Thomas Troward Quotes

“My mind is a center of Divine operation. The Divine operation is always for expansion and fuller expression, and this means the production of something beyond what has gone before, something entirely new, not included in the past experience, though proceeding out of it by an orderly sequence of growth. Therefore, since the Divine cannot change its inherent nature, it must operate in the same manner with me; consequently, in my own special world, of which I am the center, it will move forward to produce new conditions, always in advance of any that have gone before.”

— Thomas Troward

“Belief in limitation is the one and only thing that causes limitation.”

— Thomas Troward

“We cannot really think in one way and act in another ...”

— Thomas Troward

“Our repeated failure to fully act as we would wish must not discourage us. It is the sincere intention that is the essential thing, and this will in time release us from the bondage of habits which at present seem almost insuperable.”

— Thomas Troward

“We can gradually grow into any condition we desire, provided we first make ourselves in habitual mental attitude the person who corresponds to those conditions.”

— Thomas Troward

The action of Mind (thought) plants that nucleus which, if allowed to grow undisturbed, will eventually attract to itself all the conditions necessary for its manifestation in outward visible form.

— Thomas Troward

Having seen and felt the end, you have willed the means to the realization of the end.

— Thomas Troward

God will provide the food, but he will not cook the dinner.

— Thomas Troward

“Any anxious thought as to the means to be employed in the accomplishment of our purposes is quite unnecessary. If the end is already secured, then it follows that all the steps leading to it are secured also.”

— Thomas Troward

“The secret to enjoying life is to take an interest in it.”

— Thomas Troward

The law of floatation was not discovered by contemplating the sinking of things.

— Thomas Troward

“Creative power is that receptive attitude of expectancy which makes a mold into which the plastic yet undifferentiated substance can flow and take the desired form.”

— Thomas Troward

“Success depends on our using, and not opposing ...”

— Thomas Troward

“The subjective mind is entirely under the control of the objective mind. With the utmost fidelity it reproduces and works out to its final consequences whatever the objective mind impresses upon it.”

— Thomas Troward

Desire will in due time externalize itself as concrete fact.

— Thomas Troward

“It is an enduring truth, which can never be altered, that every infraction of the Law of nature must carry its punitive consequences with it. We can never get beyond that range of cause and effect.”

— Thomas Troward