Neville Goddard · His words, 1939 to 1972

Neville Goddard Quotes, Each One Traced to Its Source

These 108 lines were pulled by script from 320 of Neville’s books, lessons and talks, then matched character by character against the text each one came from. Every line carries its title and date, plus a link so you can read it in place. A shorter list near the bottom holds popular lines we could not find, with the closest wording he actually used.

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108 quotes

“You can only magnify that which you are conscious of being.”
Your Faith Is Your Fortune1941I AM
“Your dreams take form as you assume the feeling of their reality.”
Feeling Is the Secret1944Assumption
“All changes of expression are brought about through a change of feeling.”
Feeling Is the Secret1944Feeling
“Feeling the reality of the state sought and living and acting on that conviction is the way of all seeming miracles.”
Feeling Is the Secret1944Feeling
“Sleep is the door through which the conscious, waking mind passes to be creatively joined to the subconscious.”
Feeling Is the Secret1944Sleep
“Sleep is the door into heaven.”
Feeling Is the Secret1944Sleep
“Never sleep in the consciousness of failure.”
Feeling Is the Secret1944Sleep
“In sleep, man impresses the subconscious with his conception of himself.”
Feeling Is the Secret1944Sleep
“Your mood prior to sleep defines your state of consciousness”
Feeling Is the Secret1944Sleep
“Feel yourself in the state of the realized wish and quietly drop off to sleep.”
Feeling Is the Secret1944Sleep
“You never attract that which you want, but always attract that which you are conscious of being.”
Feeling Is the Secret1944I AM
“Imagination and faith are the only faculties of mind needed to create objective conditions.”
Prayer: The Art of Believing1945Imagination
“You must know what you want before you can feel that you have it, and prayer is the feeling of fulfilled desire.”
Prayer: The Art of Believing1945Feeling
“To an assumption, all means which promote its realization are good.”
1948 Lesson 51948Assumption
“Assume the feeling of your wish fulfilled and your dimensionally greater self will determine the means.”
1948 Lessons Q&A1948Assumption
“Control your moods as you go to sleep.”
1948 Lesson 21948Sleep
“The cloud always ascends when man approaches the drowsiness of sleep.”
1948 Lesson 21948Sleep
“If you walk faithful to a high mood there will be no opposition and no competition.”
1948 Lesson 41948Persistence
“Your world is a grand mirror constantly telling you who you are.”
1948 Lesson 51948I AM
“The only thing that has fallen is your concept of self.”
1948 Lesson 41948I AM
“It was back in 1933 in the city of New York, and my old friend Abdullah, with whom I studied Hebrew for five years, was really the beginning of the eating of all my superstitions.”
1948 Lesson 31948Abdullah
“Abdullah taught me the importance of remaining faithful to an idea and not compromising.”
1948 Lesson 31948Abdullah
“He was not the kind of a person with whom you would argue, not Abdullah.”
1948 Lesson 31948Abdullah
“You are in Barbados, Neville.”
1948 Lesson 31948AbdullahAbdullah, as Neville reports him
“After you have proven this law you will become normal, Neville.”
1948 Lesson 31948AbdullahAbdullah, as Neville reports him
“Remain faithful to your assumption, so that you define yourself as that which you have assumed.”
Out of This World1949Persistence
“Determined imagination is the beginning of all successful operation.”
Radio Lectures1951Imagination
“Only imagination can restore the Eden from which experience has driven us out.”
Radio Lectures1951Imagination
“In the creation of a new life we must begin at the beginning, with a change of mood.”
Radio Lectures1951Feeling
“Feel yourself into the state of the answered prayer until the state fills the mind and crowds all other states out of your consciousness.”
Radio Lectures1951Feeling
“The mind in meditation is in a state of relaxation akin to the feeling attained just before dropping off to sleep.”
Radio Lectures1951Sleep
“We must persist until we succeed in imagining ourselves into the situation of the answered prayer.”
Radio Lectures1951Persistence
“You win by assumption what you can never win by force.”
The Power of Awareness1952Assumption
“Your assumptions, conscious or unconscious, direct all thought and action to their fulfillment.”
The Power of Awareness1952Assumption
“You, by your conscious assumptions, determine the nature of the world in which you live.”
