Quotes About Growth

Everything in your life is there as a vehicle for your transformation. Use it!

The garden is a metaphor for life, and gardening is a symbol of the spiritual path.

The most dangerous condition for a man or a nation is when his intellectual side is more developed than his spiritual. Is that not exactly the condition of the world today?

To me, growing into spiritual maturity is becoming less self-conscious and more God-conscious.

Your career, interests and relationships are important, but they are only important insofar as they lead you toward a deeper understanding of yourself. Otherwise, they are irrelevant.

Life is warning you to get rid of an addiction every time you are emotionally uncomfortable in any way.

The proof of spiritual maturity is not how pure you are but awareness of your impurity. That very awareness opens the door to grace.

If a person seems wicked, do not cast him away. Awaken him with your words, elevate him with your deeds, repay his injury with your kindness. Do not cast him away; cast away his wickedness.

Just by the very nature of our birth, we are on the spiritual journey.

Healing does not mean going back to the way things were before, but rather allowing what is now to move us closer to God.

To become learned, each day add something. To become enlightened, each day drop something

Heartbreak makes us stronger; it's an opportunity for spiritual growth. How can you understand someone else's pain if you have not yourself suffered?

We do not drift into spiritual life or disciplined prayer. We will not grow in prayer unless we plan to pray.

In a strange way the spiritual life isn't "useful" or "successful." But it is meant to be fruitful. And fruitfulness comes out of brokenness.

If we want to be loved, we are looking for a support system. If we want to love, we are looking for spiritual growth.

Open your arms to change but don't let go of your values.

To live two days in succession on the same spiritual plane is a tragedy

There are no mistakes, no coincidences; all events are blessings given to us to learn from.

The very purpose of life is to reach the highest possible flowering.

A ship is always safe at the shore - but that is NOT what it is built for.

You are what you choose to be today. Not what you've chosen to be before.

There's nothing more important on our spiritual path than developing gentleness to oneself.

Learning is experience. Everything else is just information.

Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.