Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Emmet Fox (American New Thought Leader)

Emmet Fox (1886–1951) was an Irish-American New Thought spiritual leader, author, teacher, healer, and mystic. He was well known for his extensive Divine Science church services in New York City during the Great Depression.

Born in Cobh, County Cork, Ireland, Fox was the son of a physician and member of the Irish parliament. An electrical engineer, Fox studied New Thought from the time of his late teens. He gave his first New Thought talk in London’s Mortimer Hall in 1928. Immigrating to America in 1932, Fox succeeded James Murray as the minister of New York’s Divine Science Church of the Healing Christ.

Fox became immensely popular and addressed large church audiences throughout the Depression, holding weekly services for up to 5,500 people at the New York Hippodrome until 1938 and afterward at Carnegie Hall.

Fox’s works include The Sermon on the Mount: The Key to Success in Life (1934,) Find and Use Your Inner Power (1937,) Make Your Life Worthwhile (1942,) and Stake Your Claim: Exploring the Gold Mine Within (1952.)

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A small spark can start a great fire.
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
Topics: The Present, Living

Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting.
Emmet Fox
Topics: Criticism, Critics

There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer; no disease that enough love will not heal; no door that enough love will not open; no gulf that enough love will not bridge; no wall that enough love will not throw down; no sin that enough love will not redeem.
Emmet Fox
Topics: Love

Just as there is more than one road up every great mountain, and yet all roads meet at the top, so in the Spiritual Quest there are several roads, all of which lead in due season to the One Great End.
Emmet Fox

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.
Emmet Fox
Topics: Love

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.
Emmet Fox
Topics: Love

It is the Law that any difficulties that can come to you at any time, no matter what they are, 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
Topics: Difficulty

Holding on to anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.
Emmet Fox

Bless a thing and it will bless you. Curse it and it will curse you… If you bless a situation, it has no power to hurt you, and even if it is troublesome for a time, it will gradually fade out, if you sincerely bless it.
Emmet Fox
Topics: Difficulty, Attitude

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