Miracles arise from conviction. Be convicted about these things: Miracles can happen. Miracles do happen. Love makes them happen.
Marianne WilliamsonWe receive His peace when we ask Him for it. We keep His peace by extending it to others. Those are the keys and there are no others.
Marianne WilliamsonThe highest level of prayer is not a prayer for anything. It is a deep and profound silence, in which we allow ourselves to be still and know Him. In that silence, we are changed. We are calmed. We are illumined. Prayer is meant to dissolve the worldly focus, to dissolve our sense of a separate self, to help us detach from an insane world order. We pray that He might flood our minds. Prayer is like pouring hot water on an ice cube, melting the cold and encrusted thought forms that still surround our hearts.
Marianne WilliamsonGiven how deeply the ways of war have penetrated our collective consciousness, it will take spiritual power to turn the issue around.
Marianne WilliamsonThe bottom line in love is not whether someone loves you, but whether someone chooses you.
Marianne WilliamsonNo matter what is happening in our lives, we choose how we wish to think about it. And the greatest gift we give ourselves is often our willingness to change our minds. Despite what might seem to be the saddest and most intractable situation, we have the power to believe that something else is possible, that things can change, that a miracle can happen.
Marianne Williamson