Ernest Holmes Quotes

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

Peace comes from the absence of fear, from a consciousness of trust, from a deep, underlying faith in the absolute goodness and mercy, the final integrity of the universe in which we live, and of every cause to which we give our thought, our time and our attention. ~ Ernest Holmes

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

Love is at the Center of our being, and the calm, continuous pulsations of life are governed by Love. ~ Ernest Holmes

Everything in the Universe is for us. Nothing is against us. Life is ever giving of Itself. We must receive, utilize and extend the gift. Success and prosperity are spiritual attributes belonging to all people, but not necessarily used by all people." - Ernest Holmes in The Science of Mind ~ John Randolph Price

Nothing is too good to be true. ~ Ernest Holmes

You have discovered the spiritual universe. Many others have discovered this same world, but each must make the discovery for himself. You are going to have a lot of joy sailing around this world of yours. Don't fight the opinions of others, or waste your time arguing over these things. Follow the inward gleam of your consciousness and you will arrive. ~ Ernest Holmes

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

Anything that will enable us to express greater life, greater happiness, greater power
so long as it does not harm anyone
must be the Will of God for us. ~ Ernest Holmes

We are bound by nothing except belief. ~ Ernest Holmes

When we conceive a new idea we are thinking directly from the creativity of God. ~ Ernest Holmes

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. ~ Ernest Holmes

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

Heaven is within us, and we experience it to the degree that we become conscious of it. ~ Ernest Holmes

As he learns the Truth, the Truth will automatically free him. ~ Ernest Holmes

Man is just what he thinks himself to be ... He will attract to himself what the thinks most about. He can learn to govern his own destiny when he learns to control his thoughts. ~ 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

Our vision is beclouded and the pathway of our progress is obstructed until we come to know that god can and does express as Good in every person and every situation. ~ 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

The person who is to succeed will never let his mind dwell on past mistakes. He will forgive the past in his life and in the lives of other people. If he makes a mistake he will at once forgive it. ~ 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

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

My affairs are in the keeping of Infinite Wisdom. I am guided by Divine Intelligence. The activity of Spirit inspires my mind and flows through my actions. Life lies open to me, rich, full and abundant. ~ Ernest Holmes

Fear brings failure; faith brings success. It's just that simple. ~ Ernest Holmes

Thoughts of lack manifest as limitation. Thoughts of abundance manifest as success and happiness. Failure and success are but two ends of the same stick. ~ 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

You are an eternal being now on the pathway of endless unfoldment, never less but always more yourself. Life is not static. It is forever dynamic, forever creatingnot something done and finished, but something alive, awake and aware. There is something within you that sings the song of eternity. Listen to it. ~ Ernest Holmes

Healing is the discovery of the Divinity within. ~ Ernest Holmes

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

Jesus was not the great exception; he was the great example. ~ Ernest Holmes

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

The abundance you desire to experience must first be an experience in your mind. ~ Ernest Holmes

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. ~ Ernest Holmes

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. ~ Ernest Holmes

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

Surely there is a knowing behind it all. There is a teacher, an expresser, a creator, an artist perhaps, a poet certainly that has designed and presented all of the clues that we need to navigate life with some degree of grace, and perhaps with a greater degree of happiness than we now have. ~ Jeffrey R. Anderson

Love is within us. It cannot be destroyed. It can be ignored. To the extent that we abandon love we will feel it has abandoned us.
Denying love is our only problem, and embracing it is the only answer.
Through the power of love, we can let go of past history and begin again.
Love heals, forgives, and makes whole. ~ Ernest Holmes

You can be on the cusp of something. Appreciate the cusp, not the something. Appreciate this moment now. ~ 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

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

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

Gratitude is one of the chief graces of human existence and is crowned in heaven with a consciousness of unity. ~ Ernest Holmes

Hoever dewlls on beauty tends to become beautiful; there will be a grace and charm to expressing itself through that person which no one can fail to recognize and appreciate. ~ Ernest Holmes

It is done to you as you believe. ~ Ernest Holmes

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. ~ 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

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. ~ Ernest Holmes

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. ~ 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

Drop all negative thoughts from the mind. Do not dwell on adversity but think plenty into everything, for there is power in the word. Meditate on the things you are doing as being already done - complete and perfect. ~ Ernest Holmes

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

The mind is a magnet and we attract that with which we identify the self. In order to get the most out of life we must learn consciously to change many of our habitual thought patterns. This is not easy, for our old thought patterns cling to us with great tenacity, but, being thought patterns, they can be reversed. If you are filled with fear, refill yourself with faith, for faith always overcomes fear. ~ Ernest Holmes

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

Too often, our minds are so burdened because of the mistakes we have made that we do not take the time to forgive ourselves and others and start over again. ~ 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

Healing is the result of clear thinking. ~ Ernest Holmes

The Power which creates and sustains everything is now creating everything necessary to my happiness. ~ Ernest Holmes

No man can demonstrate peace and cling to unhappiness. ~ Ernest Holmes

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

I cleanse the windows of my mind, that it may become a mirror reflecting inspiration from the most High. I do this, not with strenuous effort, but through quiet contemplation, through gently reaching and affirming an inward recognition. I know exactly what to do in every situation. There is an inspiration within me which governs every act, every thought, with certainty, with conviction and in peace. ~ Ernest Holmes

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

We cannot lead a choiceless life. Every day, every moment, every second, there is a choice. If it were not so, we would not be individuals. ~ Ernest Holmes

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. ~ 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

The whole world, from the least to the greatest, must know the truth, so that man may understand the great laws that govern his life. He must learn to control his own destiny, to heal his own body and bring happiness to his own soul. ~ Ernest Holmes

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

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

Wait for the idea. It may not come at first, but you must be patient, never doubting, waiting in faith. It will come. ~ Ernest Holmes

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

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

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. ~ 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

Stop trying, stop struggling; begin to be calm, to trust in the higher laws of life, even though you do not see them; they are still there. ~ Ernest Holmes

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. ~ Ernest Holmes

You are more than you appear to be - Life is greater than you have ever known it - The best is yet to come. ~ Ernest Holmes

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

Everything in life responds to the song of the heart. ~ Ernest Holmes

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

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. ~ Ernest Holmes

The Divine Plan is one of Freedom. The inherent nature of man is ever seeking to express itself in terms of freedom, because freedom is the birthright of every living soul. ~ Ernest Holmes

Prepare your mind to recieve the best that life has to offer. ~ Ernest Holmes

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

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. ~ Ernest Holmes

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

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

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 ... ~ Ernest Holmes

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. ~ Ernest Holmes

As you discover your daily good, and believe in it, and think about it, expect it to continue. ~ Ernest Holmes

All the power of the universe is with you. Feel it, know it, and then act as though it were true. ~ Ernest Holmes

It has been said that we can know God only in so far as we can become God. ~ Ernest Holmes

[A definite statement] is an active, conscious, aggressive, mental movement and in such degree as it embodies an idea
and there is no longer anything in our minds which denies the idea
it will take form, because it now becomes a part of the low and order of the Universe in which we live. ~ 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

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

Life externalizes at the level of our thought. ~ Ernest Holmes

God wills us to have everything. As we express life, we fulfill God's law of abundance, but we do this only as we realize that there is good enough to go around-only as we know that all of God's gifts are given as freely and fully as the air and the sunshine. ~ Ernest Holmes

Like attracts like and we attract just what we are in mind. ~ Ernest Holmes

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