Ernest Holmes Quotations

Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.

God gives some more than others because some accept more than others.

But even in the Christian religion, much of its real meaning is hidden by words that are misleading and symbols that but few understand.

The road to freedom lies not through mysteries or occult performances, but through the intelligent use of natural forces and laws.

Prayer is a thought, a belief, a feeling, arising within the mind of the one praying.

The universe must exist for the self-expression of God and the delight of God.

When prayer removes distrust and doubt and enters the field of mental certainty, it becomes faith; and the universe is built on faith.

We can no more do without spirituality than we can do without food, shelter, or clothing.

To believe in a just law of cause and effect, carrying with it a punishment or a reward, is to believe in righteousness.

In principle the great religions of the world do not differ as much as they appear to.

There was a time when a man was so convinced that the world was round that he was determined to prove it.

Teach and practice, practice and teach - that is all we have; that is all we are good for; that is all we ever ought to do.

Borrowing knowledge of reality from all sources, taking the best from every study, Science of Mind brings together the highest enlightenment of the ages.

The universal Mind contains all knowledge. It is the potential ultimate of all things. To it, all things are possible.

Each one of us is an outlet to God and an inlet to God.

The intellect is a cold thing and a merely intellectual idea will never stimulate thought in the same manner that a spiritual idea does.

I do not believe that God has imposed suffering upon anyone to punish them or to teach them a lesson.

Reading Emerson is like drinking water to me.

There is but one ultimate Power. This Power is to each one what he is to it.

No one can rob us of our own soul, and our spirit is already one with the eternal goodness.

We are not depending on a reed shaken by the wind, but on the Priniciple of Life Itself, for all that we have or ever shall need. It is not some Power, or a great Power, it is all power.

What you are looking for is what you are looking with.

There is One Infinite Mind, which of necessity includes all that is, whether it be the intelligence in man, the life in the animal, or the invisible Presence which is God.

Healing is the result of clear thinking.

That which distinguishes the new thought from the old is not a denial of this Divine Reality, but an affirmation of its immediate availability.

It is impossible for a man to conceal himself. In every act, word or gesture he stands revealed as he is, and not as he would have himself appear to be. From the Universe, nothing is or an be hidden.

The Apostle John said, " Beloved, now we are the sons of God." He didn't say by and by we are going to become sons of God. He said we are that now, today, this moment. " Now we are the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shallsee him as he is"

Healing is the discovery of the Divinity within.

We live in a spiritual Universe. God is in, through, around and for us.

Electricity was a reality in the universe when Moses led the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt. This is true of all natural laws; they have always existed but only when understood may they be used.

Know that nothing can hinder you but yourself. If you believe you can, you can.

We should daily feel a deeper union with Life, a greater sense of that Indwelling God - the God of the seen and of the unseen - within us.

Love is the victor in every case. Love breaks down the iron bars of thought, and sets the captive free.

Each one should realize there is nothing in (us) which denies that which (we) desire.

All limitations are self-imposed.

We are all thinking, willing, knowing,conscious centers of Life. We are surroundedby, immersed in, and there is flowing through us a creative something... call it what you will.

True teaching liberates the student from his teacher.

It is right that we should be successful, for otherwise Spirit is not expressed.

You are to have implicit confidence in your own ability, knowing that it is the nature of thought to externalize itself in your health and affairs, knowing that you are the thinker.

The greatest good that can come to anyone is forming within them an absolute certainty of themselves, and of their relationship to the Universe, forever removing the sense of heaven as being outside of them.

There is One Infinite Spirit and every time man says, "I am" he proclaims it.

There is one power in the Universe and we can all use it.

We are continuously living a new life, and when the old and the new do not fit nicely together, the old - no longer able to contain the new - should be discarded.

Joy has come to live with me. How can I be sad? I do so love Thy presence, which is joy within me.

Life is greater than you have ever known it.

With a penetrating vision you can dissipate the obstruction, remove the obstacle, dissolve the wrong condition.

The manifest universe is the body of God ... all people are incarnations of the One Spirit.

The highest God and the innermost God is one God.

Let the inner ear listen to the voice of truth that is always speaking.

Create or perish is the eternal mandate of nature. Be constructive or become frustrated is an equal demand. You cannot escape the conclusion that whatever this thing is which is seeking expression through everything, it can find satisfactory outlet only through constructive and life-giving creativeness.

With every pill we have prescribed for us we should also be given a creative prayer, a suggested way to correct our destructive patterns of thought.

The Science of Mind is intensely practical because it teaches us how to use the Mind Principle for definite purposes, such as helping those who are sick, impoverished, or unhappy.

