Quotes from Marianne Williamson

You are a child of God.

To look to God is to look to the realm of consciousness that can deliver us from the pain of living.

God cannot do for us what he cannot do through us.

God is the water, and you are the faucet.

God is a peaceful ground of being. He is the energy of nonviolence. To ask Him to help is to ask Him to turn us into profoundly peaceful people.

Instead of praying: 'Dear God, bring me someone fabulous,' try: 'Dear God, make me into someone fabulous.'

Every ending is a new beginning. Through the grace of God, we can always start again. (Page 120.)

Angels are thoughts of God--to pray to an angel is to look to a level of pure thinking, divine thinking, and to ask that it replace our thoughts of fear. (Page 27.)

I believe there is an evolutionary impulse toward good that is etched on every human heart. It is placed there by the hand of God.

If you allow yourself to deepen with midlife, your experience of everything deepens, including your experience of God.

The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.

Hopefully, I will emerge more shining. If I have that good fortune, if I am blessed in that way - and I do feel I am in the middle of the blessing - then I have faith my service will be greater.

Often faith isn't hoping that good times are coming; it's trying to see that the good times are here.

America is a great country, and we've done a lot of good in the world. But we are a collection of people, not saints. We have our own sins to atone for.

If we had the government we deserved we would have the most righteous government, because we deserve the best - everybody does.

The word "politics" comes from the Greek politeia which had to do with the citizenry, not the government.

I have lived enough to know great things will unfold for me externally only if I allow them to unfold for me internally.

Like a great athlete, we must have a very clear vision of what we want to accomplish before we make a move. Vision, in preparation for an action, is as important as the action itself.

Great people are not people who have never fallen down. Greatness has to do with how you get back up.

Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could Go Wrong.

The universe is already programmed to give each of us a year of happiness. Our challenge lies in programming ourselves to receive it.

The universe is conspiring at this moment to bring you happiness and peace.

The key to happiness is the decision to be happy

God heard us. He sent help. He sent you.