Marianne Williamson Faith Quotes

#1. A miracle is a shift in perception from fear to love - from a belief in what is not real, to faith in that which is. That shift in perception changes everything.

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#2. The heart's transformation is not attained through the mind - it's attained through surrender, authenticity, forgiveness, faith, honesty, acceptance, vulnerability, humility, willingness, nonjudgment, and other characterological values that have to be learned and relearned continuously.

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#3. Genuine transcendence doesn't just look away from human suffering and say, "I am at peace, so I'm at the mountaintop." Genuine transcendence looks human suffering in the eye and attains peace because of a faith in things unseen.

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#4. As long as we remain vigilant at building our internal abundance - an abundance of integrity, an abundance of forgiveness, an abundance of service, an abundance of love - then external lack is bound to be temporary.

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#5. It's nice to see arrogance humbled.

Wellington Mara

#6. We tend to have tremendous faith in the power of our disasters and far too little faith in the power of miracles.

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#7. In a way, it is I who must do the grunt work. I want to work with kids ... I hope we can grow so much that someone else can take care of what I do now.

Sofia Hellqvist

#8. 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.

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#9. Faith doesn't mean you don't have to do the work; it just means you're absolutely certain the work will pay off.

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#10. Where there is lack, God's abundance is on the way. Hold on. Have faith. It's coming.

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#11. We must learn to live triumphantly amid the traumas and pressures we face daily.

Billy Graham

#12. I am usually cooking at least four times a week if I am home. The easiest thing that I do a lot is gazpacho. It's simple and it tastes best if you let it sit over night in the refrigerator ... I don't want anybody near me when I am cooking. If I am going to make a mistake, it has to be my fault.

Leonard Slatkin

#13. Growing up in Ireland, there never seemed to be the notion that children should be seen and not heard. We all looked forward to mealtimes when we'd sit around the table and talk about our days. Storytelling and long, rambling conversations were considered good things.

Maeve Binchy

#14. Hope lies in having more faith in the power of God to heal us than in the power of anything to hurt or destroy us. In realizing that as children of God we are bigger than our problems, we have the power at last to confront them.

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#15. Miracles occur in response to every problem, yet it is my faith and compassion that bring them forth.

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

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#17. We lack faith in *what* exists within us because we lack faith in *Who* exists within us.

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#18. Dear God, Please lift me above the shadows Of my negative self-perception. Please deliver me of the chains That keep me bound to a smaller life. Please show me the beauty You have placed in me, And give me faith that it is there. Amen.

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#19. My main problem is that over and over again, I try to get all my characters to say stuff that I think is so witty or erudite you know, so that everybody will go.

Anne Lamott

#20. The Ohio Legislature's passed a law to allow concealed weapons in day care centers, but interesting: this same Legislature, in its wisdom, doesn't allow concealed weapons in the statehouse.

Sherrod Brown

#21. During times of challenge, what you have faith in is what determines what the challenge will turn into. Have faith in the reality of the challenge, and it will birth more challenges. Have faith in the reality of miracles, and the challenge will transform into something else.

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#22. I'm not a princess anyway so I find that quite weird to be labelled as one.

Zara Phillips

#23. A man should carry nature in his head.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#24. Well the frog men finally got Rosie.

Art Donovan

#25. There is no such thing as a faithless person.' Faith is an aspect of consciousness. We either have faith in fear or we have faith in love, faith

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#26. I had an unbelievable opportunity here to try and follow in similar footsteps [of Michael Jordan], but in a different capacity hopefully. I took that opportunity and I'm excited about it.

Dwyane Wade

#27. To trust in the force that moves the universe is faith. Faith isn't blind, it's visionary.

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#28. Lunatics have no age. If we were crazy, you and I, we might be a great deal younger.

Yasunari Kawabata

#29. Don't play the occasion, play the game.

Alex Ferguson

#30. His young wife - thirty years his junior - ran toward him with open arms. Rather than simply embracing him, she leaped onto him, wrapped all four limbs around him like a squid, and clung.

Daniel Arenson

#31. To me, hope is a moral imperative. I have hope and faith in forces unseen.

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