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Neville Goddard on faith

For Neville, faith was not belief in something outside you. He defined it as loyalty to an unseen reality and as living in the feeling of the thing desired.

Each quote is verbatim from his books or the restored lecture transcripts. A lecture link plays only the quoted words.

“Faith does not give reality to the unseen things. Faith is loyalty to unseen reality.”

Faith Is Loyalty to Unseen Reality lecture, at 39:00 Play 9 s

“Faith is feeling or living in the consciousness of being the thing desired.”

Freedom for All 1942, ch. 9, Faith

“Faith is a facility for experience.”

Spiritually Known lecture, at 7:24 Play 3 s

“So blessed indeed is the man that trusteth in himself, for man’s faith in God will ever be measured by his confidence in himself.”

At Your Command 1939, ch. 4, Chapter 3

“What a man really believes is just as though he knows it. It's tantamount to knowing.”

Our Real Belief lecture, at 0:55 Play 8 s

“there's nothing more creative in man than to believe something into existence.”

The Potter's House lecture, at 21:11 Play 6 s

“The grain of mustard seed is not the measure of a small amount of faith.”

Freedom for All 1942, ch. 9, Faith

“It is faith which enables you to become conscious of being the thing desired.”

Freedom for All 1942, ch. 9, Faith

“Imagination and faith are the only faculties of the mind needed to create objective conditions.”

Prayer: The Art of Believing 1945, ch. 3, Imagination and Faith

“The essence of prayer is faith, but faith must be permeated with understanding to be given that active quality which it does not possess when standing alone.”

Prayer: The Art of Believing 1945, ch. 1, Law of Reversibility

“Have faith in this unseen claim until the conviction is born within you that it is so.”

At Your Command 1939, ch. 5, Chapter 4

“I firmly believe that imagination creates reality.”

Is Causation Imaginal? lecture, at 0:11 Play 4 s

“Is it not true that the teachings of the Gospels can only be received in terms of faith and that the Son of God is constantly looking for signs of faith in people – that is, faith in their own imagination?”

Awakened Imagination 1954, ch. 1, Who Is Your Imagination?

“Then I discover that faith is nothing more than the subjective appropriation of my objective hope.”

Andrew: 2nd Quality Disciple: Courage lecture, at 32:06 Play 6 s

“By faith, God (your consciousness) calleth things that are not seen as though they were and makes them seen.”

Freedom for All 1942, ch. 9, Faith

“A grain of mustard seed is truly the measure of faith necessary to accomplish your every objective; but like the mustard seed you too must lose yourself in the consciousness of being only the thing desired.”

Freedom for All 1942, ch. 9, Faith

“But without faith it is impossible to realize anything.”

At Your Command 1939, ch. 5, Chapter 4

“You have already accepted the gift which was but a desire before you rose in consciousness, and your faith is now the substance that shall clothe your desire.”

At Your Command 1939, ch. 4, Chapter 3

“But not every one has that courage and that faith in the imaginal act.”

Our Real Belief lecture, at 9:10 Play 4 s

“Faith is the sense of feeling by which Isaac blessed and made real his son Jacob.”

Freedom for All 1942, ch. 9, Faith

Lectures on faith

Faith: every restored lecture on the topic, with word-synced transcripts.

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