Top 180 Florence Scovel Shinn Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “You can control any situation if you first control yourself.”

— Florence Scovel Shinn

52. “Make an affirmation immediately upon waking. For example: “Thy will be done this day! Today is a day of completion, I give thanks for this perfect day, miracle shall follow miracle and wonders shall never cease.” Make this a habit, and one will see wonders and miracles come into his life.”

— Florence Scovel Shinn

53. “The trouble with most people is that they want to know the way and the channels beforehand. They want to tell Supreme Intelligence just how their prayers should be answered. They do not trust the wisdom and ingenuity of God.”

— Florence Scovel Shinn

54. “Man can change his conditions by changing his words.”

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55. “We must substitute fear for faith, for fear is only inverted faith; it is faith in evil instead of good.”

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56. “The Divine Plan unfolds through following intuition.”

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57. “The Light of the Christ within now wipes out all fear, doubt, anger and resentment. God’s love pours through me, an irresistible magnetic current. I see only perfection and draw to me my own.”

— Florence Scovel Shinn

58. “Hope looks forward, Faith knows it has already received and acts accordingly.”

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59. “Through his spoken word, man is continually making laws for himself.”

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60. “Most people consider life a battle, but it is not a battle, it is a game.”

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61. “Ye have no need to fight, stand ye still and see the salvation of the Lord.”

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62. “Whatever man feels deeply or images clearly, is impressed upon the subconscious mind, and carried out in minutest detail.”

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63. “Anger without power is folly.”

— Florence Scovel Shinn

64. “The superconscious mind is the God Mind within each man, and is the realm of perfect ideas.”

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65. “Never do today what intuition says to do tomorrow.”

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66. “So long as man resists a situation, he will have it with him.”

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67. “Poise is power.”

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68. “When one has made his demands upon the Universal, he must be ready for surprises. Everything may seem to be going wrong, when in reality, it is going right.”

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69. “Bills should be paid cheerfully, all money should be sent forth fearlessly and with a blessing.”

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70. “A harmonious person is never vibrating at the same rate as a germ.”

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71. “After man knows the truth, he cannot be too careful of his words.”

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72. “The perfect plan includes health, wealth, love and perfect selfexpression. This is the square of life, which brings perfect happiness.”

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73. “Children are sensitive and receptive to the thoughts of others about them, and often outpicture the fears of their parents.”

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74. “Nothing stands between man and his highest ideals and every desire of his heart, but doubt and fear.”

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75. “All things whatsoever ye ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.” “You must act as if you had already received.”

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76. “It would not be necessary to make an affirmation more than once if one had perfect faith.”

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77. “There is no there – there is only here.”

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78. “No man is a success in business unless he loves his work.”

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79. “A keen observer of life once said, “no man can fail, if some one person sees him successful.” Such is the power of the vision, and many a great man owed his success to a wife, or sister, or a friend who “believed in him” and held without wavering to the perfect pattern!”

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80. “Man must prepare for the thing he has asked for, when there isn’t the slightest sign of it in sight.”

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81. “I let go of everything not divinely designed for me, and the perfect plan of my life now comes to pass.”

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82. “I will restore to you the years the locusts have eaten.”

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83. “The only person to change, is yourself. As you change, all the conditions around you will change! People will change! When you are undisturbed by a situation it falls away of its own weight.”

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84. “I am always under direct inspiration; I make right decisions, quickly.”

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85. “Man must live suspended in the moment.”

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86. “Do not neglect the day of small things, for little beginnings have big endings.”

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87. “So we see man’s work is ever with himself.”

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88. “There is an old saying that man only dares use his words for three purposes, to “heal, bless or prosper.” What man says of others will be said of him, and what he wishes for another, he is wishing for himself.”

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89. “Bless your enemy, and you rob him of his ammunition.” His arrows will be transmuted into blessings.”

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90. “We prove God by showing active faith, which puts to flight all adverse appearances.”

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91. “Visualizing is a mental process governed by the reasoning or conscious mind; visioning is a spiritual process, governed by intuition, or the superconscious mind.”

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92. “Man’s freedom comes through fulfilling his destiny, bringing into manifestation the Divine Design of his life.”

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93. “The metaphysician knows that all disease has a mental correspondence, and in order to heal the body one must first “heal the soul.”

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94. “You may think that all your happiness depends upon obtaining one particular thing in life; later on, you praise the Lord that you didn’t get it.”

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95. “In the morning, I’ll know just what to do.”

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96. “No man gives to himself but himself, and no man takes away from himself but himself: the “Game of Life” is a game of solitaire, as you change, all conditions will change.”

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97. “Intuition is a spiritual faculty high above the reasoning mind, but on that path is all that you desire or require. In.”

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98. “The thing man seeks is seeking him – the telephone was seeking Bell!”

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99. “Although some people think that life is a battle, it is actually a game of giving and receiving.”

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100. “Before you call you are answered, for the supply precedes the demand.”

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