The Power of Awareness1952Assumption
“The illusion of the free will to do is but ignorance of the law of assumption upon which all action is based.”
The Power of Awareness1952Assumption
“You will walk in the assumption of the wish fulfilled as on a foundation more solid even than earth.”
The Power of Awareness1952Assumption
“The future becomes the present when you imagine that you already are what you will be when your assumption is fulfilled.”
The Power of Awareness1952Assumption
“That to which you constantly return constitutes your truest self.”
The Power of Awareness1952Persistence
“It is the frequency, not the length of time, that makes it natural.”
The Power of Awareness1952Persistence
“Everything depends upon your concept of yourself.”
The Power of Awareness1952I AM
“The hope of glory is your awareness of the ability to rise perpetually to higher levels.”
The Power of Awareness1952I AM
“Righteousness is the awareness that you already possess it all.”
The Power of Awareness1952I AM
“Man is freed or constrained by reason of the state of mind in which he persists.”
Changing The Feeling Of "I"1953Persistence
“If I were called upon to name a man that I would consider my teacher, I would name Abdullah.”
Changing The Feeling Of "I"1953Abdullah
“Every revision is a victory over himself and therefore a victory over his enemy.”
Awakened Imagination1954Revision
“Forgiveness is the life of the imagination.”
Awakened Imagination1954Revision
“Not to forgive is to be at war with ourselves, for we are freed according to our capacity to forgive.”
Awakened Imagination1954Revision
“I firmly believe that if you will wisely and daily use the pruning shears of revision that you will find there is no objective beyond your ability to realize.”
The Pruning Shears Of Revision1954Revision
“It was in the fall of 1933 in New York City that I approached Abdullah with a problem.”
Awakened Imagination1954Abdullah
“Boldly assume that you are the one that you want to be.”
Four Mighty Ones1956Assumption
“Imagine that you are seeing what you want to see, and remain faithful to your vision.”
Seedtime and Harvest1956Persistence
“You dwell in an assumption that your senses deny.”
By Water And BloodJune 24, 1956Assumption
“God speaks to man through the language of dreams, but I do not have to go to sleep to dream.”
The Only ChristianityNovember 10, 1959Sleep
“Our future is our imaginal activity in its creative march.”
The Law and the Promise1961Imagination
“Imagining creates reality.”
The Law and the Promise1961Imagination
“To attempt to change circumstances before you change your imaginal activity, is to struggle against the very nature of things.”
The Law and the Promise1961Imagination
“Man imagining himself into a mood takes on himself the results of the mood.”
The Law and the Promise1961Feeling
“Man should daily relive the day as he wished he had lived it, revising the scenes to make them conform to his ideals.”
The Law and the Promise1961Revision
“Changing your life means changing the past.”
The Law and the Promise1961Revision
“The individual who is born from above will find David and know him to be his very own son.”
The Law and the Promise1961The Promise
“The New Testament tells us not how this promise was fulfilled but how it is fulfilled.”
The Law and the Promise1961The Promise
“Only God can forgive, and God is I AM.”
You Can Forgive SinMarch 29, 1963I AM
“You can, if the day is unpleasant, revise it.”
Where Are You From?December 13, 1963Revision
“My friend Abdullah who taught me this story, he was in it for forty years.”
One Greater Than JohnJanuary 9, 1964Abdullah
“And if you knew Abdullah as I knew him that was no invitation to come in.”
One Greater Than JohnJanuary 9, 1964Abdullah
“Revision is repentance and revision results in repeal.”
Christ In ManOctober 17, 1966Revision
“When you revise a memory that is fixed you have repealed it.”
Christ In ManOctober 17, 1966Revision
“Always use your imagination lovingly for yourself and others, for everyone in the world is yourself anyway, as there is nothing but self!”
Seeing Christ Through The Eyes Of PaulMarch 31, 1967Imagination
“Your world is forever bearing witness to what you are imagining.”
Prophetic SketchesSeptember 22, 1967Imagination
“You can pray for another by feeling they now have what they formerly wanted, for feeling is a movement.”
The Secret Of PrayerOctober 6, 1967Feeling
“Sleep as though you were now the man that you formerly desired to be, just as though it were true.”
