The Game of Life and How to Play It Quotes

“Good-will produces a great aura of protection about the one who sent it, and “No weapon that is formed against him shall prosper“. In other words, love and good-will destroy the enemies within one’s self, therefore, one has no enemies on the external!
“There is peace on earth for him who sends good-will to man!”
― Florence Scovel Shinn, The Game of Life and How to Play It

“If one is willing to do a thing he is afraid to do, he does not have to.
It is the law of nonresistance, which is so little understood.
Some one has said that courage contains genius and magic. Face the situation fearlessly, and there is no situation to face; it falls away of its own weight.”
― Florence Scovel Shinn, The Game of Life and How to Play It

“Getting into the spiritual swing of things is no easy matter for the average person. The adverse thoughts of doubt and fear surge from the subconscious. They are the “army of the aliens” which must be put to flight. This explains why it is so often, “darkest before the dawn.”
A big demonstration is usually proceeded by torment and thoughts.
Having made a statement of high spiritual truth one changes, the old beliefs in the subconscious, and “error is exposed” to be put out.
This is the time when one must make his affirmations of truth repeatedly, and rejoice and give thanks that he has already received. “Before ye call I shall answer.” This means that “every good and perfect gift” is already man’s awaiting his recognition.
Man can only receive what he sees himself receiving.
The children of Israel were told that they could have all the land they could see. This is true of every man. He has only the land within his own mental vision. Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding into the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.”
― Florence Scovel Shinn, The Game of Life and How to Play It

“Man must prepare for the thing he has asked for, when there isn’t the slightest sign of it in sight.”
― Florence Scovel Shinn, The Game of Life and How to Play It

“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”
― Florence Scovel Shinn, The Game of Life and How to Play It: The Complete Original Edition

“The soul is the subconscious mind, and it must be "saved" from wrong thinking.”
― Florence Scovel Shinn, The Game of Life and How to Play It

“There is an old saying that man only dares use his words for three purposes, to "heal, bless or prosper.”
― Florence Scovel Shinn, The Game of Life and How to Play It

“works both ways, and a situation of lack may be changed to one of plenty. For example: A woman came to me one hot summer’s day for a “treatment” for prosperity. She was worn out, dejected and discouraged. She said she possessed just eight dollars in the world. I said, “Good, we’ll bless the eight dollars and multiply them as Jesus Christ multiplied the loaves and the fishes,” for He taught that every man had the power to bless and to multiply, to heal and to prosper. She said, “What shall I do next?” I replied, “Follow intuition. Have you a ‘hunch’ to do anything, or to go anywhere?” Intuition means, intuition, or to be taught from within. It is man’s unerring guide, and I”
― Florence Scovel Shinn, The Game of Life and How to Play It

“Divine Love now dissolves and dissipates every wrong condition in my mind, body and affairs. Divine Love is the most powerful chemical in the universe, and dissolves everything which is not of itself!”
― Florence Scovel Shinn, The Game of Life and How to Play It

“The superconscious mind is the God Mind within each man, and is the realm of perfect ideas. In it, is the " perfect pattern" spoken of by Plato, The Divine Design; for there is a Divine Design for each person. " There is a place that you are to fill and no one else can fill, something you are to do, which no one else can do.”
― Florence Scovel Shinn, The Game of Life and How to Play It

“She replied: “I have been living with a woman who lied worse than I did!” One is often cured of his faults by seeing them in others. Life is a mirror, and we find only ourselves reflected in our associates. Living in the past is a failure method and a violation of spiritual law.”
― Florence Scovel Shinn, The Game of Life and How to Play It

“Man is here to prove God and “to bear witness to the truth,” and he can only prove God by bringing plenty out of lack, and justice out of injustice.”
― Florence Scovel Shinn, The Game of Life and How to Play It: The Complete Original Edition

“Man should watch himself hourly to detect if his motive for action is fear or faith.”
― Florence Scovel Shinn, The Game of Life and How to Play It

“The superconscious mind is the God Mind within each man, and is the realm of perfect ideas. In it, is the “perfect pattern” spoken of by Plato, The Divine Design; for there is a Divine Design for each person. “There is a place that you are to fill and no one else can fill, something you are to do, which no one else can do.”
― Florence Scovel Shinn, The Game of Life and How to Play It

“By your words ye are justified and by your words ye are condemned.”
― Florence Scovel Shinn, The Game of Life and How to Play It

“Whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap.”
― Florence Scovel Shinn, The Game of Life and How to Play It

“Its joy is in the joy of giving. Love is God in manifestation, and the strongest magnetic force in the universe.”
― Florence Scovel Shinn, The Game of Life and How to Play It

“For the Hearing My ears are God's ears, I hear with the ears of spirit. I am nonresistant and am willing to be led. I hear glad tidings of great joy.”
― Florence Scovel Shinn, The Game of Life and How to Play It

“For Guidance I am divinely sensitive to my intuitive leads, and give instant obedience to Thy will.”
― Florence Scovel Shinn, The Game of Life and How to Play It

“For Health Divine Love floods my consciousness with health, and every cell in my body is filled with light.”
― Florence Scovel Shinn, The Game of Life and How to Play It

“For Right Conditions Only that which is true of God is true of me, for I and the Father are ONE.”
― Florence Scovel Shinn, The Game of Life and How to Play It

“For Right Conditions Every plan my Father in heaven has not planned, shall be dissolved and dissipated, and the Divine Idea now comes to pass.”
― Florence Scovel Shinn, The Game of Life and How to Play It

“Denials and Affirmations For Prosperity God is my unfailing supply, and large sums of money come to me quickly, under grace, in perfect ways.”
― Florence Scovel Shinn, The Game of Life and How to Play It

“Infinite Spirit, I give thanks that the one thousand dollars, which is mine by divine right, is now released, and reaches me under grace in a perfect way.”
― Florence Scovel Shinn, The Game of Life and How to Play It

“Infinite Spirit, open the way for the Divine Design of my life to manifest; let the genius within me now be released; let me see clearly the perfect plan.”
― Florence Scovel Shinn, The Game of Life and How to Play It

“Infinite Spirit, open the way for this woman's right position.”
― Florence Scovel Shinn, The Game of Life and How to Play It

“put this situation in the hands of Infinite Love and Wisdom; if this trip is the Divine plan, I bless it and not longer resist, but if it is not divinely planned, I give thanks that it is now dissolved and dissipated.”
― Florence Scovel Shinn, The Game of Life and How to Play It

“The inharmonious situation comes from some inharmony within man himself. When there is, in him, no emotional response to an inharmonious situation, it fades away forever, from his pathway.”
― Florence Scovel Shinn, The Game of Life and How to Play It

“Perhaps one’s fear is of disease or germs. Then one should be fearless and undisturbed in a germ-laden situation, and he would be immune. One can only contract germs while vibrating at the same rate as the germ, and fear drags men down to the level of the germ. Of”
― Florence Scovel Shinn, The Game of Life and How to Play It

“Christianity is founded upon the law of forgiveness - Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the Karmic law, and the Christ within each man is his Redeemer and Salvation from all inharmonious conditions.”
― Florence Scovel Shinn, The Game of Life and How to Play It