The places in our personality where we tend to deviate from love are not out faults, but our wounds. God doesn't want to punish us, but to heal us. And that is how He wishes us to view the wounds in other people.
Marianne WilliamsonYour job is to allow the Holy Spirit to remove the fearful thinking that surrounds your perfect self.
Marianne WilliamsonChoosing joy involves spiritual surrender, and sometimes we would rather hold on to the pain than surrender our egos.
Marianne WilliamsonSpeak from your mind and people will hear you with their mind. Speak from your heart and people will hear you with their heart.
Marianne WilliamsonIf you did something in 1975 that you deeply regret and that you now can recognize as having been profoundly irresponsible, for example, the only way to be lifted out of deep regret and the pain over it is through atonement - through the kind of remorse that leads to genuine atonement, the making of amends, and forgiveness of self and others.
Marianne Williamson