Peace Pilgrim Quotes

The purpose of problems is to push you toward obedience to God's laws, which are exact and cannot be changed. We have the free will to obey them or disobey them. Obedience will bring harmony, disobedience will bring you more problems.

As your life continually poses new questions, it also poses new answers - which cause expansion. As your life presents new problems, it also presents new solutions - which cause expansion - and All-That-Is benefits from your willingness to live and consider and explore ... and expand.

Without difficulties, life would be like a stream without rocks and curves – about as interesting as concrete. Without problems, there can be no personal growth, no group achievement, no progress of humanity. But what mattes about problems is what one does with them.

Physical growth is a function of time. No two-year-old child has ever been six feet tall. Intellectual growth is a function of learning. Spiritual growth is neither a function of time or learning, but it is a function of obedience.

A life without problems would be a barren existence, without the opportunity for spiritual growth.

Sometimes, God uses difficult people, like sandpaper, to rub the rough edges off us.

Grow within the flow.

Too many people go through life complaining about their problems. I've always believed that if you took one tenth the enrgy you put into complaining and applied it to solving the problem, you'd be surprised by how well things can work out.

God will never reveal more truth about himself until you have obeyed what you know already

A talent can be cultivated in tranquility; a character only in the rushing stream of life.

Cultivate peace first in the garden of your heart by removing the weeds of lust, hatred, greed, selfishness, and jealousy. Then only you can manifest it externally. Then only, those who come in contact with you, will be benefited by your vibrations of peace and harmony.

Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead. The Art of Peace is a celebration of the bonding of heaven, earth, and humankind. It is all that is true, good, and beautiful.

When we avoid the legitimate suffering that results from dealing with problems, we also avoid the growth that problems demand from us.

The dark moments of our life will last only so long as is necessary for God to accomplish His purpose in us.

Life is a series of problem-solving opportunities. The problems you face will either defeat you or develop you depending on how you respond to them.

When things hurt us, we're merely on our way to another spiritual environment.

The troubles of this world pass, and what we have left is what we have made of our souls.

The main message of it is to not get stagnant and that God wants us to continue to grow and become a better person.

In the spiritual life only one thing produces genuine joy and that is obedience.

I will work on myself, since the work on myself is going to be the highest thing I can do for it all, since I understand that as man up-levels his own consciousness, he sees more creative solutions to the problems that he's confronting.

Becoming like Christ is a long, slow process of growth.

Spiritual growth thrives in the midst of our problems, not in their absence. Spiritual growth occurs in the trenches of life, not in the classroom.

Challenges arise to make us aware of our inner purpose.