Marianne Williamson Quotes

I was at a point where I couldn't find an agent or a manager, and I said, 'Okay, Lord. If this is what you have for me, I need you to work that. I need you to open doors.' I was at that point of truly surrendering whatever my will was, and, 'Lord, if this is what You want, You do it.' And, He did it.

God, as I may say, is forced to break men's hearts, before he can make them willing to cry to him, or be willing that he should have any concerns with them; the rest shut their eyes, stop their ears, withdraw their hearts, or say unto God, Be gone.

We hold that man is never so near grace as when he begins to feel he can do nothing at all.

Sometimes God has to remind you that you're weak so that you can be set free from your "self-sufficiency."

God can do nothing for me until I recognize the limits of what is humanly possible, allowing Him to do the impossible.

I think we are living in pretty scary times and people are looking for inspiration and are also more open to the spiritual possibilities.

We need God in ways we do not know. Don't limit your experience of God to what you can think to ask. Ask for the unknown joy.

God is something that needs rescuing from religion.

God doesn't move until we move first.

In agony or danger, no nature is atheist. The mind that knows not what to fly to, flies to God.

Rarely do we realize that we are in the midst of the extraordinary. Miracles occur all around us, signs from God show us the way, angels plead to be heard, but we pay little attention to them because we have been taught that we must follow certain formulas and rules if we want to find God. We do not realize that God is wherever we allow Him/Her to enter.

The awakening of the soul to its bondage and its effort to stand up and assert itself - this is called life.

Our demons are our own limitations, which shut us off from the realization of the ubiquity of the spirit . . . each of these demons is conquered in a vision quest.

One must lose one's life to find it.

I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. I pray because the need flows out of me all the time- waking and sleeping. It doesn't change God- it changes me.

As always at these times when he felt really in need of God the front of his mind was serene, but the deeper part, where faith did constant battle with doubt, was terrified that there would be no answer.

If you give it to God, He transforms your test into a testimony, your mess into a message, and your misery into a ministry.

God has not made this world to be a nest for us, and if we try to make it such for ourselves, he plants thorns in it, so that we may be compelled to mount and find our soul’s true home somewhere else, in a higher and nobler sphere than this poor world can give.

God often waits until we're out of ideas before He lets us know His plans. He competes for our hearts, not our attention.

If I've learned anything about prayer, it's that desperation drives discipline.

Isn't it true that you start your life a sweet child believing in everything under your father's roof? Then comes the day of the Laodiceans, when you know you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked, and with the visage of a gruesome grieving ghost you go shuddering through nightmare life.

If there are a thousand steps between us and God, He will take all but one. He will leave the final one for us. The choice is ours.

We find, sooner or later, that in prayer we either abandon ourselves or we abandon prayer.

I am a little pencil in God's hands. He does the thinking. He does the writing. He does everything and sometimes it is really hard because it is a broken pencil and He has to sharpen it a little more.