Quotes from Charles Fillmore

The one and only formative power given to man is thought. By his thinking he not only makes character, but body and affairs, for "as he thinketh within himself, so is he."

Let the God within you express itself through you in the world without.

Here is a mental treatment guaranteed to cure every ill that flesh is heir to: sit for half an hour every night and mentally forgive everyone against whom you have any ill will or antipathy.

The mind of the spirit will guide you in perfect ways, even in the minute details of your life, if you will let it do so.

We increase whatever we praise. The whole creation responds to praise, and is glad.

Words are also seeds, and when dropped into the invisible spiritual substance, they grow and bring forth after their kind.

There are opportunities everywhere, just as there have always been.

Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power of ideas.

The spiritual substance from which comes all visible wealth is never depleted. It is right with you all the time and responds to your faith in it and your demands on it.

Imagination gives the man the ability to poject himself through time and space and rise above all limitations.

It is a sin to be poor.

It is the childlike mind that finds the kingdom.

All causes are essentially mental, and whosoever comes into daily contact with a high order of thinking must take on some of it.

man's bodily condition depends on his state of mind. No two persons the same age are in exactly the same bodily condition. This shows that years do not make man young or old. "For as he thinketh within himself, so is he" (Prov. 23:7).

The true church is not made of creeds and forms, nor is it contained in walls of wood and stone; the heart of man is its temple and the Spirit of truth is the one guide into all Truth. When men learn to turn within to the Spirit of truth, who is in each one for his light and inspiration, the differences between the churches of man will be eliminated, and the one church will be recognized.

You must first enter into the understanding that God, omnipresent, omnipotent, and omniscient, is the source and that you can draw on this source without limit.

Right here and now the great work of character-building is to be done, and whoever neglects present opportunities, looking forward to a future heaven for better conditions, is pulling right away from the kingdom of heaven within himself.

Metaphysical. Justus means just, upright. One definition of "just" is "conforming to the spiritual law . . . righteous before God." Justus signifies that in man's religious consciousness which truly worships God, which conforms to divine law.

This inexhaustible mind substance is available at all times and in all places to those who have learned to lay hold of it in consciousness. The simplest, shortest, and most direct way of doing this was explained when Jesus said, Whosoever ... shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that what he saith cometh to pass, he shall have it.

Bless what you receive; bless what you send out. God's plenteous substance moves in and through our mind constantly like a light shining in the darkness, but we do not comprehend it.

The kingdom of God is omnipresence. It is absolute, changeless. It is within, but it is also everywhere. It is God transcendent.

Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power of ideas.

The highest and best work of imagination is the marvelous transformation that it works in character. Imagine that you are one with the principal of good, and you will become truly good.