gradual development and stratification of progressive series of wholes, stretching from the inorganic beginnings to the highest level of spiritual creation.

Jan Smuts

#15. The ego with its protective defense mechanisms is the biggest impediment to attaining spiritual growth.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#16. Recurring dreams for some may seem like a punishment; the reality is it is done out of love to enable your spiritual enhancement.

Pamela Cummins

#17. To say, "I've been converted and that's that," is to say you have decided to quit growing. If life is about anything, it is about growing. The day I quit changing and learning is the day I die.

Steve Goodier

#18. Spiritual dreams are meant to comfort us during difficult times, show us how much we have grown, and encourage us to go to a higher level.

Pamela Cummins

#19. A regular meditation practice is one of the highest forms of self-love.

Renae A. Sauter

#20. When you really want something, and you couple that with an understanding of your nature, of your spiritual being, and the law that govern you, you will keep going, regardless of what's happened. Nothing will stop you.

Bob Proctor

#21. I remain in a state of surrender knowing the Universe is supporting me in creating a life I love.

Renae A. Sauter

#22. Being human is a portal into your divinity,

Renae A. Sauter

#23. 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

#24. Hate gets no god.

Fakeer Ishavardas

#25. Peace is something that comes from within. It is
created by your willingness to accept yourself.

Jason Nelson

#26. Spiritual authority is the direct result of God doing a greater work in the deeper areas of a leader's life.

Gary Rohrmayer

#27. God expects you to have the mentality of a conqueror. See yourself as a victor in Christ Jesus, and go about life with a holy swagger!

Pedro Okoro

#28. Any person or thing of significance to you unconsciously plays a role in mirroring your own internal universe, just as you do theirs.

Nebo D. Lukovich

#29. You must make time daily for your physical, emotional, mental and spiritual development.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#30. Wise individuals frequently say very little, but what they do say hits the mark. Such remarks often remain in the mind of the recipient for a long time, possibly a lifetime.

Donna Goddard

#31. The Universe cares more about your empowerment and freedom from fear than it does just about anything. It's really true

Renae A. Sauter

#32. Rabbi Elazar ben Azariah said, "Where there is no money, there is no learning." The rabbis explain that unless people's stomachs are full and satisfied, they cannot study, grow spiritually, and do good works.

H.W. Charles

#33. It's more important to struggle with a question than to come up with an answer.

Edward Shirley

#34. That deep longing that you keep dismissing as impractical, may be the very thing your soul is calling you to do.

Renae A. Sauter

#35. The shaping of character mimics the smallest detail of habit; humans are creatures that learn from observation. Each little thing you do, and each thing you allow yourself to become desensitized to matters. They create you - whether you know it consciously or not.

Grace Sara

#36. All knowledge pursued merely for the enrichment of personal learning and the accumulation of personal treasure leads you away from the path; but all knowledge pursued for growth to ripeness within the process of human ennoblement and cosmic development brings you a step forward.

Rudolf Steiner

#37. God's discipline has nothing to do with rejection but more to do with refinement.

Gary Rohrmayer

#38. Suffering is an essential component of life. No person escapes suffering, which is indivisible from life itself. Suffering is what places in in contact with the self; it is what allows us to understand the spiritual nature behind our existence.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#39. A wise man lights a candle while fools are busy cursing the darkness

Seth Czerepak

#40. Our outer relationships are a mirror of the relationship and communication between our own inner male and female sides. Our outer relationships with a man or a woman are a possibility to understand our own inner man or woman.

Swami Dhyan Giten

#41. I am a spiritual person living in a human body, not a human body with a spirit.

Bob Proctor

#42. Not God, but man-made gods kill, by self-will.

Fakeer Ishavardas

#43. A person must cultivate their personal tutelary spirit in order to achieve their ultimate visage.

Kilroy J. Oldster