Quotes from Joel S. Goldsmith

You govern your surroundings by the nature of what is taking place in your consciousness.

God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Prayer is the Word of God which comes to you when you are silent enough, still enough, expectant enough to receive it.

God is life; and in that life which is God there are no years. ... The human sense of life is not your real life.

Life is not at the mercy of matter.

God must become an activity in our consciousness.

gift all needs are met.

Violating these laws does not bring the wrath of God upon you, it brings the wrath of your sin upon you. You are never punished for your sins, never. And you never will be. You are punished by your sins, and you can't avoid it.

God is not meant to glorify man: Man is meant to glorify God.

Ponder frequently

So I do know this: Whatever you release, you are released from. What you cling to is that which binds you. You are your own liberator.

God's grace is our sufficiency in all things—today, tomorrow, and a thousand years from now.

There is such a complete sense of separation between God and the man of earth that the two never come together. That is why, in order to live under God's grace, what Paul said must necessarily follow: "The spirit of God must dwell in you, otherwise you are not under the law of God, neither indeed can be.

as scripture says, "God is too pure to behold iniquity." Certainly God wouldn't tolerate it today and then heal you of it tomorrow. That would make of God a human being, and not even a very nice one.

What happens then? The hypnotism is dissipated and you are living a spiritual life, a God life. God was doing its job all the time. God was always manifesting its spiritual perfection as you, but only by seeing through a glass darkly did you see yourself in sin, disease, death, lack, and limitation.

There is a God maintaining and sustaining the integrity of this universe, and it is perfect except when you see it through a glass darkly, or when you see it through a sense that has been to some extent mesmerized by the belief in good and evil.

If you don't accept it as reality, it cannot function against you. That's the secret. "As ye sow, so shall ye reap." If you believe there is a sinful person, then sin can be committed against you. If you believe there is a poverty-stricken person, poverty can knock at your door. If you believe there is disease and death, you can experience it.

You are no more outside of God's government than the stars, the sun, the moon, the tides, the fish swimming in the sea or the birds flying in the air.

There are unimportant people in this world, but they are people who believe they are unimportant and that's what keeps them so.

Do you know that Albert Einstein expected to go to his grave keeping secret all that he knew about the atom? He pledged to himself that he would never reveal his knowledge to anyone, not because he didn't understand the great good that would come to the world through right use of the atom, but because he knew that in the wrong hands it would become destructive and produce evil results.

realize there are some teachings that claim we are completely perfect and spiritual now, and therefore all of this would be unnecessary. In our spiritual identity that's true; but it certainly isn't true of our humanhood. And it is our humanhood, or to our humanhood, that we are trying to bring light so that we may outgrow this humanhood

But denying that you are a human being, and stating that you are already perfect and already spiritual and already have the mind of God, is merely a form of affirmation.

There is nothing more definite than this, that "I of my own self can do nothing"; that I of my own self am nothing; that I of my own self have nothing. "The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof.

The reason that you cannot feel any [spiritual] progress in yourself is that you cannot feel spiritual. There is no such thing as a person's feeling spiritual. That is as impossible as feeling that you are honest or feeling that you are moral.