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Emmet Fox

(1886–1951) Pastor United States

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Emmet Fox was a pastor from the United States, best known for The Sermon on the Mount.

Quick Facts About Emmet Fox

Born: July 30, 1886
Died: August 13, 1951
Nationality: United States
Profession: Pastor
Notable works: The Sermon on the Mount

About Emmet Fox

Emmet Fox was an Irish New Thought spiritual leader of the early 20th century, primarily through the years of the Great Depression until his death in 1951. Fox's large Divine Science church services were held in New York City. He is today considered a spiritual godparent of Alcoholics Anonymous.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Emmet Fox

There is no difficulty that enough LOVE will not conquer, no disease that enough LOVE will not heal, no door that enough…

Bridges

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And the Truth turns out to be nothing less than the amazing but undeniable fact that the whole outer world -whether it…

Amenable

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You are not happy because you are well. You are well because you are happy. You are not depressed because trouble has…

Change your thoughts

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The story of your life is really the story of the relations between yourself and God.

God

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All day long the thoughts that occupy your mind, your Secret Place, as Jesus calls it, are moulding your destiny for good…

Bad habit

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Here's an experiment: For one whole day think, speak, and act exactly as you would if you were absolutely convinced of the…

And love

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The art of life is to live in the present moment

Art

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Your fixed convictions concerning the things that really matter mold your destiny.

Conviction

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Fear is the ultimate cause of failure and disappointment.

Causes

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Supply yourself with a mental equivalent, and the thing must come to you.

Psychology

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We build in thought the conditions that will later come into manifestation on the physical plane.

Attraction

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“As you grow in true spiritual power and understanding you will actually find that many outer rules and regulations will become unnecessary;…

Coming of age

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I send out thoughts of love and peace and healing to the whole universe: to all trees and plants and growing things,…

Attraction

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Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting.

Boast

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We make our own world by the way in which we think; for we really do live in a world of our…

Inspiration

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“He clearly indicates throughout his teaching that the time has come when man must make each and every day a spiritual Sabbath…

Education

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If you have no time for prayer and meditation, you will have lots of time for sickness and trouble.

Godly

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A smile costs nothing in money, time, or effort but it is literally true that it can be of supreme importance in…

Cost

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It is the food which you furnish to your mind that determines the whole character of your life.

Character

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“chosen to hold; and therefore they are of our own ordering; and therefore there is perfect justice in the universe. No suffering…

Another man

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When the mind changes the outer expression must change to correspond. We are transferred by the renewing of our minds.

Expression

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What you think upon grows. Whatever you allow to occupy your mind you magnify in your life. Whether the subject of your…

Atrophy

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To be afraid is to have more faith in evil than in God.

Evil

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It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook how muddled the tangle, how great the…

Differences

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To become proficient in any field you must practise. There is simply no achievement without practice and the more practice, provided it…

Achievement

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Emmet Fox by topic

Life (23) Love (18) Time (14) Philosophy of Mind (13) Thinking (13) Ifs (13) Psychology (11) Difficulty (10) Inspirational (9) God (9) Way (8)