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“If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.”
― Emmet Fox

“There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer: no disease that love will not heal: no door that enough love will not open...It makes no difference how deep set the trouble: how hopeless the outlook: how muddled the tangle: how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all. If only you could love enough you would be the happiest and most powerful being in the world...”
― Emmet Fox

“Do it trembling if you must, but do it!”
― Emmet Fox

“The art of life is to live in the present moment and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God himself.”
― Emmet Fox

“The root of all difficulties is a lack of the sense of the Presence of God.”
― Emmet Fox

“It is not possible that you could ever find yourself anywhere where God was not fully present, fully active, able and willing to set you free.”
― Emmet Fox, Find And Use Your Inner Power

“a small spark can start a great fire”
― Emmet Fox

“If you have no time for prayer and meditation, you will have lots of time for sickness and trouble.”
― Emmet Fox, Around the Year with Emmet Fox: A Book of Daily Readings

“As you grow in true spiritual power and understanding you will actually find that many outer rules and regulations will become unnecessary; but this will be because you have really risen above them; never, never, because you have fallen below them. This point in your development, where your understanding of Truth enables you to dispense with certain outer props and regulations, is the Spiritual Coming of Age. When you really are no longer spiritually a minor, you will cease to need some of the outer observances that formerly seemed indispensable; but your resulting life will be purer, truer, freer, and less selfish than it was before; and that is the test.”
― Emmet Fox, The Sermon on the Mount: The Key to Success in Life

“Your Heart's Desire is the Voice of God, and that Voice must be obeyed sooner or later.”
― Emmet Fox, Power Through Constructive Thinking

“All day long the thoughts that occupy your mind, your Secret Place, as Jesus calls it, are moulding your destiny for good or evil; in fact, the truth is that the whole of our life’s experience is but the outer expression of inner thought. Now we can choose the sort of thoughts that we entertain. It will be a little difficult to break a bad habit of thought, but it can be done. We can choose how we shall think—in point of fact, we always do choose—and therefore our lives are just the result of the kind of thoughts we have”
― Emmet Fox, The Sermon on the Mount: The Key to Success in Life - A Practical Approach to Jesus's Teachings, Personal Transformation, and the Power of Positive Thinking in the Sermon on the Mount

“there are as many universes as there are individuals to form them through thinking.”
― Emmet Fox, Getting Results By Prayer

“Prayer does change things.”
― Emmet Fox, The Sermon on the Mount: The Key to Success in Life - A Practical Approach to Jesus's Teachings, Personal Transformation, and the Power of Positive Thinking in the Sermon on the Mount

“You can have anything in life that you really want, but you must be prepared to take the responsibilities that go with it. God is ready the moment you are.”
― Emmet Fox, Around the Year with Emmet Fox: A Book of Daily Readings

“All day long the thoughts that occupy your mind, your Secret Place, as Jesus calls it, are moulding your destiny for good or evil; in fact, the truth is that the whole of our life’s experience is but the outer expression of inner thought.”
― Emmet Fox, The Sermon on the Mount: The Key to Success in Life - A Practical Approach to Jesus's Teachings, Personal Transformation, and the Power of Positive Thinking in the Sermon on the Mount

“Man is a mental being, and to know this is the first step on the road to freedom and prosperity, for as long as you believe yourself to be primarily physical, a superior kind of animal, you will remain in bondage—in bondage, that is to say, to your own habits of thought, for there is no other bondage.”
― Emmet Fox, Around the Year with Emmet Fox: A Book of Daily Readings

“Pray definitely for yourself every day or you will get nowhere.”
― Emmet Fox, Find and Use Your Inner Power: A Practical and Spiritual Guide to Happiness and Success in Daily Life

“It is the law that any difficulties that can come to you at any time, must be exactly what you need most at the moment to enable you to take the next step forward by overcoming them. The only real misfortune, the only real tragedy, comes when we suffer without learning the lesson.”
― Emmet Fox, Around the Year with Emmet Fox: A Book of Daily Readings

“Lack of any kind is always traceable to the fact that we have been seeking our supply from some secondary source, instead of from God himself, the author and giver of life.”
― Emmet Fox, Around the Year with Emmet Fox: A Book of Daily Readings

“It cannot be your duty to do anything that is beyond your reach or your strength at the moment. It cannot be your duty to do anything that sacrifices your own integrity or your own spiritual development.”
― Emmet Fox, Around the Year with Emmet Fox: A Book of Daily Readings

“There is nothing in the universe that you cannot do or be if you are mentally ready.”
― Emmet Fox, Around the Year with Emmet Fox: A Book of Daily Readings

“No matter how unattractive or how dangerous the road ahead may be, it is better than the road back. The road ahead may be veiled from sight—but you must teach yourself to regard the unknown as friendly. Remember that God is always on the road ahead. … cause me to know the way wherein I should walk; for I lift up my soul unto thee (Psalm 143:8).”
― Emmet Fox, Around the Year with Emmet Fox: A Book of Daily Readings

“Suppose your whole world seems to rock on its foundations. Hold on steadily, let it rock, and when the rocking is over, the picture will have reassembled itself into something much nearer to your heart's desire”
― Emmet Fox

“He clearly indicates throughout his teaching that the time has come when man must make each and every day a spiritual Sabbath by knowing and doing all things in a spiritual light.”
― Emmet Fox, The Sermon on the Mount: The Key to Success in Life - A Practical Approach to Jesus's Teachings, Personal Transformation, and the Power of Positive Thinking in the Sermon on the Mount

“We know the Truth; we do not judge by appearances. We know that we live in a mental world, and to know that is the key to life. If a child could be taught only one thing, it should be taught that this is a mental world. I would let all the other things go and teach him that.”
― Emmet Fox, The Mental Equivalent: The Secret Of Demonstration

“A general summing up, such as this, is highly characteristic of the old Oriental mode of approach to a religious and philosophical teaching, and it naturally recalls the Eight-fold Path of Buddhism, the Ten Commandments of Moses, and other such compact groupings of ideas. Jesus concerned himself exclusively with the teaching of general principles, and these general principles always had to do with mental states, for he knew that if one’s mental states are right, everything else must be right too, whereas, if these are wrong, nothing else can be right. Unlike the other great religious teachers, he gives us no detailed instructions about what we are to do or are not to do; he does not tell us either to eat or to drink, or to refrain from eating or drinking certain things; or to carry out various ritual observances at certain times and seasons. Indeed, the whole current of his teaching is anti-ritualistic anti-formalist.”
― Emmet Fox, The Sermon on the Mount: The Key to Success in Life - A Practical Approach to Jesus's Teachings, Personal Transformation, and the Power of Positive Thinking in the Sermon on the Mount

“It seems that human nature is very prone to believe what it wants to believe, rather than to incur the labor of really searching the Scriptures with an open mind.”
― Emmet Fox, The Sermon on the Mount: The Key to Success in Life - A Practical Approach to Jesus's Teachings, Personal Transformation, and the Power of Positive Thinking in the Sermon on the Mount

“- but you must positively claim health, harmony, and True Place, if you really want those things.”
― Emmet Fox, Find And Use Your Inner Power

“Realizing God as Truth will save you hours of work in research in any field. You will be led to the right book or the right place or the right person without loss of time, or the necessary information will come to you in some other way.”
― Emmet Fox, Alter Your Life: A Life-Changing Biblical Meditation Program for Success, Health, and Prosperity

“Some day (when we have enough spiritual growth) we will come to see that the seemingly disjointed happenings, the apparent accidents, are really part of an orderly pattern.”
― Emmet Fox, Around the Year with Emmet Fox: A Book of Daily Readings