Top 250 Neville Goddard Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “The prophet said, “Be ye imitators of God as dear children.” How would I imitate God? Well, we are told that God calls things that are not seen as though they were seen, and the unseen becomes seen. This is the way the girl called forth praise and kindness from her employer. She carried on an imaginary conversation with her employer from the premise that he had praised her work, and he did.”

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102. “Somewhere within this realm of imagination there is a mood, a feeling of the wish fulfilled which, if appropriated, means success to you.”

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103. “William Blake: “In your own bosom you bear your heaven and earth, And all you behold, though it appears without, It is within, in your imagination, Of which this world of mortality is but a shadow.”

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104. “The perfect man judges not after appearances; he judges righteously. He sees himself and others as he desires himself and them to be. He hears what he wants to hear.”

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105. “If ye believe not that I AM He, ye shall die in your sins.” Unless man discovers that his consciousness is the cause of every expression of his life, he will continue seeking the cause of his confusion in the world of effects, and so shall die in his fruitless search.”

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106. “Prayer succeeds by avoiding conflict. Prayer is, above all things, easy. Its greatest enemy is effort.”

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107. “There is nothing wrong with our desire to transcend our present state. There would be no progress in this world were it not for man’s dissatisfaction with himself. It is natural for us to seek a more beautiful personal life; it is right that we wish for greater understanding, greater health, greater security.”

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108. “The undisciplined man’s attention is the servant of his vision rather than its master. It is captured by the pressing rather than the important.”

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109. “He who rises from his prayer a better man, his prayer has been granted.”

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110. “By desiring to be other than what you are, you can create an ideal of the person you want to be and assume that you are already that person.”

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111. “Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, and then you believe it to be true. Every dream could be realised by those self-disciplined enough to believe it. People are what you choose to make them; a man is according to the manner in which you look at him.”

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112. “Now, here’s a practical technique: the first thing you must do is know exactly what you want in this world. When you know exactly what you want, make as lifelike a representation as possible of what you would see and touch, and what you would.”

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113. “Life does not care whether you call yourself rich or poor; strong or weak. It will eternally reward you with that which you claim as true of yourself.”

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114. “Actually, you are destined to reach the point where you realise that through your own desire you can consciously create your successive destinies.”

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115. “Should a survey be made to determine the reason why so many seemingly educated men and women fail in their after-college years or should it be made to determine the reason for the different earning powers of the masses, there would be no doubt but that imagination played the important part. Such a survey would show that it is imagination which makes one a leader while the lack of it makes one a follower.”

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116. “Everyone is free to create his world as he wants it if he knows that the whole thing is responding to him.”

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117. “The numberless unrealized hopes and ambitions of man are the seeds which are buried within the consciousness or virgin womb of man.”

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118. “Everything in the world bears witness of the use or misuse of man’s inner talking.”

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119. “Spiritual growth is the gradual, I would say, transition from a God of tradition to a God of experience.”

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120. “The conscious generates ideas and impresses these ideas on the subconscious; the subconscious receives ideas and gives form and expression to them.”

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121. “Well, grace means a gift unmerited, unearned, unwarranted, a complete, wonderful gift that no one could ever earn – the gift of the Lord Jesus Christ!”

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122. “Far greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world.” This is the cry of everyone who finds his awareness of being to be God. Your recognition of this fact will automatically cleanse the temple, your consciousness, of the thieves and robbers, restoring to you that dominion over things which you lost the moment you forgot the command, “Thou shalt have no other God beside ME.”

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123. “This is a world of educated darkness where you and I – infinite beings as we are – entered for a purpose, and only a very small part of the immortal Self entered. That’s what we see here. You are an infinite Being, for you are God. Everyone is God but here on earth, we are just a spark of the immensity of our own fiery Being.”

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124. “The world was constructed in the mind’s eye, out of things unseen by the mortal eye, and made alive by faith.”

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125. “Be careful of your moods and feelings, for there is an unbroken connection between your feelings and your visible world. Your body is an emotional filter and bears the unmistakable marks of your prevalent emotions.”

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126. “He is in the world, and the world was made by Him, and the world knows Him not.”

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127. “The conditions and events of your life are your children formed from the molds of your subconscious impressions in sleep.”

