The Wonderful Power of Decision

By Dr. Joseph Murphy

The Wonderful Power of Decision in the Dr. Joseph Murphy Live! series is the only authorized edition in print.

Dr. Murphy wrote, taught, counseled, and lectured to thousands every Sunday as Minister-Director of the Church of Divine Science in Los Angeles. Over the years, Dr. Murphy has given lectures and radio talks to audiences all over the world. Millions of people tuned in his daily radio program and have read the over 30 books that he has written. His books have sold over 15 million copies. In his lectures he points out how real people have radically improved their lives by applying specific aspects of his concepts, and gives the listener guidelines on how they too can enrich their lives.

Never say, "I can't." Overcome that fear by substituting the following, "I can do all things through the power of my own subconscious mind.

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• Language: English
• Publisher: G&D Media
• Release date: Jan 1, 2021
• ISBN: 9781722526603

Dr. Joseph Murphy

Dr. Murphy wrote, taught, counseled, and lectured to thousands of people all over the world, as Minister-Director of the Church of Divine Science in Los Angeles. His lectures and sermons were attended by thousands of people every Sunday. Millions of people tuned in his daily radio program and have read the over 30 books that he has written. Dr. Joseph Murphy has been acclaimed as a major figure in the human potential movement, the spiritual heir to writers like James Allen, Dale Carnegie, Napoleon Hill, and Norman Vincent Peale and a precursor and inspirer of contemporary motivational writers and speakers like Tony Robbins, Zig Ziglar and Earl Nightingale. He was one of the best selling authors in the mid-twentieth century. His book THE POWER OF YOUR SUBCONSCIOUS MIND has sold millions of copies and has been translated into seventeen languages. This book has never been out of print and is still one of the best sellers in the self-help genre. Over the years Dr. Murphy has given lectures and radio talks to audiences all over the world. In his lectures he points out how real people have radically improved their lives by applying specific aspects of his concepts, and gives the listener guidelines on how they too can enrich their lives.

Book preview

All successful men and women possess one outstanding characteristic, and that is their ability to make prompt decisions, and to persist in carrying those decisions through to completion. A distinguished industrialist once told me that in his fifty years experience in dealing with men and women in the commercial industrial fields, he found that all those who failed had one characteristic in common. It was that they hesitated to make decisions. They vacillated and wavered. Furthermore, when they did make decisions, they were not persistent in adhering to those decisions.

The power to decide and to choose is the foremost quality and the highest prerogative of man. Man’s capacity to choose and to initiate what is chosen reveals his power to create as a son of the infinite.

I had a letter from a young man dramatizing the power of decision. He came to a clear-cut decision in his mind, knowing that an Almighty power would back it up. He wanted a Volkswagen automobile, knowing that as he decreed it with feeling, his deeper mind would respond in ways he knew not of. This is what he said:

"I came to a decision to purchase a car. I did not have the required amount of money. I decided to trust my deeper mind, and I dismissed the problem from my mind knowing my subconscious had the answer. On April 8, a Friday night, a friend asked me if I would go to a teenagers’ fair, and I decided to go. A car was being given away that night, and I had a chance of 35,000 to 1 to win. My name was selected, and I won the dream car in my mind, a Volkswagen. I know the reason I got the car was my trust in faith and my deeper mind to solve the problem of a car, for a car is an idea.

As I continued to use the truths of the infinite, my life is now in complete harmony. I would like to thank you for opening my eyes to this supreme power. Seeing you each Sunday gives me what I need to go through the week. Your thoughts and words are giving me and my family a better life.

A young woman once told me that she felt lonesome, baffled and frustrated because she couldn’t decide whether or not she should marry. Can you imagine that? Her mother was very domineering and objected to every young man in whom she was interested. This young woman had lost all initiative and power of decision, with resultant loneliness, frustration, misery, and thralldom. In other words, she put herself in the house of bondage.

At my suggestion, she began to make one decision after another, whereas previously her mother had made all decisions for her. She decided to get an apartment for herself, purchase her own clothes, buy her own shoes, and she decided to furnish the apartment the way she wanted it. She came to a decision to paint the apartment in the way she wanted as well, without asking anybody. She decided to take up dancing, swimming, and golf. She got into the habit of making all decisions for herself.

She finally decided to marry a wonderful man without consulting her mother or anybody else, but just following the dictates of her own heart. She discovered that it’s never too late to start making decisions and to live your own life in a wonderful way.

Remember, it is never too late to bring order to