Ernest Shurtleff Holmes was an American New Thought writer, teacher, and leader. He was the founder of a Spiritual movement known as Religious Science, part of the greater New Thought movement, whose spiritual philosophy is known as “The Science of Mind.” Inspirational Ernest Holmes quotes will make you look at life differently and help you live a meaningful life.
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Most Famous Ernest Holmes Quotes
Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it. Ernest Holmes
I live in the faith that there is a Presence and Power greater than I am that nurtures and supports me in ways I could not even imagine. I know that this Presence is All knowing and All Power and is Always right where I am. Ernest Holmes
God gives some more than others because some accept more than others. Ernest Holmes
Never limit your view of life by any past experience. Ernest Holmes
I do not believe that God has imposed suffering upon anyone to punish them or to teach them a lesson. Ernest Holmes
True imagination is not fanciful daydreaming; it is fire from heaven. Ernest Holmes
Each one of us is an outlet to God and an inlet to God. Ernest Holmes
Prepare your mind to recieve the best that life has to offer. Ernest Holmes
There was a time when a man was so convinced that the world was round that he was determined to prove it. Ernest Holmes
Life is not just something to be endured. It is to be lived in joy, in a fullness without limit. Ernest Holmes
Prayer is a thought, a belief, a feeling, arising within the mind of the one praying. Ernest Holmes
Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it. Ernest Holmes
The universe must exist for the self expression of God and the delight of God. Ernest Holmes
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. Ernest Holmes
Borrowing knowledge of reality from all sources, taking the best from every study, Science of Mind brings together the highest enlightenment of the ages. Ernest Holmes
There is one power in the Universe and we can all use it. Ernest Holmes
To believe in a just law of cause and effect, carrying with it a punishment or a reward, is to believe in righteousness. Ernest Holmes
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. Ernest Holmes
The universal Mind contains all knowledge. It is the potential ultimate of all things. To it, all things are possible. Ernest Holmes
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. Ernest Holmes
The road to freedom lies not through mysteries or occult performances, but through the intelligent use of natural forces and laws. Ernest Holmes
Does this thing I wish to do express more life, more happiness, more peace to myself, and at the same time harm no one? If it does, it is right. It is not selfish. Ernest Holmes
When prayer removes distrust and doubt and enters the field of mental certainty, it becomes faith; and the universe is built on faith. Ernest Holmes
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. Ernest Holmes
We can no more do without spirituality than we can do without food, shelter, or clothing. Ernest Holmes
The more power one gives to his thought the more completely he believes that his thought has power the more power will it have. Ernest Holmes
But even in the Christian religion, much of its real meaning is hidden by words that are misleading and symbols that but few understand. Ernest Holmes
Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it. Ernest Holmes
In principle the great religions of the world do not differ as much as they appear to. Ernest Holmes
I believe that Love is at the center of everything; therefore, I accept Love as the healing power of life. I permit Love to reach out from me to every person I meet. I believe that Love is returned to me from every person I meet. I trust the guidance of Love because I believe it is the power of Good in the universe. I feel that Love is flowing through me to heal every situation I meet, to help every person I contact. Love opens the way before me and makes it perfect, straight, and glad. Love forgives everything unlike itself; it purifies everything. Love converts everything that seems commonplace into that which is wonderful. Love converts weakness into strength, fear into faith. Love. Ernest Holmes
The intellect is a cold thing and a merely intellectual idea will never stimulate thought in the same manner that a spiritual idea does. Ernest Holmes
As he learns the Truth, the Truth will automatically free him. Ernest Holmes
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. Ernest Holmes
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. Ernest Holmes
Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it. Ernest Holmes
The road to freedom lies, not through mysteries or occult performances, but through the intelligent use of Nature’s forces and laws. The Law of Mind is a natural law in the spiritual world. Ernest Holmes
When you want to do a big thing, get the mental pattern, make it perfect, know just what it means, enlarge your thought, keep it to yourself, pass it over to the creative power behind all things, wait and listen, and when the impression comes, follow it with assurance. Don’t talk to anyone about it. Never listen to negative talk or pay attention to it and you will succeed where all others fail. Ernest Holmes
Trust in your own self more than in all else. Ernest Holmes
It should be considered right to live and enjoy living. To be well, happy, and to express freedom, is to be in accord with Divine Law and Wisdom. Ernest Holmes
The universal Mind contains all knowledge. It is the potential ultimate of all things. To it, all things are possible. Ernest Holmes
If one sees only unloveliness in others, it is because unloveliness is a strong element in himself. The light he throws on others is generated in his own soul and sees them as he chooses to see them. Ernest Holmes
Practically the whole human race is hypnotized because it thinks what somebody else told it to think. Ernest Holmes
We need to know with scientific certainty that there is a Consciousness and a Power in the Universe that responds to us definitely, directly, and dynamically. Each individual must arrive at a place in his own consciousness where this contact is so immediate and so dynamic that if every other living soul denied it, he would still know. Ernest Holmes
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. Ernest Holmes
As I go forth today and embark on the wonderful experience of living, I am on a journey of self discovery and also of the discovery of the self hidden in everyone and the Power in back of everything. Ernest Holmes
It is done to you as you believe. Ernest Holmes
Jesus was not the great exception; he was the great example. Ernest Holmes
Just what is meant by your word? It means your conscious intention, your conscious direction, your conscious faith and acceptance that, because of what you are doing, the Power of Spirit will flow through your word in the direction you give It. Ernest Holmes
