Ernest Holmes Quotes

“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”

“It has been said that we can know God only in so far as we can become God.”

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

“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.”

“Never limit your view of life by any past experience.”

“Prepare your mind to recieve the best that life has to offer.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Confronted with unhappiness, I will unmask it also by seeing through this false face to the true countenance of joy.”

“God is pure Spirit, filling all space.”

“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”

“I know that in Love there can be no separation, for Love unites. Love sustains and protects Its own. I”

“In back of me is the potential of the Universe. I declare new horizons will open for me, new ideas will flow to me, and a better world of joy and peace will be revealed.”

“Knowledge is of the intellect; wisdom and understanding are of the heart.”

“Today I affirm the All-Good, and in this affirmation I accept the presence of love and repudiate every belief that hate has any power. I affirm peace and deny confusion. I affirm joy and declare that sadness has no place in my consciousness. I affirm that God is over all, in all, and through all. There is nothing in my past that can limit me or limit my future. There is One Life, that Life is God, that Life is the only life there is, and that Life is my life now.”

“Today I know that the healing presence of Life is within me, forever restoring my mind and body.”

“We do not save that which was lost; we merely discover that which needs to be found.”

“Whatever I should know, I will know. Whatever I should do, I will do. Whatever belongs to me, must come to me, and because of this Infinite Intelligence that is mine and that is within me now, I am compelled to recognize my Good, to see more, to understand and accept and express more.”

“Always combine faith in the higher power with all that you do; feel that you are being especially looked after.”

“Thoughts of failure, limitation or poverty are negative and must be counted out of our lives for all time. Somebody will say, "But what of the poor; what are you going to do with them; are they to be left without help?" No, a thousand times no. The same Power is in them that is in all men. They will always be poor
until they awake and realize what life is. All the charity on earth has never done away with poverty, and never will; if it could have done so it would have done so; it could not, therefore it has not. It will do a man a thousand times more.
good to show him how to succeed than it will to tell him he needs charity. We
need not listen to all the calamity howlers. Let them howl if it does them any
good. God has given us a Power and we must use it. We can do more toward
saving the world by proving this law than all that charity has ever given it.”

“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.”

“Life is not just something to be endured. It is to be lived in joy, in a fullness without limit (p.82)”

“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.”

“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.”

“The two should really go hand in hand; for one deals with causes and the other with effects. True philosophy and true science will some day meet on a common basis; and, working together, will give to the world a theology of reality. Then, indeed, will "God go forth anew into Creation."   A”

“Let us learn to be happy even in the midst of unhappiness, to laugh even in the midst of tears, to believe even in the midst of unbelief. The man who does this is the man whose foundation is certain; he is the man whose thought is firmly centered in the invisible Essence of Reality and finally comes to enjoy Its abundance of all good things.”

“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.”