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Quotes About Growth

It's a paradox of the true spiritual path, but the more conscious we become of what limits us, the more limitless becomes our life.
~ Guy Finley
The more one makes spiritual advancement, one feels humble and as one's devotion is superficial that much he feels that he is a great devotee.
~ Radhanath Swami
Spiritual entrepreneurship is the unsung route to growth in the modern economy.
~ Ted Malloch
True love is a process. True love requires personal action.
~ Marvin J. Ashton
It is precisely in times of spiritual dryness that we must hold on to our spiritual discipline so that we can grow into new intimacy with God.
~ Henri Nouwen
Spiritual direction is an interpersonal relationship in which we learn how to grow, live, and love in the spiritual life.
~ Richard Foster
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
Spiritual education is not a distinct and separate discipline; it is part and parcel of all types and levels of education, In fact, it is the very foundation on which a lasting edifice can be built.
~ Sathya Sai Baba
Suffering is not an elective; it is a core course in the University of Life.
~ Steven J Lawson
The pastor who cares about the spiritual growth of his people must make God and His Word the centerpiece of his ministry.
~ Steven J. Law
This bundle of ideas that we have held as being who we are is not actually the one who can make progress in the spiritual realm.
~ Alice Gardner
If I supply you with a thought, you may remember it and you may not. But if I can make you think a thought for yourself, I have indeed added to your stature.
~ Elbert Hubbard
The spiritual process has always been referred to as a journey - constant change.
~ Jaggi Vasudev
We cannot expect miracles of mindfulness in our own lives without preparation, commitment & continuing to energetically progress along our spiritual way.
~ Surya Das
When we avoid the legitimate suffering that results from dealing with problems, we also avoid the growth that problems demand from us.
~ M. Scott Peck
Every truth ever discovered, each new spiritual light that will ever burn bright has already been seeded in our consciousness.
~ Guy Finley
Losing my faith was the most spiritual thing that ever happened to me.
~ Julia Sweeney
Whether it is suffering or joy, going through experiences in life is not so much of a karma. Depriving yourself of any experience is the big karma.
~ Jaggi Vasudev
Let's not grow with our roots in the ground.
~ Criss Jami, Venus in Arms
Take your well-disciplined strengths, stretch them between the two great opposing poles, because inside human beings is where God learns.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.
~ Warren G. Bennis
Conversion is in its essence a normal adolescent phenomenon, incidental to the passage from the child's small universe to the wider intellectual and spiritual life of maturity.
~ William James
Becoming adept at the process of self inquiry and symbolic insight is a vital spiritual task that leads to the growth of faith in oneself.
~ Caroline Myss
When things hurt us, we're merely on our way to another spiritual environment.
~ Myrtle Reed