Charles Spurgeon Quotes

Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher's help.

In the life of the spirit there is no ending that is not a beginning.

Our own self-realization is the greatest service we can render the world.

Physically, I've seen a change in my life. No, I haven't had a face lift or anything like that. I've grown. That's God's countenance.

We will not find the inner strength to evolve to a higher level if we do not inwardly develop this profound feeling that there is something higher than ourselves.

Trying harder doesn’t work for me. Slowly I’ve learned to pray for God’s help and He has become my greatest love and desire.

Every positive change - every jump to a higher level of energy and awareness - involves a rite of passage. Each time to ascend to a higher rung on the ladder of personal evolution, we must go through a period of discomfort, of initiation. I have never found an exception.

Any desire to grow is following the flow of love

If you could envision the type of person God intended you to be, you would rise up and never be the same again.

How good it is for us when the Lord unsettles our lukewarm and superficial lives.

I can’t make the Bible come alive for anyone. The Bible is already alive. It makes me come alive.

The only thing one can usually change in one's situation is oneself. And yet one can't change that either-only ask Our Lord to do so.

Everyone has a spirit that can be refined, a body that can be trained in some manner, a suitable path to follow. You are here to realize your inner divinity and manifest your innate enlightenment.

God wants to free us from ourselves, and there's nothing like suffering to show us that we need something bigger than our abilities and our strength and our explanations.

Lent is a time to renew wherever we are in that process that I call the divine therapy. It's a time to look what our instinctual needs are, look at what the dynamics of our unconscious are.

The process of my transformation came to a head with my discovery of St. Francis of Assisi during a pilgrimage I went on with a scout troop from my school.

I just refer to myself as being Spirit, Mind and Body like everybody else and working toward the mastery of my natural divinity and the healing of my emotional mind.

There is no teacher, living or past, who can give us the actual understanding of Truth. A teacher can only put our feet upon the path and point the way. That is all. It is wholly dependent on the individual to make his way to Truth.

The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.

We must alter our lives in order to alter our hearts, for it is impossible to live one way and pray another.

Your soul's desires compel you to grow, evolve and move closer to your highest potential.

By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.

That's the whole spiritual life. It's learning how to die. And as you learn how to die, you start losing all your illusions, and you start being capable now of true intimacy and love.

The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.

Yet higher religion, which is only a search for a larger life, is essentially experience and recognized the necessity of experience as its foundation long before science learnt to do so.