Ernest Holmes Quotes
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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.'
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We are chemists in the laboratory of the Infinite. What, then shall we create?
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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.
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God gives some more than others because some accept more than others.
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Each one should realize there is nothing in (us) which denies that which (we) desire.
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Like attracts like and we attract just what we are in mind.
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The great spiritual geniuses, whether it was Moses, Buddha, Plato, Socrates, Jesus, or Emerson..... have taught man to look within himself to find God.
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Expectancy speeds progress. Therefore, live in a continual state of expectancy. No matter how much good you are experiencing today, expect greater good tomorrow. Expect to meet new friends. Expect to meet new and wonderful experiences. Try this magic of expectancy and you will soon discover a dramatic side to your work which gives full vent to constructive feeling.
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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.
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When prayer removes distrust and doubt and enters the field of mental certainty, it becomes faith; and the universe is built on faith.
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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.
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Life is not just something to be endured. It is to be lived in joy, in a fullness without limit (p.82)
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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.
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The abundance you desire to experience must first be an experience in your mind.
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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.
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Let the inner ear listen to the voice of truth that is always speaking.
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Heaven is within us, and we experience it to the degree that we become conscious of it.
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The manifest universe is the body of God ... all people are incarnations of the One Spirit.
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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.
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Gratitude is one of the chief graces of human existence and is crowned in heaven with a consciousness of unity.
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ANYONE may become a revealer of Truth who lives in close contact with the indwelling God.
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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.
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All limitations are self-imposed.
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Wait for the idea. It may not come at first, but you must be patient, never doubting, waiting in faith. It will come.
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What you are looking for is what you are looking with.
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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.
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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.
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We can no more do without spirituality than we can do without food, shelter, or clothing.
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As you discover your daily good, and believe in it, and think about it, expect it to continue.
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In principle the great religions of the world do not differ as much as they appear to.
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