Marianne Williamson's Quotes

God exists in eternity. The only point where eternity meets time is in the present. The present is the only time there is.

If you give your life as a wholehearted response to love, then love will wholeheartedly respond to you.

Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.

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

In our natural state, we are glorious beings. In the world of illusion, we are lost and imprisoned, slaves to our appetites and our will to false power.

Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.

The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive.

We receive His peace when we ask Him for it. We keep His peace by extending it to others. Those are the keys and there are no others.

We may have bad weather in Ireland, but the sun shines in the hearts of the people and that keeps us all warm.

Trying to suppress or eradicate symptoms on the physical level can be extremely important, but there's more to healing than that; dealing with psychological, emotional and spiritual issues involved in treating sickness is equally important.

God is definitely out of the closet.

Joy, has no cost.

Our key to transforming anything lies in our ability to reframe it.

Physical circumstances have very little to do with either our capacity to love or to attract love.

I've never seen service as separate from my spiritual practice or my spiritual teaching.

We need to shift from an economic organizing principle for human civilization, to a humanitarian organizing principle. Making money more important than your own children is a pathological way for an individual to run their affairs, and it's a pathological way for a society to run its affairs.

I want to be a cheerleader for women who have never even considered running for office or being involved in a campaign, but who in the quietness of their hearts might think, 'Why not me?'

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.

Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.

Dear God, Please send to me the spirit of Your peace. Then send, dear Lord, the spirit of peace from me to all the world. Amen.

The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.

We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right.

Maturity includes the recognition that no one is going to see anything in us that we don't see in ourselves. Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself.

Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.

May we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today, but rather to thoughts of mercy and compassion. We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.