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Quotes About Development

If we want spiritual development, the practice of patience is essential.
~ Dalai Lama
It is in the ordinary duties and labors of life that the Christian can and should develop his spiritual union with God.
~ Thomas Merton
Learn your lessons quickly and move on.
~ Eileen Caddy
Only after several years of training did I come to realize that the deepest purpose of the martial arts is to serve as a vehicle for personal spiritual development.
~ Joe Hyams
The spiritual process has always been referred to as a journey - constant change.
~ Jaggi Vasudev
When we avoid the legitimate suffering that results from dealing with problems, we also avoid the growth that problems demand from us.
~ M. Scott Peck
Let's not grow with our roots in the ground.
~ Criss Jami, Venus in Arms
It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.
~ Warren G. Bennis
Conversion is in its essence a normal adolescent phenomenon, incidental to the passage from the child's small universe to the wider intellectual and spiritual life of maturity.
~ William James
Prosperity is often the enemy of spiritual development.
~ Max Anders
It will be a great thing for the human soul when it finally stops worshipping backwards.
~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman
It is easier to build a boy than to mend a man.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
A genuine transformation that results from sustained concerted effort is long lasting because it has a firm foundation.
~ Dalai Lama
Every form of life is sacred. It is not possible to have an activity that is not sacred...Coming to see everything as sacred and honouring everything is spiritual development.
~ Gary Zukav
The old must pass away. It has served its purpose in the cycles of evolution and must now make way for a new, more expanded and more fruitful manifestation.
~ David Spangler
Growth is ugly, it's hideous, it's all the things we don't like but my god, once you walk through the fire of confusion you will feel burning passion within your flame.
~ Nikki Rowe
The strength people need to proceed along the path of human development can come only from the spiritual worlds.
~ Rudolf Steiner
Puberty corrupts - that's a fact, and it corrupts without consent – that's the concern.
~ Mohit Parikh, Manan
The moment you, as a spiritual person, stop growing, you simply die. Your ministry will grow as a consequence of your dedication, faithfulness and persistent desire to move on
~ Sunday Adelaja
After coming to God and being revived spiritually, every person should grow spiritually
~ Sunday Adelaja
The greatest gift you can give yourself is to develop your full potential.
~ Carolyn E. Cobelo
Most of us plateau when we lose the tension between where we are and where we ought to be.
~ John Gardiner
Spiritual principles do not change, but we do.
~ Marianne Williamson
A coach is someone who tells you what you don't want to hear, who has you see what you don't want to see, so you can be who you have always known you could be
~ Tom Landry