Spiritual Progress Quotes - Page 2

• Mortification of the flesh has been held all the world over as a condition of spiritual progress.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, Progress, World

  Mahatma Gandhi (1973). “Collected Works”

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• By helping yourself, you are helping humankind. By helping humankind, you are helping yourself. That's the law of all spiritual progress.

  Christopher Isherwood

  Spiritual, Law, Progress

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• These Souls with great Material Possessions were allowed this because of Past Good Works in their Previous Life, but now feel there is no need for Spiritual Progress. They are too easily forgetting why they were granted this Material Wealth in the first place. Therefore we must stop them from accumulating more Material Gains to Guide them back to the right path.

  Mary Todd Lincoln

  Spiritual, Past, Soul

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• Spiritual progress is like detoxification. Things have to come up in order to be released. Once we have asked to be healed, then our unhealed places are forced to the surface.

  Marianne Williamson

  Spiritual, Grieving, Order

  Marianne Williamson (1992). “A return to love: reflections on the principles of "A course in miracles"”

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• God is with you, and He'll help you make spiritual progress-strengthening and encouraging you to keep on keeping on during rough times. It's easy to quit, but it takes faith to press on to victory.

  Joyce Meyer

  Motivational, Spiritual, Victory

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• I am one of those who believe that spiritual progress is a rule of human life, but the approach to perfection is slow and painful. If a woman elevates herself in one respect and is retarded in another, it is because the rough trail that leads to the mountain peak is not free of ambushes of thieves and lairs of wolves.

  Khalil Gibran

  Spiritual, Believe, Mountain Peaks

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• It is important that spiritual advancement must keep pace with material advancement. When this comes to be realized man's journey toward higher and more lasting values will show more marked progress while the evil in him recedes into the background. Knowing that material and spiritual progress are essential to man, we must ceaselessly work for the equal attainment of both. Only then shall we be able to acquire that absolute inner calm so necessary to our well-being.

  Haile Selassie

  Spiritual, Journey, Men

  The Voice of Ethiopia, April 5, 1948.

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• I do feel that spiritual progress does demand at some stage that we should cease to kill our fellow creatures for the satisfaction of our bodily wants.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, Philosophical, Animal

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.151, Rajpal & Sons

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• The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Spiritual, Progress, Degrees

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• Complacency is the deadly enemy of spiritual progress. The contented soul is the stagnant soul.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Spiritual, Soul, Enemy

  "The Size of the Soul: Principles of Revival and Spiritual Growth". Book by Aiden Wilson Tozer, 1992.

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• Willpower should be understood to be the strength of the mind, which makes it capable of meeting success or failure with equanimity.  It is not synonymous with certain success.  Why should one's attempts always be attended by success?  Success breeds arrogance and man's spiritual progress is thus arrested.  Failure, on the other hand, is beneficial, inasmuch as it opens his eyes to his limitations and prepares him to surrender himself.  Self surrender is synonymous with eternal happiness.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Spiritual, Eye, Men

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• Therefore a person fully absorbed in the bodily concept of life is surely killing himself by not making spiritual progress. Such a person is called pasu-ghna. Especially excluded from spiritual life are the animal hunters, who are not interested in hearing and chanting the holy name of the Lord. Such hunters are always unhappy, both in this life and in the next. It is therefore said that a hunter should neither die nor live because for such persons both living and dying are troublesome.

  A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

  Spiritual, Animal, Names

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• AA is no success story in the ordinary sense of the word. It is a story of suffering transmuted, under grace, into spiritual progress.

  Bill W.

  Spiritual, Grace, Suffering

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• Pranayam is the right science of breathing where deep, regulated and rhythmic breathing is done along with mental purification. Its practice plays an important role not only in cure of physical ailments, but also for moral and spiritual progress.

  Virchand Gandhi

  Spiritual, Play, Practice

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• Spiritual progress is the changing of the point of view.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Spiritual, Views, Progress

  Hazrat Inayat Khan (1960). “The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan: Sufi Mysticism”, p.125, Library of Alexandria

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• It is the peaceful one who is observant. It is peace that gives him the power to observe keenly. It is the peaceful one, therefore, who can conceive, for peace helps him to conceive. It is the peaceful who can contemplate; one who has no peace cannot contemplate properly. Therefore, all things pertaining to spiritual progress in life depend upon peace.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Spiritual, Giving, Peaceful

  Hazrat Inayat Khan (1973). “The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan: The Way of Illumination”, p.307, Library of Alexandria

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• My identity and my security are not in my spiritual progress. My identity and my security are in God’s acceptance of me given as a gift in Christ.

  J. D. Greear

  Spiritual, Acceptance, Progress

  J.D. Greear (2011). “Gospel: Recovering the Power that Made Christianity Revolutionary”, p.55, B&H Publishing Group

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