22 Quotes by Joel S. Goldsmith

The reason that you cannot feel any progress in yourself is that you cannot feel spiritual. There is no such thing as a person’s feeling spiritual. That is as impossible as feeling that you are honest or feeling that you are moral.

The reason that you cannot feel any [spiritual] progress in yourself is that you cannot feel spiritual. There is no such thing as a person’s feeling spiritual. That is as impossible as feeling that you are honest or feeling that you are moral.

Whether you want to believe it or not, the truth is that in your humanhood you could not have come to a spiritual teaching. ... You are on the Path now only because at some period of your life you were inwardly touched, and you found yourself turned in a direction which you could not have taken by yourself, ...

I awaken in the morning with confidence, rejoicing in whatever work is given to me to do. Whatever that work is, I do it, not in order to earn a living or in a sense of performing an onerous duty; but, with joy and gladness, I let it unfold as the activity of God’s expression through me.

You govern your surroundings by the nature of what is taking place in your consciousness.

The Infinite Way is not a message, it is an experience.

Man is always seeking a power, a power to overcome something or destroy something; and therefore he is not living in the awareness of God, because in the realization of the presence of God there is no need to overcome, to destroy, or to do anything.

Prayer is the Word of God which comes to you when you are silent enough, still enough and expectant to receive it.

Life is not at the mercy of matter.