Quotes by Marianne Williamson

As we become purer channels for God's light, we develop an appetite for the sweetness that is possible in this world. A miracle worker is not geared toward fighting the world that is, but toward creating the world that could be.
– Marianne Williamson
God exists in eternity. The only point where eternity meets time is in the present. The present is the only time there is.
– Marianne Williamson
God is definitely out of the closet.
– Marianne Williamson
If I choose to bless another person, I will always end up feeling more blessed.
– Marianne Williamson
In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it.
– Marianne Williamson
Joy, has no cost.
– Marianne Williamson
Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.
– Marianne Williamson
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.
– Marianne Williamson
Some men know that a light touch of the tongue, running from a woman's toes to her ears, lingering in the softest way possible in various places in between, given often enough and sincerely enough, would add immeasurably to world peace.
– Marianne Williamson
Spiritual progress is like detoxification. Things have to come up in order to be released. Once we have asked to be healed, then our unhealed places are forced to the surface.
– Marianne Williamson
The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.
– Marianne Williamson
We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present.
– Marianne Williamson
When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce.
– Marianne Williamson
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.
– Marianne Williamson
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.
– Marianne Williamson
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.
– Marianne Williamson
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.
– Marianne Williamson
The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.
– Marianne Williamson
The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self.
– Marianne Williamson
The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive.
– Marianne Williamson
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.
– Marianne Williamson
Love knows how to form itself. God will do his work if we do ours. Our job is to prepare ourselves for love. When we do, love finds us every time.
– Marianne Williamson
Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.
– Marianne Williamson
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.
– Marianne Williamson
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?'
– Marianne Williamson
I deepen my experience of God through prayer, meditation, and forgiveness.
– Marianne Williamson
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.
– Marianne Williamson
Fill you mind with the meaningless stimuli of a world preoccupied with meaningless things, and it will not be easy to feel peace in your heart.
– Marianne Williamson
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.
– Marianne Williamson
As we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence actually liberates others.
– Marianne Williamson