Spiritual Growth Quotes - Page 2

We can all do so much more than we think we can. Wherever you think you are right now, you can go further, do better, be more than ever! What's wonderful is the future you're looking forward to and also your present potential right now! You're winning regardless. Both now and later.Celebrate you.

We receive the authority when we are born again. As we are made new creatures in Christ Jesus, we inherit the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and we can use it in prayer against the enemy.

The Supreme lesson of Life is Love....

If I had created myself, I would be taller, blond, and more well endowed, financially. I would have cast out spiders and bad-hair days. Therefore, and hence, I believe strongly in a Creator who not only gave me the gift, but the free will to create my own journey through life.

The higher our consciousness the less we are affected by our environment, including race consciousness.

Our parents were our first gods. If parents are loving, nurturing, and kind, this becomes the child’s definition of the creator. If parents were controlling, angry, and manipulative, then this becomes their definition.

Those in true spiritual authority have neither the desire nor the need to control anyone, either directly or subversively.

Salvation belongs to the sinner. Jesus already has bought the salvation of the worst sinner, just as He did for us. That’s the reason He told us to go tell the Good News; go tell sinners they’re reconciled to God.

Original sin is a self-initiating act because it evidences human free will. If humanity were devoid of free will, it would relegate humankind to living by instinct. A person who lives by instinct might survive for an enviable period, but they will never live a heroic existence. Every hero’s story commences with an unsatisfied and optimistic person venturing out from the comfortable confines of their common day world, facing forces of fabulous power, and fighting a magnificent personal battle. The greatest traditional heroes were warriors whom survived on the battlefield and learned valuable lessons of honor, love, loyalty, and courage. Heroic warriors and spiritual seekers undertook a rigorous quest, an enduring ordeal that enabled them to transcend their own personhood’s shallow desire merely to survive. By enduring hardships, experiencing breathtaking encounters with the physical world, and undergoing a spiritual renaissance, the hero gains a hard-won sense self-discovery, comprehends his or her place in society, and accepts their role as a teacher. A hero is a bearer of light, wisdom, and charity. The hero reenters society and shares their culmination of knowledge by devoting their life to teaching other people.

Adversity or time of trouble is an opportunity to either fall or stand, fail or pass, faint or be strong. The choice is yours.

To be whole simply requires paying attention to oneself

Believe in your infinite potential. Your only limitations are those you set upon yourself.

Starting to believe Life is just a sigh of Death.

Seek to know your sacred soul.

Trying to eliminate worldly temptations only makes our spiritual growth limited.

When you wish to talk to someone, talk to Jesus, He loves to hear you speak.

May you know always that you are never alone, that life and love are eternal, and that you are extraordinary.

The person who is wrapped up in God keeps moving. That is the difference between a Spirit on fire and a Spirit that's burning out. From the book: Removing Your Shame Label.

The slow pace of our perfection has to be borne with patience, provided that on our part we always do whatever we can to continue advancing.

Everything is created twice, first in the mind and then in reality.

When you are always ready for the worst, then the worst is likely to show up

Your intuition is the pilot's seat of your soul. If you don't trust it, you'll keep missing the most important of destinations in life.

Quotes and notes to self – Find your inner peace!Don’tbe caught up in your outer world.Paygreater attention to your inner world

Love is a powerful force. There is nothing in this world, no other energy, as powerful as the force of genuine, unconditional love.

Not all experience the same sentiment while doing the same exact activity.

Sexual satisfaction is a dissatisfaction to the spiritual life.

Our Creator has always known of us and has always loved us.

Accomplishments don’t erase shame, hatred, cruelty, silence, ignorance, discrimination, low self-esteem or immorality. It covers it up, with a creative version of pride and ego. Only restitution, forgiving yourself and others, compassion, repentance and living with dignity will ever erase the past.

We are stronger than we think. We have emotional, spiritual and even physical resources at our disposal. We may get knocked down, but we don’t have to stay down.

