Top 200 Spiritual Growth Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.”

— Rumi

52. “Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire.”

— Catherine of Siena

53. “Finding God in All Things.”

— Ignatius of Loyola

54. “Life is available only in the present moment.”

— Nhat Hanh

55. “Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.”

— Rumi

56. “Be less of a judge and you will be surprised that when you become a witness and you don’t judge yourself, you stop judging others too. And that makes you more human, more compassionate, more understanding.”

— Osho

57. “Life is available only in the present moment.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

58. “We are created for community, fashioned for fellowship, and formed for a family, and none of us can fulfill God’s purposes by ourselves.”

— Rick Warren

59. “Your longing for ME is my message to you, All your attempts to reach ME, Are in reality MY attempts to reach you.”

— Rumi

60. “When I have learned to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now.”

— C. S. Lewis

61. “Because I always have a choice, I choose love.”

— Deepak Chopra

62. “We can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.”

— C. S. Lewis

63. “No man is your enemy, no man is your friend, every man is your teacher.”

— Florence Scovel Shinn

64. “Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

65. “Love is the bridge between you and everything.”

— Rumi

66. “What does meditation and spiritual practices do? They bring out the four ’I’s in you: Innovation, Intuition, Inspiration and Intelligence.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

67. “Your life is nothing more than a love story. Between you and God. Nothing more. Every person, every experience, every gift, every loss, every pain is sent to your path for one reason and one reason only: to bring you back to Him.”

— Yasmin Mogahed

68. “Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.”

— Buddha

69. “Even the least work done for others awakens the power within; even thinking the least good of others gradually instills into the heart the strength of a lion.”

— Swami Vivekananda

70. “The more we grow in Love, Virtue and Holiness, the more we see Love, Virtue and Holiness outside.”

— Swami Vivekananda

71. “If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?”

— Rumi

72. “When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That’s the message he is sending.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

73. “Moses spent forty years thinking he was somebody; forty years learning he was nobody; and forty years discovering what God can do with a nobody.”

— D.L. Moody

74. “Be a lamp unto yourselves! Work out your liberation with diligence! Fill your mind with compassion!”

— Buddha

75. “You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible.”

— Deepak Chopra

76. “Man is to become divine by realizing the divine. Idols or temples, or churches or books, are only the supports, the help of his spiritual childhood.”

— Swami Vivekananda

77. “Only the present moment contains life.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

78. “The things of nature are the Lord’s silent ministers, given to us to teach us spiritual truths. They speak to us of the love of God and declare the wisdom of the great Master Artist.”

— Ellen G. White

79. “In the midst of your battles, never forget that God loves you and He has a plan for you.”

— Joyce Meyer

80. “I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.”

— Paul the Apostle

81. “Why are you so enchanted by this world, when a mine of gold lies within you?”

— Rumi

82. “A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise.”

— Buddha

83. “There is a voice that doesn’t use words. Listen.”

— Rumi

84. “Mindfulness is the miracle by which we master and restore ourselves.”

— Nhat Hanh

85. “A man ought to live in this world like a lotus leaf, which grows in water but is never moistened by water; so a man ought to live in the world – his heart to God and his hands to work.”

— Swami Vivekananda

86. “You can’t live at all unless you can live fully now.”

— Alan Watts

87. “By the practice of meditation, you will find that you are carrying within your heart a portable paradise.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

88. “The truth is: you don’t have a life, you are life.”

— Eckhart Tolle

89. “I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being.”

— Hafez

90. “Since you alone are responsible for your thoughts, only you can change them.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

91. “Whether you love God or you love a human being, if you love enough you will come into the presence of Love itself.”

— Rumi

92. “Prayer is you speaking to God. Meditation is allowing the spirit to speak to you.”

— Deepak Chopra

93. “Only one life, ’twill soon be past, Only what’s done for Christ will last.”

— Charles Studd

94. “God is God. Because he is God, He is worthy of my trust and obedience. I will find rest nowhere but in His holy will that is unspeakably beyond my largest notions of what he is up to.”

— Elisabeth Elliot

95. “You are an infinite spiritual being having a temporary human experience.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

96. “As You Think, So Shall You Be.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

97. “Fear only exists when you do not understand that you have the power to project thought and that the Universe will respond.”

— Esther Hicks

98. “You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and to embrace them with courage, faith and hope.”

— Thomas Merton

99. “Become an alchemist. Transmute base metal into gold, suffering into consciousness, disaster into enlightenment.”

— Eckhart Tolle

100. “Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth.”

— Marianne Williamson