Quotes about Transformation
But when we ask Him to change them, He will. When we're angry, or upset for any reason, we're asked to say, "I'm angry but I'm willing not to be. I'm willing to see this situation differently." We ask the Holy Spirit to enter into the situation and show it to us from a different perspective.
— Marianne Williamson
So it is with you. The perfect you isn't something you need to create, because God already created it. The perfect you is the love within you. Your job is to allow the Holy Spirit to remove the fearful thinking that surrounds your perfect self, just as excess marble surrounded Michelangelo's perfect statue.
— Marianne Williamson
Love interrupts the past and opens the future to new probabilities.
— Marianne Williamson
Course in Miracles says that everyone we meet will either be our crucifier or our savior, depending on what we choose to be to them. Focusing on their guilt drives the nails of self-loathing more deeply into our own skin. Focusing on their innocence sets us free. Since 'no thoughts are neutral,' every relationship takes us deeper into Heaven or deeper into Hell.
— Marianne Williamson
I've heard it said that prayer doesn't change a situation for you so much as it changes you for the situation.
— Marianne Williamson
Slowly but surely, you will learn to behave as you would have wished to behave but were too wounded to know how.
— Marianne Williamson
A certain amount of desperation is usually necessary before we're ready for God.
— Marianne Williamson
you keep trying all your old tricks, the ones that never did work but that you keep thinking might work this time. Once you've had enough and you can't do it
— Marianne Williamson
The future is programmed in the present. To let the past go is to remember that in the present, my brother is innocent.
— Marianne Williamson
everyone we meet will either be our crucifier or our savior, depending on what we choose to be to them.
— Marianne Williamson
Similarly, if we want to be rid of fear, we cannot fight it but must replace it with love.
— Marianne Williamson
God knows our crooked places that need to be made straight, the wounds in our hearts that fester for years unhealed, the broken pieces of our lives that seem beyond repair. And He who is the author of miracles has infinite desire as well as power to heal them all.
— Marianne Williamson