You have returned from the lesser jihad to the greater jihad (jihad alakbar).”His followers asked him what that greater jihad was. “The struggle against your passionate soul,” he replied.‘So what does this greater jihad entail?’ I asked him.‘It is the effort to practise our faith,’ Gai replied. ‘To pray five times every day is an effort, to veil one’s selfish desires and conduct life in accordance with Islamic ethics and laws. The greatest “spiritual warriors” are the saints armed not with weapons but with prayer and prayer beads.’ While it all made sense I wanted to know more about the idea that we needed to go out and fight jihad.

Dr. Enoch Ngo'ma, said, "Your spiritual battle that has nothing to define your capabilities. May the favour of the Lord overshadow you at this time.

Your life purpose is about you. It is a tangible, practical, everyday way to be that evolves over time as you mature. It is not just a new age, cheesy, flaky, peace and love statement. It is the greatness of who you are taking meaningful action. This is how you stay healthy and happy. Then and only then does your energy ripple out to make the world a better place.

Enlightenment is the Goal - Love is the Game - Taking steps are the rules! - Allan Rufus

What an inspiring book. Thank heaven Lee Thornton decided to share her remarkable life story with us. Lee's book is a blessing as well as a terrific read.

The best gift you can give your children is to keep yourself emotionally, physically, spiritually and intellectually healthy.

In order to grasp the principles of spiritual growth, you need to be filled with understanding and the wisdom of God.

A balanced inner calmness radiates from a peaceful centre. It neither craves others' approval nor rejects others' presence. It neither pulls towards nor pushes away. It has a reverent attitude towards life and all its inhabitants.

Where is the most important of the 5 W Questions. When you are in your "Where" you can fearlessly become "Who" you are to fully live "Why" you are here. Determine your "Where" then your "Who" then your "Why".

Your real personality identity is not an option, it is the foundation for your happiness and health.

The word of lust touches the body, the word of love touches the soul: feed the soul and starve the body.

The only way you're going to reach places you've never gone is if you trust God's direction to do things you've never done.

Imagining a virtual mentor evokes a genuine feeling of being supported and loved.

Sufism expresses what I have found to be Real.

Until we look from the bottom up we have nothing.

Believing or not makes no difference to the Absolute of Things That Be. But it does to you. For you shall live and die accordingly. A wise person, or a fool. Choose.

Our hope is that all is well because of Jesus and that all will be well because of Him.

Your only limitations are those that you impose upon yourself

It's all about the spirit. Every man, woman and child should be seen as a spirit first, before anything else. We are all spirits in the first instance.

Focus! (said a voice within me). We are here to craft emotions. To become a better person. Not to waste our serenity on someone who had a poor upbringing and are not taught manners.

Your drawbacks is not just the evil you did but the good you refuse to do

Worrying and Stressing is useless simply because whatever GOD has for you is for you. Let GOD happen.

When we commit daily to offering our love, living in integrity, truth and values, we are more easily in tune to live our purpose …. We live our ethical life in all aspects; family, friends and business. Our spirit and body are always with us. In IHood, we choose to honor spiritual behavior over that of our body.

We ought to know the Lord and fullness of His great grace.

Never allow your ego to diminish your ability to listen.

We are all meant to be a little broken, it's just about finding someone who will take the time to mend you. Someone who loves you enough to want to find the pieces that may have fallen from you and glue you back together. This is what love is, to restore someone when they have been broken and chipped, and all the while, feeling content whilst mending them...

Devote yourself to prayer.

Any religion that cannot stand up to a modern scientific reasoning, and to rational proof, is asinine

Amazing how things so simple, so often evade us... Remember there's a planet full of people out there, don't mourn over the past. Chin up, rope in those that can pull you up, and cut loose the ones just beneath you, everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't, don't get stuck on one lesson.

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.

At 70 and as a “seasoned citizens” I love to explore and experience “retiring to a forest" the ancient Vedic ashram system. This is a process that begins when a person is ready to hand over responsibilities to the next generation, take an advisory role, and gradually begin to withdraw from the world while enjoying the so called Golden Years and cherishing them as gold, while align our energies with our goal for increasing our spiritual awareness and growth. _nickc