Florence Scovel Shinn Quotes

Feed your fears and your faith will starve. Feed your faith, and your fears will.

Feed your faith and your doubts will starve to death.

Are you gonna fuel your faith or fuel your fear? I'm all about fueling my faith, especially when it's hard to do so.

If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.

We can choose to gather to our hearts the thorns of disappointment, failure, loneliness, and dismay in our present situation. Or we can gather the flowers of God's grace, boundless love, abiding presence, and unmatched joy. I choose to gather the flowers.

The Vedanta teaches men to have faith in themselves first.

Fear and guilt are your only enemies. Love and awareness are your true friends. Do not confuse one with the other, for one will kill you, while the other gives you life.

Both faith and fear may sail into your harbor, but only allow faith to drop anchor.

Hope that is the only antidote to fear.

Here's an experiment: For one whole day think, speak, and act exactly as you would if you were absolutely convinced of the truth of the statements that God has all power and infinite intelligence, and that His nature is infinite goodness and love. To think in this manner all day will be the most difficult thing, because thought is so subtle. To speak in accordance with these truths will be easier, if you are vigilant. To act in accordance with them will be the easiest part, although it may require much in the way of moral courage.

The bible says no man can take your joy. That means no person can make you live with a negative attitude. No circumstance, no adversity can force you to live in despair. As Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of wheelchair-bound President Franklin D. Roosevelt, often said, ‘No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

It saddens me how much fear we've instilled in ourselves.

What is fear but courage's shadow?

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

You deal with doubt all the time. You have to choose to believe God in every situation. I remind myself all the time, get out of fear. Get out of doubt. Get back in faith.

For your life to be great,your faith must be bigger than your fear.

The greatest need we have is not to do things, but to believe things.

Claim your divine, glorious selfhood. Think it, talk it, live it and it will demonstrate itself in your life.

I am fully equipped for the Divine Plan of my life.

If you will, then you will, for nothing can withstand your will. As your faith is, so you are, where your mind is there you are.

Worry and anxiety are sand in the machinery of life; faith is the oil.

Believe in yourself.reach down inside.the love you found will set you free.Believe in youself.You would come alive.Have faith in what you do.You'll make it through

Belief is a powerful thing.

We are in charge of our attitudes.

When you practice yoga, first your personality changes, the faith increases, then confidence improves