Emmet Fox Quotes

Whenever you are afraid of something you are worshipping it. Whatever you fear, you bow down to and give it power.

You must not allow yourself to dwell for a single moment on any kind of negative thought.

The story of your life is really the story of the relations between yourself and God.

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

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

To be afraid is to have more faith in evil than in God.

Look where you are going because you will inevitably go where you are looking.

Most people who have a problem concentrate on the problem. They take it to bed with them and stay awake all night thinking it over. Let go of that problem. Rise above it in consciousness.

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

Claim your divine, glorious selfhood. Think it, talk it, live it and it will demonstrate itself in your life.

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

There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer.

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

A man dies daily, only to be reborn in the morning, bigger, better and wiser.

When you are in difficulties, look upon the overcoming of them as a great adventure.

We make our own world by the way in which we think; for we really do live in a world of our own thoughts.

We build in thought the conditions that will later come into manifestation on the physical plane.

A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all. If only you could love enough you would be the happiest and most powerful being in the world.

When you resist a difficulty you antagonize it, and it bites back.

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.

Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting.

The root of all difficulties is a lack of the sense of the Presence of God.

Love is by far the most important thing of all.

a small spark can start a great fire

If you want to dismiss a negative thought, the only way to do so is to think of something positive and constructive.

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

It is not possible that you could ever find yourself anywhere where God was not fully present, fully active, able and willing to set you free.

You cannot be healthy; you cannot be happy; you cannot be prosperous; if you have a bad disposition.

The art of life is to live in the present moment, and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God Himself.

Your Heart's Desire is the Voice of God, and that Voice must be obeyed sooner or later.

Supply yourself with a mental equivalent, and the thing must come to you.

Never forget that the circumstances of your life for tomorrow are molded by your mental conduct today.

Love is always creative, fear always destructive.

When things are going wrong declare constantly that you are not going to be afraid or intimidated by any outer condition.

If people would reflect that one can only do one thing at a time and therefore there is never more than one thing to do at a time, there would be less fatigue in the world.

Life is consciousness.

Live in the present moment and find your interest and happiness in the things of today.

Recognize success with thanksgiving and build more success on that.

To radiate any quality, that quality must be within yourself.

When the mind changes the outer expression must change to correspond. We are transferred by the renewing of our minds.

We affirm the harmony that we seek in order to provide the subconscious with a blue print of the work to be done.

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

Fear is the ultimate cause of failure and disappointment.

Do it trembling if you must, but do it!

We grow into that which we admire.

Read The Golden Key several times. Do exactly what it says, and if you are persistent enough you will overcome any difficulty.

You are not happy because you're healthy, you are healthy because you're happy

The art of life is to live in the present moment

Where you stand today does not matter; it is the direction in which your are moving, and the rate at which you travel, that count.

You can never solve a problem on the same level as the problem.