Anthony de Mello Quotes

Sin happens whenever we refuse to keep growing.

We have measured ourselves by ourselves until the incentive to seek higher plateaus in the things of the Spirit is all but gone.

A person who refuses to risk change fails to grow.

I think all any artist or person wants to do is grow spiritually, emotionally, professionally and mentally.

As I get older, I feel better about myself because I've done a lot of spiritual work on myself and balanced myself out, and so I feel more confident about myself as a person and as a woman.

Why do I want to be challenged or have challenges? That's why I don't go climb mountains.

The key to success is to keep growing in all areas of life - mental, emotional, spiritual, as well as physical.

Everybody wants to get enlightened but nobody wants to change.

The older I get, the more I meet people, the more convinced I am that we must only work on ourselves, to grow in grace. The only thing we can do about people is to love them.

Every failure, every adversity, every heartache may be a blessing in disguise providing it softens the animal portion of our nature.

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

The goal of climbing big, dangerous mountains should be to attain some sort of spiritual and personal growth, but this won't happen if you compromise away the entire process.

If a musician wants to become a finer artist, he must first become a finer person.

See that your chief study be about heart, that there God's image may be planted, and his interest advanced, and the interest of the world and flesh subdued, and the love of every sin cast out, and the love of holiness succeed; and that you content not yourselves with seeming to do good in outward acts, when you are bad yourselves, and strangers to the great internal duties. The first and great work of a Christian is about his heart.

When a Christian stops growing, help is needed. If you are the same Christian you were a few months ago, be careful.

Criticism is easier to take when you realize that the only people who aren’t criticized are those who don’t take risks.

You cannot grow and expand your capabilities without running the risk of failure.

Joy is the evidence of inner growth.

So your first job is to work on yourself. The greatest thing you can do for another human being is to get your own house in order and find your true spiritual heart.

Lord, bless our week. Help us to take all the necessary risks to become the person we always wanted to be.

Sometimes we think we're a little too gifted to show up, yo uknow. But none of us truly is...By avoiding risk we really risk what's most important in life---reaching toward growth, our potential, and a true contribution to a common good.

The purpose of romantic relationships is to encourage you to grow spiritually.

What is most contrary to salvation is not sin but habit.

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.

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