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Life & Wisdom Quote by Marianne Williamson

"As we become purer channels for God's light, we develop an appetite for the sweetness that is possible in this world. A miracle worker is not geared toward fighting the world that is, but toward creating the world that could be"

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Williamson’s genius here is the way she smuggles a political temperament into devotional language. “Purer channels for God’s light” sounds like private spirituality, but it’s really a prescription for posture: stop treating the self as a clogged pipe of fear, grievance, and cynicism, and start acting as if you’re meant to transmit something cleaner. The payoff is deliberately sensory. She doesn’t promise virtue or salvation; she promises an “appetite” for “sweetness” - desire, taste, pleasure. Spiritual growth, in her framing, isn’t a hair shirt. It’s a reorientation of craving away from drama and toward possibility.

The phrase “miracle worker” is the clever pivot. A miracle isn’t just an anomaly; it’s a refusal to accept the given as final. That’s why she draws a hard line between “fighting the world that is” and “creating the world that could be.” On the surface it’s anti-combat, but the subtext is tactical: outrage can become an identity that keeps you emotionally busy while leaving reality intact. She’s wary of activism-as-resentment, the kind that feeds on enemies and ends up mirroring them.

Context matters. Williamson’s work rises out of late-20th-century New Age spirituality and its self-help-adjacent optimism, later colliding with American politics where “love” talk gets dismissed as soft. This quote anticipates that critique by making love operational: not a mood, but a method for imagination, endurance, and constructive action. It dares you to believe that hope is not naive - it’s a discipline.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Williamson, Marianne. (2026, January 18). As we become purer channels for God's light, we develop an appetite for the sweetness that is possible in this world. A miracle worker is not geared toward fighting the world that is, but toward creating the world that could be. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/as-we-become-purer-channels-for-gods-light-we-712/

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Williamson, Marianne. "As we become purer channels for God's light, we develop an appetite for the sweetness that is possible in this world. A miracle worker is not geared toward fighting the world that is, but toward creating the world that could be." FixQuotes. January 18, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/as-we-become-purer-channels-for-gods-light-we-712/.

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"As we become purer channels for God's light, we develop an appetite for the sweetness that is possible in this world. A miracle worker is not geared toward fighting the world that is, but toward creating the world that could be." FixQuotes, 18 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/as-we-become-purer-channels-for-gods-light-we-712/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.

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Marianne Williamson (born July 8, 1952) is a Author from USA.

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