Ernest Holmes Quotes

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.

A consciousness of God releases the greatest power of all.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

To the soul that knows its own divinity, all else must gravitate

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.

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

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

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

Nothing is too good to be true.

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

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

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

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

A constant realization of the presence of Spirit will provide a sense of Divine Companionship that no other attitude could produce.

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.

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

No person whose entire time is spent in the contemplation of limitation can demonstrate freedom from such limitation.

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.

True teaching liberates the student from his teacher.

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.

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

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.

..Whoever 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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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 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.

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

Never limit your view of life by any past experience.

We must be convinced that abundance is the natural state of the Universe. To experience and accept abundance in our life, we must be convinced that as we conceive and believe, the Universe handles the details.

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.

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

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

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.