Development Quote by Rudolf Steiner

In the Buddha's life story we see the three stages of practice: Morality comes first, then concentrated meditation, and then wisdom. And we see…

— Dalai Lama

“He first advocates practicing moral conduct as a foundation for spiritual development.”

— Ayya Khema

The main experiential determinants of moral development seem to be amount and variety of social experience, the opportunity to take a number of roles…

— Lawrence Kohlberg

It is always so much easier to be moral than it is to be spiritual.

— Mary Hunter Austin

The first step to improvement, whether mental, moral, or religious, is to know ourselves - our weakness, errors, deficiencies, and sins, that, by divine…

— Tryon Edwards

It's through the small things that we develop our moral imagination, so that we can understand the sufferings of others.

— Alexander McCall Smith

To be moral is to discover fundamentally ones own being.

— Simone de Beauvoir

Every problem is a character-building opportunity, and the more difficult it is, the greater the potential for building spiritual muscle and moral fiber.

— Rick Warren

If we look at our attitudes consistently and work out the logical implications we're on the road to moral progress, moral understanding.

— Rebecca Goldstein

We get our moral bearings by looking at God. We must begin with God. We are right when, and only when, we stand in…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

“Our moral decisions about ourselves can be spiritual. Our moral decisions about other people can only be practical.”

— Andrew Klavan

-The highest stage in moral ure at which we can arrive is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.

— Charles Darwin