Quotes from Emmet Fox

Life is a state of consciousness.

Welcome any change that comes into any phase in your life; insist that it is going to turn out for the better - and it will. See the Angel of God in it, and the Angel of God will make all things new.

You must not under any pretense allow your mind to dwell on any thought that is not positive, constructive, optimistic, kind.

Recognize success with thanksgiving and build more success on that.

If you have no time for prayer and meditation, you will have lots of time for sickness and trouble.

The great difference between the two feelings is that love is always creative, and fear is always destructive.

There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer.

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

You must not under any pretense allow your mind to dwell on any thought that is not positive, constructive, optimistic, kind.

As thy days, so shall thy strength be which, in modern language, may be translated as thy thoughts so shall thy life be.

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

It is the food which you furnish to your mind that determines the whole character of your life.

Life is consciousness.

Stop thinking about your difficulties, whatever they are, and start thinking about God instead.

Some day (when we have enough spiritual growth) we will come to see that the seemingly disjointed happenings, the apparent accidents, are really part of an orderly pattern.

You cannot expect to reach port if you are faithful in your prayers and meditations for a time, and then for a time you forget God.

The universe is run exactly on the lines of a cafeteria. Unless you claim—mentally—what you want, you may sit and wait forever.

chosen to hold; and therefore they are of our own ordering; and therefore there is perfect justice in the universe. No suffering for another man's original sin, but the reaping of a harvest that we ourselves have sown. We have free will, but our free will lies in our choice of thought.

You are always in your right place at the moment. If you don't like it, change it scientifically by rising in consciousness. This will be permanent.

You must get rid of all sense of resentment and hostility. You must change your own state of mind until you are conscious only of harmony and peace within yourself, and have a sense of positive goodwill towards all.   This

An early New Thought writer said: "Knead love into the bread you bake; wrap strength and courage in the parcel you tie for the woman with the weary face; hand trust and candor with the coin you pay to the man with the suspicious eyes." This is beautifully said, and it sums up the Practice of the Presence of God.

that a double-minded man is unstable in all his ways, and that such a person need expect nothing from the Great Law. If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally

Of what does the consecrated life consist? Your life is a consecrated one when you are ready at all times to do the will of God—when you are willing and anxious that God may be fully expressed through you, through your thoughts, words, and deeds, during every hour of the day. You are not concerned with the question of results. Results belong to God. Here am I; send me (Isaiah 6:8).