Top 200 Spiritual Growth Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Be here now.”

— Ram Dass

Also featured in: Focus Quotes, Time Quotes, Meaningful Quotes, Enlightenment Quotes

2. “Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”

— C.G. Jung

Also featured in: Psychology Quotes, Self-Realization Quotes, Deep Quotes About Life

3. “A little faith will bring your soul to heaven; a great faith will bring heaven to your soul.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

Also featured in: Christian Quotes, Meaningful Quotes, Faith Quotes

4. “I don’t mind what happens. That is the essence of inner freedom. It is a timeless spiritual truth: release attachment to outcomes, deep inside yourself, you’ll feel good no matter what.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Also featured in: Life Quotes, Happiness Quotes, Mindset Quotes, Mind Quotes

5. “All is well. Everything is working out for my highest good. Out of this situation only good will come. I am safe!”

— Louise Hay

Also featured in: Self-Esteem Quotes, Positive Inspirational Quotes, Feel Good Quotes, Positivity Quotes, Positive Motivational Quotes

6. “I am not my thoughts, emotions, sense perceptions, and experiences. I am not the content of my life. I am Life. I am the space in which all things happen. I am consciousness. I am the Now. I Am.”

— Eckhart Tolle

Also featured in: Enlightenment Quotes, Awakening Quotes, Deep Quotes About Life

7. “Wisdom comes with the ability to be still. Just look and just listen. No more is needed. Being still, looking, and listening activates the non-conceptual intelligence within you. Let stillness direct your words and actions.”

— Eckhart Tolle

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8. “Breathing in, I calm body and mind. Breathing out, I smile. Dwelling in the present moment I know this is the only moment.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

Also featured in: Reflection Quotes, Mindfulness Quotes, Quality Quotes, Spirituality Quotes

9. “Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God’s kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.”

— Mother Teresa

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10. “Your own Self-Realization is the greatest service you can render the world.”

— Ramana Maharshi

Also featured in: Enlightenment Quotes, Self-Realization Quotes, Spirituality Quotes, Being Yourself Quotes

11. “Give up all desire for enjoyment in earth or heaven. Control the organs of the senses and control the mind. Bear every misery without even knowing that you are miserable. Think of nothing but spiritual freedom.”

— Swami Vivekananda

Also featured in: Enlightenment Quotes, Giving Up Quotes, Spirituality Quotes

12. “Silence is truth. Silence is bliss. Silence is peace. And hence Silence is the Self.”

— Ramana Maharshi

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13. “Be patient with yourself. Perfection comes not in this life, but in the next life. Don’t demand things that are unreasonable, but demand of yourself improvement. As you let the Lord help you through that, He will make the difference.”

— Russell M. Nelson

Also featured in: Patience Quotes, Christian Quotes, Sunday Quotes, Discipleship Quotes

14. “Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.”

— Francis of Assisi

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes, Christian Quotes, Blessed Quotes, Positive Inspirational Quotes

15. “Don’t you quit. You keep walking, you keep trying, there is help and happiness ahead. Some blessings come soon. Some come late. Some don’t come until heaven. But for those who embrace the gospel of Jesus Christ, they come. It will be alright in the end. Trust God and believe in Good Things to Come.”

— Jeffrey R. Holland

Also featured in: Quotes About Strength, Patience Quotes, Christian Quotes, Blessing Quotes, Blessed Quotes

16. “The more you trust Jesus and keep your eyes focused on Him, the more life you’ll have. Trusting God brings life. Believing brings rest. So stop trying to figure everything out, and let God be God in your life.”

— Joyce Meyer

Also featured in: Christian Quotes, Blessing Quotes, Sunday Quotes

17. “The ultimate purpose of life is to show that Jesus is more precious than life.”

— John Piper

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18. “So love is the recognition of oneness in a world of duality. This is the birth of God into the world of form. Love makes the world less worldly, less dense, more transparent to the divine dimension, the light of consciousness itself.”

— Eckhart Tolle

Also featured in: Enlightenment Quotes, Awakening Quotes, Love You Quotes

19. “We are not the sum of our weaknesses and failures, we are the sum of the Father’s love for us and our real capacity to become the image of His Son Jesus.”

— Pope John Paul II

Also featured in: Christian Quotes, Morality Quotes, Identity Quotes, Quotes About Hope

20. “We are not human beings in search of a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings immersed in a human experience.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

Also featured in: Meaning Quotes, Awakening Quotes, Soul Quotes

21. “Peace is present right here and now, in ourselves and in everything we do and see. Every breath we take, every step we take, can be filled with peace, joy, and serenity. The question is whether or not we are in touch with it. We need only to be awake, alive in the present moment.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

Also featured in: Wellness Quotes, Serenity Quotes, Mindfulness Quotes, Practice Quotes

22. “Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it, and live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success, that is how great spiritual giants are produced.”

