Growth is not truly indicated by mere products but rather by progress. [1] The progression of eternity does not consist solely in spiritual development. Intellectual acquisition is also a part of universal education. [2]
The finite of time contains within itself the seeds of eternity; when the fullness of evolution witnesses the exhaustion of the capacity for cosmic growth, the total finite will embark upon the absonite phases of the eternal career in quest of the Father as Ultimate. [3]
The present growth which characterizes creature existence in the present universe age is a function of the Supreme. This kind of growth is peculiar to the age of the growth of the Supreme, and it will terminate with the completion of the growth of the Supreme. [4]
Man cannot cause growth, but he can supply favorable conditions. Growth is always unconscious, be it physical, intellectual, or spiritual. [5]
To mortal man, existence is equivalent to growth. And so indeed it would seem to be, even in the larger universe sense, for spirit-led existence does seem to result in experiential growth—augmentation of status. [6] Confusion goes before growth as well as before destruction. [7] Decisions open up new capacity for growth. [8] Evolution is a cosmic technique of growth. [9] Spiritual growth is greatest where all external pressures are at a minimum. [10]
Far from harassing the creature, the infinity of God should be the supreme assurance that throughout all endless futurity an ascending personality will have before him the possibilities of personality development and Deity association which even eternity will neither exhaust nor terminate. [11] Man cannot cause growth, only supply favorable conditions. [12] Stagnation is certain death, but that overrapid growth is equally suicidal. [13] Prejudice and ignorance are chief inhibitors of growth. [14] The great problem of religious living consists in the task of unifying the soul powers of the personality by the dominance of love. [15]
Creative growth is unending but ever satisfying, endless in extent but always punctuated by those personality-satisfying moments of transient goal attainment which serve so effectively as the mobilization preludes to new adventures in cosmic growth, universe exploration, and Deity attainment. [16] Some persons are too busy to grow and are therefore in grave danger of spiritual fixation. Provision must be made for growth. [17]
The Supreme is God-in-time; his is the secret of creature growth in time; his also is the conquest of the incomplete present and the consummation of the perfecting future. [18]
There are present in all normal mortals certain innate drives toward growth and self-realization which function if they are not specifically inhibited. [19]
The interassociation of the Original, the Actual, and the Potential yields the tensions within infinity which result in the possibility for all universe growth; and growth is the nature of the Sevenfold, the Supreme, and the Ultimate. [20] Experiential growth implies creature-Creator partnership—God and man in association. [21]
With the appearance of relative and qualified reality there comes into being a new cycle of reality—the growth cycle—a majestic downsweep from the heights of infinity to the domain of the finite, forever swinging inward to Paradise and Deity, always seeking those high destinies commensurate with an infinity source. [22]
The interassociation of the Original, the Actual, and the Potential yields the tensions within infinity which result in the possibility for all universe growth; and growth is the nature of the Sevenfold, the Supreme, and the Ultimate. [23]
In attaining capacity for experience, the finite God also becomes subject to the necessity therefor; in achieving liberation from eternity, the Almighty encounters the barriers of time; and the Supreme could only know growth and development as a consequence of partiality of existence and incompleteness of nature, nonabsoluteness of being. [24] This superuniverse time lag, this obstacle to perfection attainment, provides for creature participation in evolutionary growth. [25]
The ideal human estate is that in which philosophy, religion, and science are welded into a meaningful unity by the conjoined action of wisdom, faith, and experience. [26] The unification of mathematic logic, mind-reason, and spirit-faith in personality is what provides a reality to man’s experience. [27]