The Secret of PrayingOctober 6, 1967Sleep
“My old friend, Abdullah, gave me this exercise.”
The Secret Of PrayerOctober 6, 1967Abdullah
“The promise you will have to take on faith.”
God Is LightOctober 9, 1967The Promise
“You will find the Father only when his only begotten son, David, calls you Father!”
All Things Are PossibleNovember 3, 1967The Promise
“You will become the man you assume you are, if you persist in the assumption that you are already there!”
Walk By FaithNovember 6, 1967Persistence
“Revision is the most practical thing in the world.”
The Bible is Addressed to the ImaginationNovember 6, 1967Revision
“If you hear something that is unlovely, don’t accept it, but instantly revise it.”
Building Your TempleNovember 20, 1967Revision
“Although your dream may seem impossible, invite it into your consciousness by feeling it is real.”
Live The Answer NowJanuary 15, 1968Feeling
“Imagination is the creative power which can cause that which was not, to be!”
Fourfold VisionJanuary 26, 1968Imagination
“You think you are fully awake right now, yet you are dreaming the dream of life.”
The Last DaysFebruary 8, 1968The Promise
“Being all imagination, your true name is I AM, and besides you there is no other God.”
Sons Of The Most HighApril 15, 1968I AM
“Faith is loyalty to the unseen reality!”
Creation-FaithMay 20, 1968Persistence
“If you do not harvest God’s promise it is only because you do not believe!”
Creation-FaithMay 20, 1968The Promise
“The world is all that you have imagined it to be, even though you cannot remember when or how you brought it into being.”
There Is No FictionJune 7, 1968Imagination
“Persist in your assumption and in a way that no one knows, it will become true for you!”
Signs From AboveJune 24, 1968Persistence
“Wherever I assume that I am, I am there.”
FaithJuly 22, 1968I AM
“I do not imagine lightly anymore, because I now know every imaginal act will come to pass.”
Eternal StatesSeptember 9, 1968Imagination
“Fall asleep in that assumption, as that is your act of faith.”
Eternal StatesSeptember 9, 1968Sleep
“Regardless of things to the contrary, persist until your dream is completely realized.”
Be Imitators Of GodOctober 21, 1968Persistence
“In my experience, the dove smothered me with love.”
The Mystery Of BaptismJanuary 31, 1969The Promise
“One hundred and thirty-nine days after I awoke and rose from my tomb, God’s only begotten son, David, revealed me as his father.”
God Became ManFebruary 24, 1969The Promise
“Learn to use the law, because there is a long interval between the law and the promise.”
The Perfect ImageApril 11, 1969The Promise
“The four mighty acts which form that redemption begin with your awakening within yourself and end with the descent of the dove.”
You Are A Cosmic BeingMay 2, 1969The Promise
“Dare to believe in the reality of your assumption and watch the world play its part relative to its fulfillment.”
Spiritual SensationMay 16, 1969Assumption
“The world will not immediately reflect your feeling”
Feel DeeplyMay 30, 1969Feeling
“Simply catch the feeling that you have it and sustain that feeling.”
The First PrincipleJune 9, 1969Feeling
“An assumption, though false, if persisted in will harden into fact.”
All That Is DivineJune 16, 1969PersistenceNeville credits this line to Sir Anthony Eden in The Law and the Promise, 1961.
“Everything in this world invites you to wander away from the I AM.”
All That Is DivineJune 16, 1969I AM
“We are born the second time from the skull of man.”
Pre-ExistenceJuly 16, 1969The Promise
“Knowing what you want, assume the feeling that would be yours if you had it.”
Believe It InOctober 6, 1969Feeling
“One night as you sleep, something will arouse you and you will awaken to find yourself in your skull.”
I Am The CauseOctober 19, 1969The Promise
“Ask yourself how you would feel if it were true, for feeling creates life.”
The Awakening Of FaithNovember 28, 1969Feeling
“Man can revise the past, and change it as though it never happened.”
If You Can Really BelieveJune 15, 1970Revision
“I am always thinking from where I am, and of where I am not.”
Gifts Bestowed By GodJune 4, 1971I AM
“You know, Neville, when you return from Barbados, you will have died!”
Gifts Bestowed By GodJune 4, 1971AbdullahAbdullah, as Neville reports him
“He understood the Law, not the Promise.”
Gifts Bestowed By GodJune 4, 1971Abdullah
“Imagination plus faith is the stuff out of which we make the world.”
Secret Of ImaginationJune 21, 1971Imagination

