Emmet Fox Quotes - Page 3

Whatever you experience in your life is really but the outpicturing of your own thoughts and beliefs. Now, you can change these thoughts and beliefs, and then the outer picture must change too. The outer picture cannot change until you change your thought.

Love is always creative, fear always destructive.

Recognize success with thanksgiving and build more success on that.

Your fixed convictions concerning the things that really matter mold your destiny.

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.

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

A dynamic person is one who really makes a difference in the world; who does something that changes things or other people. The magnitude of the work done may not be great, but the world is different because that person has lived and worked. The real secret of a dynamic personality is to believe that God works through you, whatever you may be doing; to put his service first, and to be as sincere, practical, and efficient as you know how.

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.

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

Let us be merciful in our mental judgments of our brothers and sisters, for, in truth, we are all one, and the more deeply they seem to err, the more urgent is the need for us to help them with the right thought, and so make it easier for them to get free.

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

To become proficient in any field you must practise. There is simply no achievement without practice and the more practice, provided it is done intelligently, the greater will the proficiency be and the sooner will it be attained.

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

There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer: no disease that love will not heal: no door that enough love will not open...It makes no difference how deep set the trouble: how hopeless the outlook: how muddled the tangle: how great the mistake. 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.

A smile costs nothing in money, time, or effort but it is literally true that it can be of supreme importance in ones life.

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.

Love is by far the most important thing of all.

The art of life is to live in the present moment

And the Truth turns out to be nothing less than the amazing but undeniable fact that the whole outer world -whether it be the physical body, the common things of life, the winds and the rain, the clouds, the earth itself -is amenable to man's thought, and that he had dominion over it when he knows it.

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.

Life is a state of consciousness.

Fear is the ultimate cause of failure and disappointment.

Human nature is such that humans can turn to God anywhere at any time, and by believing in His care and protection, and thinking in accordance with this belief, fill their hearts with peace and poise, rebuild their bodies into health and strength, and surround themselves with harmonious and joyous conditions.

a small spark can start a great fire

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