Spiritual Growth Quotes

“God has such gladness every time he sees from heaven that a sinner is praying to Him with all his heart, as a mother has when she sees the first smile on her baby's face.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot

“As soon as you stop making everyone else responsible for your happiness, the happier you’ll be.”
― Nina Guilbeau

“One of the first things we learn from our teachers is discernment: the ability to tell truth from fiction, to know when we have lost our center and how to find it again. Discernment is also one of the last things we learn, when we feel our paths diverge and we must separate from our mentors in order to stay true to ourselves.”
― Anne Hill, The Baby and the Bathwater

“A misleading perception or false belief is increasingly being perpetuated that the unconscious or the intuitive is all that really matters in any spiritual endeavor, and that the conscious, rational, logical, analytical mind is the mortal enemy of spiritual awareness and soul growth.”
― Anthon St. Maarten, Divine Living: The Essential Guide To Your True Destiny

“Little faults become great, and even monstrous in our eyes, in proportion as the pure light of God increases in us; just as the sun in rising, reveals the true dimensions of objects which were dimly and confusedly discovered during the night.”
― François Fénelon, Spiritual Progress

“we are affirming our trust that creation means well within us all, and that whatever painful growth and change may lie ahead, it is leading us to Life, not destruction”
― Margaret Silf , Sacred Spaces: Stations on a Celtic Way

“It is the darkness that makes the light visible, and not the other way around.”
― Nancy Venable Raine, After Silence: Rape & My Journey Back

“We stand before a burning bush whenever other human beings share with us something of their relationship with God or something of the movements of their hearts. In such moments may we always realize that we stand on holy ground”
― Margaret Silf

“Even the juncture in history and the zeitgeist we live in is something we choose, setting the scene for the spiritual fodder we need to grow and achieve deeper elevation of our souls.”
― Raquel Cepeda, Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

“Some days I like to wander to old and warn our places, forests ripped apart by man and streams that carry stagnant water where it use to flow. There is a sense of clarity in these places, a reflection of who I am or atleast who I have been. Broken, yet still incredibly beautiful.”
― Nikki Rowe

“Love is all that awaits you.”
― Howard Falco

“You are exactly who you need to be in this moment. Don't begrudge that or justify it.”
― Jennifer Mclean, The Big Book of You

“It is not possible to be seduced by the lure of ego-gratification or intimidated by the tyranny of imposters when we know that we are as the angels. We are loved beyond comprehension. So, we must claim our rightful inheritance and live with the confidence of protection.”
― Donna Goddard, The Love of Devotion

“What you gain another will lose, for What is there is all there is. What you share another will have, for What is there is enough for all.”
― Rohan and Mohan Perera (World of Ro and Mo), Another Day From the World of Ro and Mo

“Prefiero estar bajo la supervisión de Dios, y ser moldeada aunque duela; que
estar bajo el pie del enemigo y sentir que no valgo nada”
― Theiska Castillo Medina, Se Fijó en mí

“It is warmer here. Can you see the light? Trust it. It is safe. It has lived a long time. It has seen much more than you. You fight a demon that you once knew but the demon is already slain. And from the corner of your eye you will see the scattered, sacred fire reform again. Settle, settle. Peace, peace”
― Donna Goddard, Love's Longing

“Walk a bit further.
There is a different land not far away.
The people in it have the magic to break the icy fingers of the great death.
I heard that you don’t even have to pay.
However, you have to find their door.
It is only found by those who pay the other price.”
― Donna Goddard, Love's Longing

“More than nakedness,
for there is no cover to take.
The fire in your eyes
is ringed with water; wide and cool.
We are far from the brutal place,
but you do not think so.
You take my hand
and disappear like you were never there,
except that I am now somewhere else.”
― Donna Goddard, Love's Longing

“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, The Love of Being Loving

“We work very hard to have what Buddha gave up to become enlightened. Does that mean we are benighted?”
― Rohan and Mohan Perera (World of Ro and Mo), Three Days from the World of Ro and Mo

“If love isn't there, nothing will grow. If it is, there is always hope and it will win in the end. Love is vital and sacrosanct.”
― Donna Goddard

“We do not just go through life blindly,we create our own journey.

Your faith has sculpted you into the human being you have become.”
― Judie McCarty, Finding Your Wings: Unleashing Your Creative Powers

“We are spiritual beings - indestructible, immaterial and safe.”
― Donna Goddard

“Faith changes us - faith in something intrinsically good, something other than ourselves, something bigger than ourselves.”
― Donna Goddard

“It could be said that we become so much a stranger that we disappear and find ourselves reborn in the midst of humanity which is quite a paradox.”
― Donna Goddard, Love s Longing

“I have been driven to desperation more times than I can count. But it is here that I have been driven to the greatest inspiration that I can contain.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Soul Mates share complementary, compatible life goals and their spiritual natures are often in sync with ours. They also experience an immense level of comfort with each other that cannot be experienced in other relationships, and they complement each other in many ways through their strengths and weaknesses.”
― Aletheia Luna, Twin Flames and Soul Mates: How to Find, Create, and Sustain Awakened Relationships

“Getting in touch with the beauty of nature makes life much more beautiful, much more real, and the more mindful and concentrated you are, the more deeply the sunset will reveal itself to you. Your happiness is multiplied by ten, by twenty. Look at a leaf or a flower with mindfulness, listen to the song of a bird, and you will get much more deeply in touch with them. After a minute of this practice, your joy will increase; your breathing will become deeper and more gentle; and this gentleness and depth will influence your body.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, You Are Here: Discovering the Magic of the Present Moment

“The seed of a mountain pine contains the whole future tree in a latent form; but each seed falls at a certain time onto a particular place, in which there are a number of special factors, such as the quality of the soil and the stones, the slope of the land, and its exposure to sun and wind. The latent totality of the pine in the seed reacts to these circumstances by avoiding the stones and inclining toward the sun, with the result that the tree’s growth is shaped. Thus an individual pine slowly comes into existence, constituting the fulfillment of its totality, its emergence into the realm of reality. Without the living tree, the image of the pine is only a possibility or an abstract idea. Again, the realization of this uniqueness in the individual man is the goal of the process of individuation.”
― C.G. Jung, Man and His Symbols

“Seems like we have to spend a lot of our time distracting ourselves from the ugliness of life, doesn’t it? Like I’ve done just now. That’s why we attend plays, go to movies, read books, watch TV…and ride motorcycles: to connect with something that reveals some of the beauty of life and reminds us of what it could be like if we would all focus on these pleasurable joys instead of thinking up more creative ways to torture and harm and kill each other.”
― John Russell, Riding with Ghosts, Angels, and the Spirits of the Dead