Top 200 Spiritual Growth Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “Whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, it’s because that desire originated in the soul of the universe. It’s your mission on earth.”

— Paulo Coelho

152. “My actions are my only true belongings. I cannot escape the consequences of my actions. My actions are the ground on which I stand.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

153. “Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to “die before you die” – and find that there is no death.”

— Eckhart Tolle

154. “You are here to enable the divine purpose of the Universe to unfold. That is how important you are!”

— Eckhart Tolle

155. “Yoga is not just doing some exercise, it is much more. It is to expand your awareness, sharpen your intellect and enhance your intuitive ability.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

156. “You weren’t an accident. You weren’t mass produced. You aren’t an assembly-line product. You were deliberately planned, specifically gifted, and lovingly positioned on the earth by the Master Craftsman.”

— Max Lucado

157. “When you see your happiness in the happiness of others, that’s when you will be truly happy.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

158. “If you let go a little you will have a little happiness. If you let go a lot you will have a lot of happiness. If you let go completely you will be free.”

— Ajahn Chah

159. “The present moment holds the key to liberation. But you cannot find the present moment as long as you are your mind.”

— Eckhart Tolle

160. “The root of suffering is attachment.”

— Buddha

161. “The desire to know your own soul will end all other desires.”

— Rumi

162. “The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, ‘O God, forgive me,’ or ‘Help me.’”

— Billy Graham

163. “If you don’t go within, you go without.”

— Neale Donald Walsch

164. “Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves – slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

165. “When you feel a peaceful joy, that’s when you are near truth.”

— Rumi

166. “I have been a seeker and I still am, but I stopped asking the books and the stars. I started listening to the teaching of my Soul.”

— Rumi

167. “Become conscious of being conscious.”

— Eckhart Tolle

168. “Discipleship is the process of becoming who Jesus would be if he were you.”

— Dallas Willard

169. “Don’t turn away. Keep your gaze on the bandaged place. That’s where the light enters you.”

— Rumi

170. “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.”

— Nhat Hanh

171. “A truly compassionate attitude toward others does not change even if they behave negatively or hurt you.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

172. “Only love can bring us peace. And the experience of love is a choice we make, a mental decision to see love as the only real purpose and value in any situation.”

— Marianne Williamson

173. “Nearness to God brings likeness to God. The more you see God the more of God will be seen in you.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

174. “I once had a thousand desires. But in my one desire to know you, all else melted away.”

— Rumi

175. “Most people spend their entire life imprisoned within the confines of their own thoughts. They never go beyond a narrow, mind-made, personalized sense of self that is conditioned by the past.”

— Eckhart Tolle

176. “I am a glorious child of God. I am joyful, serene, positive, and loving.”

— Marianne Williamson

177. “Once your mind becomes absolutely still, your intelligence transcends human limitations.”

— Jaggi Vasudev

178. “If you want to talk to God, pray. If you want him to talk to you, read your scriptures.”

— Richard G. Scott

179. “Thoughts come and go. Feelings come and go. Find out what it is that remains.”

— Ramana Maharshi

180. “Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.”

— Corrie ten Boom

181. “Life with Christ is a wonderful adventure.”

— Pope John Paul II

182. “Meditation takes us from survival to creation; from separation to connection; from imbalance to balance; from emergency mode to growth-and-repair mode; and from the limiting emotions of fear, anger, and sadness to the expansive emotions of joy, freedom, and love.”

— Joe Dispenza

183. “Christianity is not a religion or a philosophy, but a relationship and a lifestyle. The core of that lifestyle is thinking of others, as Jesus did, instead of ourselves.”

— Rick Warren

184. “Anything that makes you weak – physically, intellectually, and spiritually, reject it as poison.”

— Swami Vivekananda

185. “Look for the answer inside your question.”

— Rumi

186. “Change yourself and you have done your part in changing the world.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

187. “Truth is not something outside to be discovered, it is something inside to be realized.”

— Osho

188. “The will of God will not take us where the grace of God cannot sustain us.”

— Billy Graham

189. “All that I seek is already within me.”

— Louise Hay

190. “Bless people when they revile you. Think how much good they are doing by helping to stamp out the false ego.”

— Swami Vivekananda

191. “If you can cultivate the right attitude, your enemies are your best spiritual teachers because their presence provides you with the opportunity to enhance and develop tolerance, patience and understanding.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

192. “The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.”

— C. S. Lewis

193. “Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. To these I commit my day.”

— Max Lucado

194. “Don’t be sad! Because God sends hope in the most desperate moments. Don’t forget, the heaviest rain comes out of the darkest clouds.”

— Rumi

195. “All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.”

— Eckhart Tolle

196. “Life with God is not immunity from difficulties, but peace in difficulties.”

— C. S. Lewis

197. “Nam-myoho-renge-kyo is the greatest joy for all humankind.”

— Nichiren

198. “The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.”

— Frederick Buechner

199. “We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”

— Anaïs Nin

200. “Suffering only shows where you are attached. That is why, to those on the path, suffering is grace.”

— Ram Dass