— Swami Vivekananda

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes, Focus Quotes, Goal Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Success

23. “Be – don’t try to become.”

— Osho

Also featured in: Self-Realization Quotes, Life Philosophy Quotes, Philosophical Quotes

24. “Awareness is the greatest agent for change.”

— Eckhart Tolle

Also featured in: Life Quotes, Change Quotes, Interesting Quotes, Short Positive Quotes

25. “Heaven on Earth is a choice you must make, not a place you must find.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

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26. “All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.”

— Swami Vivekananda

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27. “You are what you believe yourself to be.”

— Paulo Coelho

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28. “You are not your mind.”

— Eckhart Tolle

Also featured in: Enlightenment Quotes, Self-Realization Quotes, Awakening Quotes, Deep Quotes About Life

29. “Nothing can harm you as much as your own thoughts unguarded.”

— Buddha

Also featured in: Emotional Quotes, Self-Realization Quotes, Mental Health Quotes

30. “No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.”

— Buddha

Also featured in: Life Quotes, Goal Quotes, Empowering Quotes

31. “You are the universe experiencing itself.”

— Alan Watts

Also featured in: Philosophical Quotes, Universe Quotes, Beautiful Quotes

32. “The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of the state of your mind.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

Also featured in: Happiness Quotes, Psychology Quotes, Positivity Quotes

33. “Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.”

— Eckhart Tolle

Also featured in: Enlightenment Quotes, Self-Realization Quotes, Deep Quotes About Life, Short Quotes About Life

34. “The true hero is one who conquers his own anger and hatred.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

Also featured in: Buddhist Quotes, Peace Quotes, Encouraging Quotes

35. “Don’t hurry anything. Don’t worry about the future. Don’t worry about what progress you’re making. Just be entirely content to be aware of what is.”

— Alan Watts

Also featured in: Interesting Quotes, Wisdom Quotes, Mindfulness Quotes

36. “Those who flow as life flows know they need no other force.”

— Lao Tzu

Also featured in: Change Quotes, Enlightenment Quotes, Life Philosophy Quotes

37. “God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him.”

— John Piper

Also featured in: Christian Quotes, Sunday Quotes, Faith Quotes, Quotes About Believing

38. “Accomplish but do not boast, accomplish without show, accomplish without arrogance, accomplish without grabbing, accomplish without forcing.”

— Lao Tzu

Also featured in: Goal Quotes, Meaning Quotes, Mind Quotes

39. “Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being.”

— Swami Vivekananda

Also featured in: Scripture Quotes, Self-Realization Quotes, Quotes About Humanity

40. “Trust the past to the mercy of God, the present to His love, and the future to His providence.”

— Saint Augustine

Also featured in: Christian Quotes, Blessed Quotes, Faith Quotes, Quotes About Hope

41. “Open your Eyes, for this World is only a Dream.”

— Rumi

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42. “I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Service Quotes, Live Life Quotes, Inspirational Life Quotes

43. “Make of yourself a light.”

— Buddha

Also featured in: Life Quotes, Enlightenment Quotes, Self-Realization Quotes, Positive Life Quotes

44. “We know only too well that what we are doing is nothing more than a drop in the ocean. But if the drop were not there, the ocean would be missing something.”

— Mother Teresa

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45. “We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.”

— Swami Vivekananda

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes, Meaningful Quotes, Wisdom Quotes

46. “As you ask and feel and believe, you will receive.”

— Rhonda Byrne

Also featured in: Positive Motivational Quotes, Law Of Attraction Quotes, Positive Thinking Quotes, Self-Empowerment Quotes

47. “If you look at the world, you’ll be distressed. If you look within, you’ll be depressed. If you look at God you’ll be at rest.”

— Corrie ten Boom

Also featured in: Sunday Quotes, Feel Better Quotes, Quotes About Believing, Peace Quotes

48. “When you keep God in first place, He will take you to places you’ve never dreamed of.”

— Joel Osteen

Also featured in: Blessing Quotes, Blessed Quotes, Prosperity Quotes, Short Inspirational Quotes, Positive Inspirational Quotes

49. “I pray because I can’t help myself. I pray because I’m helpless. It doesn’t change God – it changes me.”

— C. S. Lewis

Also featured in: Blessed Quotes, Helping Quotes

50. “You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather.”

— Pema Chödrön

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