All emerge from that One Whose Being is ever present and Whose Life, robed in numberless forms, is manifest throughout all creation. Creation is the logical result of the out-push of Life into self-expression.

We are to look for God in each other and love this God, forgetting all else...

One who has learned to love all people will find plenty of people who will return that love.

Since each soul is some part of the Whole, it is impossible that any soul can be lost.

True imagination is not fanciful daydreaming; it is fire from heaven.

Anyone can heal who believes that he can and will take the time to put that belief into motion.

ANYONE may become a revealer of Truth who lives in close contact with the indwelling God.

Whatever the mind holds to and firmly believes in, forms a new pattern of though within its creative mold, as whatever thought is held in the mind tends to take outward form in new creations.

Life is infinite energy coupled with limitless creative imagination. It is the invisible essence and substance of every visible form. Its nature is goodness, truth, wisdom and beauty, as well as energy and imagination. Our highest satisfaction comes from a sense of conscious union with this invisible Life. All human endeavor is an attempt to get back to first principles, to find such an inward wholeness that all sense of fear, doubt and uncertainty vanishes.

Change your thinking, change your life.

Any thought which tends to inspire, to comfort, and to give peace to the mind is good.

Love is the sole impulse for creation; and the man who does not have it as the greatest incentive in his life has never developed the real creative instinct. No one can swing out into the Universal without love, for the whole universe is based upon it.

If the philosophy of Christianity were lived, wars would cease, unhappiness would cease, economic problems would be solved, poverty would be wiped from the face of the earth, and man's inhumanity to man would be transmuted into a spirit of mutual helpfulness.

The one seeking to demonstrate the power of spiritual realization in everyday affairs should believe in Divine guidance... and that everything in life is controlled by love, harmony, and peace.

We are chemists in the laboratory of the Infinite. What, then shall we create?

Enthusiasm reaches out with joy, for there is nothing depressing about it; it reaches out in faith, for there is no fear in it; it reaches out with acceptance, for there is no doubt in it; it reaches out as a child for there is no uncertainty about it.

Mind exists as a Principle in the universe, just as electricity exists as a principle.

To the man who can perfectly practice inaction, all things are possible.

Have the will to be well, to be happy, and to live in joy.

I am a gift of joy that God gives to a wonderful world.

We are bound by nothing except belief.

Faith is a mental attitude that is so convinced of its own idea - which so completely accepts it - that any contradiction is unthinkable and impossible.

Within us is the unborn possibility of limitless experience. Ours is the privilege of giving birth to it!

We may stumble, but always there is that eternal voice, forever whispering within our ear, that thing which causes the eternal quest, that thing which forever sings and sings.

As our thought is opened and we behold the image of eternity within ourselves, we are changed by this image into a newness of life.

Let us waste no further time looking for the secret of success or the key to happiness. Already the door is open and whosoever will, may enter.

. . . everything in life responds to the song of the heart.

Where the mind goes energy flows.

It is done to you as you believe.

Today I do affirm that I am Divinely guided...There is that within which knows what to do and how to do it, and it compels me to act on what it knows.

The mind of man is continuously unfolding into a greater recognition of its real plan in the creative order of the Universe.

Blessing: Constructive thought directed toward anyone or condition. You bless a man when you recognize the divinity in him.

If you wish to know the truth about your business or your profession, know that it is an activity of good. It is an activity of your partnership with the infinite.

Through the art of affirmative prayer the limitless resources of the Spirit are at my command. The power of the Infinite is at my disposal.

A realization of the Presence of God is the most powerful healing agency known to the mind of man.

We must have a spiritual rebirth. We must be born out of the belief in externalities into the belief of inner realities, out of the belief that we are separated from God, into the belief that we are part of a Unitary Wholeness.

Everything necessary to the full and complete expression of the most boundless experience of joy is mine now.

It is necessary for us to understand that the only Active Principle is Spirit.

There is a Power in the universe greater than you are, and you can use it.

A state of expectancy is a great assetl; a state of uncertainty-one moment thinking "perhaps" and the next moment thinking "I don't know"-will never get desired results.

The whole thing resolves itself into our mental ability to control our thought. The man who can do this can have what he wants, can do what he wishes and becomes what he wills...

Nothing is too good to be true.

Begin to act from your dominion. Declare the truth by telling yourself that there is nothing to be afraid of, that you no longer entertain any images of fear.

Seek to make your work a prayer, your believing an act, your living an art. It is then that the object of your faith will be made visible to you. It is then that you shall 'kiss the lips of your desire.'

When we learn to trust the universe, we shall be happy, prosperous and well

You can attract only that which you mentally become and feel yourself to be in reality.

Believe as though you are, and you will be...

Life externalizes at the level of our thought.