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Florence Scovel Shinn Love Affirmations: Her Exact Quotes and Decrees for Relationships
Her genuine love decrees from The Game of Life (1925) and Your Word Is Your Wand (1928), grouped by divine selection, union and inner baseline, with the...
Picture setting your phone on the coffee table and leaving it face-down all evening. You are not checking timestamps, counting the minutes since your last message, or re-reading old texts to analyse a shift in tone. You feel completely relaxed, because you know that what belongs to you is moving toward you and does not need to be chased.
That quiet, magnetic certainty is the foundation of Florence Scovel Shinn's teaching on love. Writing in the 1920s, she never taught people to beg or plead for affection. She taught them to speak a decree once, claim their happiness as settled fact, and then get out of their own way.
Quick Summary: The Three Groups Of Decrees
| Group | What It Settles | Use It When |
|---|---|---|
| Divine Selection | The right companion is chosen for you, not competed for. | You are chasing, comparing, or fixated on someone who treats you as an afterthought. |
| Union & Commitment | The relationship is joined and permanent, not provisional. | Things feel undefined, unstable, or endlessly on trial. |
| Inner Baseline | Your own state is orderly, loved, and unhurried. | Anxiety, unworthiness, or panic keeps leaking into the relationship. |
The Principle Of Divine Selection
When you try to force a specific dynamic with someone who keeps you guessing, love feels like an uphill negotiation. Shinn's answer to that was a phrase she used repeatedly across her books: divine selection.
Divine selection means you do not have to work out who is right for you, persuade them, or outperform anyone else for the position. You claim what is yours by right, and you let the arrangement of it be handled elsewhere. Her whole system rests on a small qualifier she attached to almost every decree she wrote: "under grace, in a perfect way." That clause is what separates her practice from wishful pressure. It concedes the timing and the method while holding the outcome absolutely.
In practice this changes what you do with your evenings. You stop auditing another person's behaviour for evidence and start holding a settled position about your own life.
Her decrees for divine selection
From Your Word Is Your Wand (1928) and The Game of Life and How to Play It (1925):
"Divine Love now dissolves and dissipates every wrong condition in my mind, body and affairs. Divine Love is the most powerful chemical in the universe, and dissolves everything which is not itself."
"The walls of separation tumble down, and I am united with that which is mine by Divine Right."
"As I am one with the Undivided One, I am one with my undivided health, my undivided wealth, my undivided love and my undivided perfect self-expression."
"Infinite Spirit, open the way for the right companionship, which is mine by Divine Right, to reach me now under grace in a perfect way."
Shinn was explicit that there is no competition on the spiritual plane. Nothing that is genuinely yours can be taken by someone who arrived first, was more available, or looked better on a given evening.
I walk through how this looks in daily practice in this short study:
Decrees For Union And Lasting Commitment
If your aim is a settled, committed relationship rather than an ambiguous one, these lines set that standard in your own mind first. You are not hoping for a commitment. You are speaking as though the matter is already decided.
"What God has joined together, no man can put asunder."
"I give thanks that all that is mine by Divine Right now reaches me in great avalanches of increase, under grace, in a perfect way."
"There is no competition on the spiritual plane. What is mine is given me under grace."
Notice what is missing from every one of these. There is no named person, no deadline, and no instruction to another human being about how they should behave. Shinn never wrote decrees that command someone else's will, and the practice loses its steadiness the moment you try.
Setting Your Internal Baseline
You cannot build a peaceful home on a shaking foundation. Shinn observed that when her clients felt anxious, unworthy, or rushed, their relationships mirrored that state precisely. These decrees settle the ground you are standing on:
"The Divine Design of my life now comes to pass. I fill the place that I am to fill and no one else can fill."
"I cast this burden on the Christ within, and I go free."
"I am now in perfect harmony with the Divine Plan of my life, and I see clearly the perfect way."
Her word for the unsettled state was resistance. Fear about a relationship, resentment about how it has gone, and the compulsion to check on it are all the same movement, and all of them bind you to the picture you are trying to change.
For the wider set of her decrees across prosperity, work and health, see the full archive of Florence Scovel Shinn affirmations, and her supply teaching in God Is My Supply.
How She Taught Clients To Use Them
Whether these lines do anything depends almost entirely on how you carry yourself after you say them. Shinn's instruction to her clients came down to three rules.
- Speak it like a settled decision. Say the words aloud, once or twice, with quiet conviction. You are not persuading the universe. You are making up your own mind.
- Take the relief. Once the words have left your mouth, treat the matter as handled. The point of a decree is that you get to spend the rest of the day calm and unbothered by it.
- Follow calm impulses only. If a genuine, quiet nudge arrives to take an action, take it. If the urge comes from panic or from a need to check up on someone, sit still and let it pass.
To pair these spoken decrees with imaginal work, read our guide to manifesting love and, for a named person, how to manifest a specific person.
Reading Her In The Original
Every decree above comes from her own books, both long out of copyright. The Game of Life and How to Play It can be read free in full at the Internet Archive, and it is worth an hour of your evening. Her chapters on non-resistance and on the law of forgiveness carry the love teaching more completely than any list can.
Bringing This Into A Daily Routine
Speaking a decree in the morning takes ten seconds. The real work happens in the quiet hours of the afternoon, when the old habit of overthinking tries to move back in.
Having a fixed place to write is what keeps that from happening. The Reality Manuscript Manifestation Journal gives you a clean daily layout to record your decrees, note where resistance showed up, and keep the practice from quietly stopping after the first week.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is divine selection?
Divine selection is Shinn's term for the companion who is yours by right, arranged without competition or persuasion. In practice it releases you from chasing people who leave you anxious or unseen, because you are no longer applying for a position. You are claiming one.
Can I use these decrees for a specific person?
You can hold the desire, but keep the wording as she wrote it, with "under grace, in a perfect way" attached. That clause leaves the method open rather than issuing instructions to another person's will, which is the part of her teaching most often dropped.
How often should I say these decrees?
Say one whenever you notice worry starting. Speak it calmly, give thanks that the matter is handled, and return to your day. Repetition driven by panic re-affirms the panic, so stopping while you feel settled matters more than any daily count.
From The Library
The companion folio is free to download and print: Printable Affirmations: 60 Statements Of Assumption.