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128. “One dreamer puts a medal on another dreamer, and they do not know it. It is only the awakening that is important. Awakening and doing the will of God. God’s will is in you active as your own Imagination, and His will is to realize the imaginal state. To realize something novel as this lady did or to maintain something to maintain in being, or to let things go that you feel are unlovely. I will do it all and only act, and stop.”

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129. “Think feelingly only of the state you desire to realize. Feeling the reality of the state sought and living and acting on that conviction is the way of all seeming miracles. All changes of expression are brought about through a change of feeling. A change of feeling is a change of destiny.”

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130. “Live in the feeling of being the one you want to be and that you shall be.”

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131. “Sleep is the time when the male or conscious mind turns from the world of sense to seek its lover or subconscious self.”

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132. “The spiritual man speaks to the natural man through the language of desire.”

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133. “God became man as a living soul, but He had to forget He was God to become man, and now man has to become a life-giving spirit, where he knows that everything is an imaginal activity.”

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134. “The consciousness of being is not dependent upon being anything. It preceded all conceptions of itself and shall be when all conceptions of itself shall cease to be. “I AM the beginning and the end.” That is, all things or conceptions of myself begin and end in me, but I, the formless awareness, remains forever.”

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135. “There is no coal of character so dead that it will not glow and flame if but slightly turned. Don’t blame; only resolve. Life, like music, can by a new setting turn all its discords into harmonies.”

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136. “The faith that moves mountains is faith in yourself. No man has faith in God who lacks confidence in himself. Your faith in God is measured by your confidence in yourself.”

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137. “Man thinks he has to work himself out of something, but it is God asleep in you as a living soul, and then we are reborn as a life-giving spirit. We do it here in this little classroom called Earth or beyond the grave, for you cannot die. You can be just as asleep beyond the grave. I meet them constantly, and they are just like this. Same loves and same hates. No change. They will go through it until they finally awake, until they.”

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138. “All meditation ends at last with the thinker, and he finds he is what he, himself, has conceived.”

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139. “The great secret of success is to focus the attention on the feeling of the wish fulfilled without permitting any distraction.”

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140. “You do not really give to another – you resurrect that which is asleep within him. “The damsel is not dead, but sleepeth.” Death is merely a sleeping and a forgetting. Age and decay are the sleep – not death – of youth and health. Recognition of a state vibrates or awakens it.”

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141. “As we lift up our consciousness, our world reshapes itself in harmony with the level to which we have risen.”

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142. “Man is the living soul, turning slowly into a life-giving Spirit. But you cannot tell it except in a parable or metaphor to excite the mind of man to get him to go out and prove it.”

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143. “I know beyond all doubt that there is nothing for man to do but to change his own concept of himself to assume greatness and sustain this assumption. If we walk as though we were already the ideal we serve, we will rise to the level of our assumption, and find a world in harmony with our assumption. We will not have to lift a finger to make it so, for it is already so. It was always so.”

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144. “When you know what you want, assume you have it. Believe your assumption is true. Look at your world mentally and see your fulfilled desire. Do this and you are calling forth a response to your thoughts, and in the not distant future you will find yourself physically occupying the state imagined.”

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145. “Faith does not question – Faith knows.”

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146. “Your world in its every detail is your consciousness objectified.”

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147. “Think truly, and thy thoughts shall the world’s famine feed; Speak truly, and each word of thine shall be a fruitful seed; Live truly, and thy life shall be a great and noble creed.”

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148. “You can be anything in this world but you cannot know it or expect it to come unless you Act. If you react based on the past, you continue in the same pattern. To be the man you desire to be you must create the scene, as this lady did, and the whole world will be convulsed if that is necessary to bring it to pass. There is no other power but God, but God had to ‘forget’ he was God in this state of sleep, and then He awakens and consciously determines the conditions he wants in the world.”

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149. “The essential feeling of naturalness can be achieved by persistently filling your consciousness with imagination – imagining yourself being what you want to be or having what you desire.”

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150. “The transformation of self requires that we meditate on a given phrase, a phrase which implies that our ideal is realized, and inwardly affirm it over and over and over again until we are inwardly affected by its implication, until we are possessed by it. Hold fast to your noble inner convictions or “conversations.”

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