Marianne Williamson Quotes

All of a sudden, you’re not too proud to ask for help. That’s what it means to surrender to God.

Childishness is when we’re so preoccupied with things that ultimately don’t matter, that we lose our essential connection with things that do.

God gives us His strength by giving us His vision of things. Our seeing people as innocent is the only way to achieve God’s peace.

Grandiosity is always a cover for despair.

I am a glorious child of God. I am joyful, serene, positive, and loving.

I atone in my heart for the mistakes I have made: the recklessness and irresponsibility, the laziness and dishonesty, the harm I have caused to myself or others. I pray for those who I may have hurt,...

I remember spending years of my life so upset about all of the life choices I felt I had available that I never moved. I was paralyzed by all the possibilities. I couldn't figure out which road would...

I said to myself, Marianne. Next time you’re down on your knees, why don’t you just stay there?

I surrender my fears and burdens to God. I needn’t carry into my day the burdens of my existence. Rather, I surrender them into the hands of God. I know that they will be lifted from me, for what I pl...

In order to escape the illusion and find inner peace, remember that only love in a situation is real.

In the absence of love, we began slowly but surely to fall apart.

In the holy relationship, it’s understood that we all have unhealed places, and that healing is the purpose of our being with another person.

It is only when we have the courage to face things exactly as they are, without any self-deception or illusion, that a light will develop out of events, by which the path to success may be recognized.

It is our own thoughts that hold the key to miraculous transformation.

It’s all right if this part of your journey is not pleasant. Part of your repatterning is learning to be with unpleasantness in a healthy way. The mature and sober person knows that on some days thing...

It’s nothing more than a mental habit to idealize another time, another condition, another reality. It is simply a way to avoid the reality of our lives right now. And in avoiding the reality of our p...

Life might have taught you that emotions are dangerous. Perhaps as a child, you were told things such as, Don’t you cry or I’ll give you something to cry about!—an emotionally tyrannical message that...

Love interrupts the past and opens the future to new probabilities.

Of course things might have gone roughly in the past, but the past is over and cannot touch you unless you hold on to it. Right now, in this moment, the universe is responding not to your past but to...

Our self-perception determines our behavior. If we think we’re small, limited, inadequate creatures, then we tend to behave that way, and the energy we radiate reflects those thoughts no matter what w...