Ernest Holmes Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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. — Ernest Holmes

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

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. — 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

When we learn to trust the universe, we shall be happy, prosperous and well — 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

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

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

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

I live in the faith that there is a Presence and Power greater than I am that nurtures and supports me in ways I could not even imagine. I know that this Presence is All knowing and All Power and is Always right where I am — Ernest Holmes

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

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

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

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

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

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

Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it — Ernest Holmes

The highest God and the innermost God is one God. — Ernest Holmes

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

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

Nothing is too good to be true. — Ernest Holmes

Life externalizes at the level of our thought. — 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

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

Seeing and recognizing no opposite to itself, it finds no need of denial, indeed, this thought need not enter the mind; if we are working with the Spirit we need not deny but state the affirmative attitude of mind, realizing that we are dealing with the only power that exists. — 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

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

What we need to do is to eliminate the negative and accentuate the positive. In doing this, we gradually acquire the habit of affirmative thinking. — 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

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

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.' — 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

Trust in your own self more than in all else. — Ernest Holmes

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. — 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

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

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. — Ernest Holmes

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

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

There is no limit to the Law, but there appears to be a limit to man's understanding of It. — Ernest Holmes

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. — Ernest Holmes

If one sees only unloveliness in others, it is because unloveliness is a strong element in himself. The light he throws on others is generated in his own soul and sees them as he chooses to see them. — Ernest Holmes

We are bound by nothing except belief. — 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

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

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

Joy has come to live with me. How can I be sad? I do so love Thy presence, which is joy within me. — Ernest Holmes

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

We are all immersed in the atmosphere of our own thinking. This decides what shall take place in our lives. — 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The principle of any science is invisible, theoretical, as is our idea of Spirit. No one has seen God; no one has seen Life; what we have seen is the manifestation of Life. No one has seen Intelligence; we experience it. No one has ever seen Causation; we can see what It does, we deal with Its effects. We do not see Beauty. The artist feels beauty and depicts it as best he can, and the result of his effort is what we call the beautiful ... We do not see Life, we experience living. Causation is invisible. — 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

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

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

All limitations are self-imposed. — 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

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

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

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. — Ernest Holmes

Abundance is mine. I cannot be deprived of my supply. The trees do not lack for leaves, nor do the flowers fail to bloom. — Ernest Holmes

Jesus was not the great exception; he was the great example. — 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

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

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. — Ernest Holmes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. — 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

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

That which distinguishes the new thought from the old is not a denial of this Divine Reality, but an affirmation of its immediate availability. — Ernest Holmes

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

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

Love is the victor in every case. Love breaks down the iron bars of thought, and sets the captive free. — 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

Does this thing I wish to do express more life, more happiness, more peace to myself, and at the same time harm no one? If it does, it is right. It is not selfish. — Ernest Holmes

Begin to act from your dominion. Declare the truth by telling yourself that there is nothing to be afraid of, that you no longer entertain any images of fear. — Ernest Holmes

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

Anyone can heal who believes that he can and will take the time to put that belief into motion. — Ernest Holmes

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. — 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