Lee Strobel Quotes

The challenges we face in life are always lessons that serve our soul's growth.

The more fear we feel about a specific enterprise, the more certain we can be that that enterprise is important to us and to the growth of our soul.

The purpose of life on earth is that the soul should grow - So Growl By doing what is right.

You have to go through those mountains and valleys - because that's what life is: soul growth.

The growth of the soul may be compared to the growth of a plant. In both cases, no new properties are imparted by the operation of external causes, but only the inward tendencies are called into action and clothed with strength.

My national service is part of my training for freeing my soul from the bondage of the flesh.

The spiritual life of individuals has to be extended both vertically to God and horizontally to other souls; and the more it grows in both directions, the less merely individual and therefore more truly personal it will become.

Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow.

Continued work and application form my soul's nourishment. So soon as I commenced to rest and relax I should cease to live.

An easy life is rarely meaningful and a meaningful life rarely easy.

Everything that happens in life is there to aid our spiritual growth.

The universe always gives you what you need to grow into the person you are destined to become.

It takes suffering to widen the soul.

To me life means the growing of a soul. I do not know why this duty is imposed upon us. I merely know that it is, and I feel that we are given much latitude of free will.

The idea of suicide, understandable as it is, does not seem commendable to me. We live in order to gain the greatest possible amount of spiritual development and self-awareness. As long as life is possible, even if only in a minimal degree, you should hang onto it, in order to scoop it up for the purpose of conscious development. To interrupt life before its time is to bring to a standstill an experiment which we have not set up. We have found ourselves in the midst of it and must carry it through to the end.

The circumstances of your life are neither good nor bad. They are appropriate to the needs of your soul. They may or may not be what your personality desires.

A life with difficult relationships, filled with obstacles and losses, presents the most opportunity for the soul's growth.

I've come to trust not that events will always unfold exactly as I want, but that I will be fine either way. The challenges we face in life are always lessons that serve our soul's growth.

As I look back at the entire tapestry of my life, I can see from the perspective of the present moment that every aspect of my life was necessary and perfect. Each step eventually led to a higher place, even though these steps often felt like obstacles or painful experiences.

They say, Find a purpose in your life and live it. But, sometimes, it is only after you have lived that you recognize your life had a purpose, and likely one you never had in mind.

That wonderful and terribly frightening journey of self-discovery. That process of growth, of being an independent person, of learning who you are and what you want from life, is the real secret of life, happiness and beauty.

God does not discipline us to subdue us, but to condition us for a life of usefulness and blessedness.

The principal thing in this world is to keep one's soul aloft.

Only love makes fruitful the soul.

And yet not a dream, but a mighty reality- a glimpse of the higher life, the broader possibilities of humanity, which is granted to the man who, amid the rush and roar of living, pauses four short years to learn what living means