There should not be any sense of hurry or worry about this, just a calm, peaceful sense of reality. Let the Law work though, and express Itself in, the experience. Ernest Holmes
Nature will not let us stay in any one place for too long. She will let us stay just long enough to gather the experience necessary to the unfolding and advancement of the soul. This is a wise provision, for should we stay there too long, we would become too set, too rigid, too inflexible. Nature demands change in order that we may advance. Ernest Holmes
What we need to do is to eliminate the negative and accentuate the positive. In doing this, we gradually acquire the habit of affirmative thinking. Ernest Holmes
Definitely I know that every negative condition of the past is cleared away from my consciousness. I no longer think about it, see it, or believe in it. Nor do I believe that it has any effect whatsoever in my experience. Yesterday is not, tomorrow is not, but today, bright with hope and filled with promise, is mine. Today I live. Ernest Holmes
Man, by thinking, can bring into his experience whatsoever he desires if he thinks correctly, and becomes a living embodiment of his thoughts. This is not done by holding thoughts but by knowing the Truth. Ernest Holmes
True imagination is not fanciful daydreaming; it is fire from heaven. Ernest Holmes
His eye is on the sparrow and I know He watches me. This is a blessed thought, for it means that we cannot wander from the presence of God, or depart from divine care. Always God watches over us and comforts us. Forever we sit in the house of the divine and we are ceaselessly cared for. The all seeing eye cannot overlook any one, and all are kept in sacred care. All are kept in divine care. Ernest Holmes
We can no more do without spirituality than we can do without food, shelter, or clothing. Ernest Holmes
It has been said that we can know God only in so far as we can become God. Ernest Holmes
Instead of dwelling on negative thoughts, cause your mind to dwell on peace and joy. Ernest Holmes
The principle of any science is invisible, theoretical, as is our idea of Spirit. No one has seen God; no one has seen Life; what we have seen is the manifestation of Life. No one has seen Intelligence; we experience it. No one has ever seen Causation; we can see what It does, we deal with Its effects. We do not see Beauty. The artist feels beauty and depicts it as best he can, and the result of his effort is what we call the beautiful. We do not see Life, we experience living. Causation is invisible. Ernest Holmes
There is one power in the Universe and we can all use it. Ernest Holmes
I know that in Love there can be no separation, for Love unites. Love sustains and protects Its own I. Ernest Holmes
Love rules through Law. Love is the Divine Givingness; Law is the Way. Love is spontaneous; Law is impersonal. Love points the way and Law makes the way possible. Ernest Holmes
As you discover your daily good, and believe in it, and think about it, expect it to continue. Ernest Holmes
There is no limit to the Law, but there appears to be a limit to man’s understanding of It. Ernest Holmes
The great spiritual geniuses, whether it was Moses, Buddha, Plato, Socrates, Jesus, or Emerson have taught man to look within himself to find God. Ernest Holmes
We will not refuse to help the helpless or lift up the fallen, but we will reuse to wallow in the mud because of our sympathies. Ernest Holmes
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. Ernest Holmes
All law must be subjective; the soil knows how to take a seed and make a plant from it; it does not know whether it is making a tomato or a potato It knows how to create without knowing what It creates. Ernest Holmes
Borrowing knowledge of reality from all sources, taking the best from every study, Science of Mind brings together the highest enlightenment of the ages. Ernest Holmes
Nature operates according to a law of logical sequence. Ernest Holmes
But even in the Christian religion, much of its real meaning is hidden by words that are misleading and symbols that but few understand. Ernest Holmes
Knowledge is of the intellect; wisdom and understanding are of the heart. Ernest Holmes
Let the inner ear listen to the voice of truth that is always speaking. Ernest Holmes
Seeing and recognizing no opposite to itself, it finds no need of denial, indeed, this thought need not enter the mind; if we are working with the Spirit we need not deny but state the affirmative attitude of mind, realizing that we are dealing with the only power that exists. Ernest Holmes
Change your thinking, change your life. Ernest Holmes
Today I know that the healing presence of Life is within me, forever restoring my mind and body. Ernest Holmes
With a penetrating vision you can dissipate the obstruction, remove the obstacle, dissolve the wrong condition. Ernest Holmes
Confronted with unhappiness, I will unmask it also by seeing through this false face to the true countenance of joy. Ernest Holmes
Like attracts like and we attract just what we are in mind. Ernest Holmes
That there is a God no sane person would deny; that there could be a God of vengeance and hate, having all the characteristics of a huge man in a terrible rage, no person can well believe and keep his sanity. Ernest Holmes
But we are born to be happy, to be abundantly supplied with every good thing, to have fun in living, to consciously unite with the Divine Power that is around us and within us, and to grow and expand forever. Ernest Holmes
We do not save that which was lost; we merely discover that which needs to be found. Ernest Holmes
In principle the great religions of the world do not differ as much as they appear to. Ernest Holmes
Always combine faith in the higher power with all that you do; feel that you are being especially looked after. Ernest Shurtleff Holmes
God is all there is God includes everything, all possibility and all action, for Spirit is the invisible essence and substance of all form. Ernest Holmes
There is nothing more real, tangible, or concrete conceivable than a spiritual idea. To be able to work the apparent miracle of spiritual mind treatment within our own imagination and thought, and know that it provides a fact in our life or in the life of someone else, is the beginning of that knowledge and that wisdom which shall show to each one of us that the Spirit within us is independent of time and space, of circumstance and condition; that It is not conditioned by anything whatsoever, that It is eternal, alive, awake, aware, free, immortal; that each one of us is a God though in the germ. Ernest Holmes
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. Ernest Holmes
We have within us, a power that is greater than anything we shall ever contact in the outer, a power that can overcome every obstacle in our life and set us safe, satisfied and at peace, healed and prosperous, in a new light, and in a new life. Ernest Holmes
