For many people, God is a frightening idea. Asking God for help doesn't seem very comforting if we think of Him as something outside ourselves, or capricious, or judgmental. But God is love and He dwells within us. We are created in His image, or mind, which means that we are extensions of His love, or Sons and Daughters of God.
Marianne WilliamsonPeople who hate often do so with great conviction. What we need are more people who love with conviction.
Marianne WilliamsonIt's funny, I see Wendy Kaminer herself as a kind of guru - a guru of the fashionably cynical set. Yet she uses the term "guru" to minimize my career, to marginalize my thoughts and to trivialize my work, as well as those of others.
Marianne WilliamsonThe desire for transcendence is intimately connected with the desire for creativity. It is just as essential to who and what we are.
Marianne WilliamsonTo the ego mind, surrender means giving up. To the spiritual mind, surrender means giving in and receiving.
Marianne Williamson