Quotes from Ernest Holmes

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

We are born to create, and we can't help it. Why is that? Because God, the great Creator, is in us.

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

There is a Power in the universe greater than you are, and you can use it.

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.

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

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.

Prayer is a thought, a belief, a feeling, arising within the mind of the one praying.

Divine Intelligence working through me always knows just what I need and always supplies it when I need it.

But even in the Christian religion, much of its real meaning is hidden by words that are misleading and symbols that but few understand.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Life externalizes at the level of our thought.

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.

. . . everything in life responds to the song of the heart.

Life is ever giving of Itself. We must receive, utilize and extend the gift. Success and prosperity are spiritual attributes belonging to all people.

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

The great spiritual geniuses, whether it was Moses, Buddha, Plato, Socrates, Jesus, or Emerson..... have taught man to look within himself to find God.

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

The intellect is a cold thing and a merely intellectual idea will never stimulate thought in the same manner that a spiritual idea does.

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.