Neville Goddard Quotes, each one traced · The 369 Rabbit Hole

Said to be Neville

Lines going around under his name

We took 150 distinct lines from three popular pages, the QuoteStats top 91, the Kidadl list and the first page of his Goodreads quotes, and ran each one through the same check. Roughly four in five matched his text word for word. About one in eight had a word changed or a sentence trimmed. Seven lines came up empty in the 320 texts and in the merged archive of his talks, and the table holds those along with the slips most worth correcting.

The line going around	The closest real wording	What we found
Everyone is you pushed out.Seen on YouTube lecture titles	“Everyone is yourself pushed out, so when you imagine, you are influencing yourself!”What Are You Doing?, October 30, 1967	One word off. The popular form swaps yourself for you, and the second half of his sentence usually falls away.
Each person is born with an infinite power, against which no earthly force is of the slightest significance.Seen on QuoteStats, Kidadl, Quotlr	“Most men are not aware of the existence of the infinite power within themselves as the prophet.”Your Faith Is Your Fortune, 1941	The phrase infinite power is his. The sentence is in none of the texts, and we could not trace who wrote it.
You believe in God? Believe also in your imagination.Seen on QuoteStats, Kidadl	“Let not your heart be troubled; ye believe in God, believe also in me.”Your Faith Is Your Fortune, 1941	He quotes John 14 this way many times. The version ending in imagination is a paraphrase of how he read that verse.
Your opinion of yourself is your most important viewpoint.Seen on QuoteStats, Kidadl	“your opinion of yourself will determine your expression in life.”At Your Command, 1939	The sites print it with a true second line, You are infinitely greater than you think you are, from a 1969 talk. The first line is the one we cannot find.
Believe that you are what you want to be.Seen on QuoteStats, Kidadl	“Assume you are what you want to be.”1948 Lessons Q&A, 1948	The verb moved. Assume is the word he uses here, and the sites have changed it to believe.
Faith is being loyal to you unseen reality withinSeen on QuoteStats	“Faith is loyalty to the unseen reality!”Creation-Faith, May 20, 1968	Printed with the typo intact. The real line is shorter and better.
Have faith in your imagined act.Seen on Kidadl	“Go all out and believe in what you have imagined.”What Are You Doing?, October 30, 1967	Close in spirit. That exact wording is in none of the texts.
Man’s responsibility, then, is to choose his destination; the motive power to bring him there is furnished by the Infinite.Seen on QuoteStats	“Always bear in mind that the responsibility to make it so is completely removed from your shoulders.”1948 Lessons Q&A, 1948	Neither motive power nor choose his destination occurs anywhere in the corpus or the archive.
Most people who desire to change their life make the mistake of not imagining deeply or long enough, they let the 3D world and what they see dictate their reality instead of their imagination.Seen on Kidadl	“To attempt to change circumstances before you change your imaginal activity, is to struggle against the very nature of things.”The Law and the Promise, 1961	Three-dimensional world is his phrase. 3D world is in none of the texts.

Not found means missing from what we searched. Many of his talks were never transcribed, so a recording could still turn one of these up.

The line he gave away

His most famous sentence came with a credit

Open any list of Neville quotes and the one about false assumptions will be near the top. He has it in the 1948 lessons in a slightly different form, “An assumption, though false, if sustained will harden into fact.” By 1961 he names a source. In The Law and the Promise he writes that “we must agree with Anthony Eden,” and in a talk of May 19, 1969 he says “Sir Anthony Eden was right when he said” and gives the line again. A note in one 1969 transcript places it at the Guild Hall while Eden was Prime Minister.

We searched for those words in reports of Eden’s Guildhall speech of November 1955 and could not confirm them, so that step stays unverified. What the record does show is narrower and still useful: Neville repeated the line for more than twenty years, and he did not claim to have made it up.

Method

How a line gets onto this page

Mining.
A script reads all 320 texts behind the Neville hub, 1.57 million words, and keeps sentences short enough to quote and free of scanner damage.
Sorting.
We read what came out and picked twelve lines for each of the nine topics, leaning on plain statements of the teaching over sermon passages.
Matching.
The script looks for each line as an exact string inside the text named beside it. Line breaks are the only thing it ignores. One mismatch stops the build, and none of these 108 failed.
Second copy.
102 of the 108 also appear in a separate scan of his collected talks on archive.org. We read the other six by hand.

The talks are transcripts made by other people from tape, and some were later edited. Word for word here means word for word against the text we hold, which may differ from what he said in the room. Lines marked as Abdullah’s are Neville’s report of him, and what is known of the man has its own page.

Questions

Quoting Neville correctly

Which line does Neville repeat the most?

By count across the 320 texts, “imagining creates reality” turns up 90 times and “feeling of the wish fulfilled” 83 times, with another 25 for “feeling of your wish fulfilled.” Those two ideas carry most of his teaching, so a search here for either one is a good place to start.

Did Neville really say everyone is you pushed out?

Almost. His own words in a talk of October 30, 1967 are “Everyone is yourself pushed out, so when you imagine, you are influencing yourself!” The shorter form with the word you is a modern trim of that line.

Is the line about an assumption hardening into fact his own?

He made it famous, yet in The Law and the Promise he credits it to Anthony Eden, and he names Eden again in talks of 1968 and 1969. We could not confirm the line in reports of Eden’s speeches, so treat that step as unverified.

How should I cite a quote from this page?

Press Copy on any line. You get the words, the title, the date and the link to the text. Books carry the year of publication. Talks carry the date on the transcript.

Why do you say a line was not found instead of saying he never said it?

He spoke for more than thirty years and many talks were never recorded. All we can report is that a line is missing from the 320 texts and the wider archive we searched. Anyone with a recording or a page number can prove us wrong, and we would fix the entry.

Sources

Where the words came from

Neville’s words stay his. Every line above links to the text it came from, and these are the collections behind those links.

Transcribed talks and the 1948 lessons: the realneville.com archive.
The ten books, scanned: archive.org workbooks and a second archive.org set.
Second copy for checking: merged Neville document on archive.org.
Pages tested on November 6, 2026: QuoteStats, Kidadl and Goodreads.

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