Ernest Holmes was a well-known American writer, leader, and teacher.
Holmes was the founder of the spiritual movement, 'Religious Science'. Its spiritual theory is referred to as 'The Science Of Mind.'
Besides writing the book 'The Science Of Mind,' he is the author of several other metaphysical books. He received various recognitions from around the world.
Also, he was awarded the Doctor of Letters by the Foundation Academic University of Spiritual Understanding. We have created a list of the best quotes from this famous writer, Ernest Holmes. These articles will surely inspire you and make you think.
Ernest Holmes Quotes on Intuition
Check out these amazing Ernest Holmes quotes on intuition.
"Where the mind goes energy flows."
"When you want to do a big thing, get the mental pattern, make it perfect, know just what it means, enlarge your thought, keep it to yourself, pass it over to the creative power behind all things, wait and listen, and when the impression comes, follow it with assurance.
Never listen to a negative talk or pay attention to it and you will succeed where all others fail."
"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."
“We are all immersed in the atmosphere of our own thinking. This decides what shall take place in our lives.”
“Heaven is within us, and we experience it to the degree that we become conscious of it.”
“With a penetrating vision, you can dissipate the obstruction, remove the obstacle, dissolve the wrong condition.”
"We must have a spiritual rebirth. We must be born out of the belief in externalities into the belief of inner realities, out of the belief that we are separated from God, into the belief that we are part of a Unitary Wholeness."
“Just what is meant by 'your word?' It means your conscious intention, your conscious direction, your conscious faith, and acceptance that, because of what you are doing, the Power of Spirit will flow through your word in the direction you give It.”
“The abundance you desire to experience must first be an experience in your mind.”
"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."
"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."
“The whole thing resolves itself into our mental ability to control our thought. The man who can do this can have what he wants can do what he wishes, and becomes what he wills.”
“All limitations are self-imposed.”
“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.”
“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 mind is a magnet and we attract that with which we identify the self. In order to get the most out of life, we must learn consciously to change many of our habitual thought patterns. This is not easy, for our old thought patterns cling to us with great tenacity, but, being thought patterns, they can be reversed."
“So plastic is mind, so receptive, that the slightest thought makes an impression upon it. People who think many kinds of thought must expect to receive a confused manifestation in their lives. If a gardener plants a thousand kinds of seeds, he will get a thousand kinds of plants: it is the same in mind.”
Ernest Holmes Quotes on Faith
Listed below are some Ernest Holmes quotes on faith.
“Fear brings failure; faith brings success. It’s just that simple.”
“Believe as though you are, and you will be.”
"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."
“You are more than you appear to be – Life is greater than you have ever known it – The best is yet to come.”
“Know that nothing can hinder you but yourself. If you believe you can, you can.”
“God is all there is - God includes everything, all possibility, and all action, for Spirit is the invisible essence and substance of all form.”
"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."
“Trust in your own self more than in all else.”
“Have the will to be well, to be happy, and to live in joy.”
". . . everything in life responds to the song of the heart."
“Like attracts like and we attract just what we are in mind.”
“Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.”
“If nothing goes forth from me than can hurt, then nothing can return to me that can harm.”
“Life externalizes at the level of our thought.”
"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."
“Instead of dwelling on negative thoughts, cause your mind to dwell on peace and joy.”
"To the soul that knows its own divinity, all else must gravitate"
“It is done to you as you believe.”
“Wake Up! Your word is all-powerful.”
“Whatever the mind holds to and firmly believes in, forms a new pattern of thought within its creative mold, as whatever thought is held in the mind tends to take outward form in new creations.”
Ernest Holmes Quotes on Gratitude
Have a look at some interesting Ernest Holmes quotes on gratitude.
“Gratitude is one of the chief graces of human existence and is crowned in heaven with a consciousness of unity.”
“Life is not just something to be endured. It is to be lived in joy, in a fullness without limit.”
“There is one power in the Universe and we can all use it.”
"You can attract only that which you mentally become and feel yourself to be in reality."
“Love is the sole impulse for creation, and the man who does not have it as the greatest incentive in his life has never developed the real creative instinct. No one can swing out into the Universal without love, for the whole universe is based upon it.”
“The universal Mind contains all knowledge. It is the potential ultimate of all things. To it, all things are possible.”
“We already live in a Perfect Universe, but It needs to be seen mentally before It can become a part of our experience.”
“Let us waste no further time looking for the secret of success or the key to happiness. Already the door is open and whosoever will, may enter.”
"I am guided by the same intelligence and inspired by the same imagination which scatters the moonbeams across the waves and holds the forces of nature in its grasp."
“Borrowing knowledge of reality from all sources, taking the best from every study, Science of Mind brings together the highest enlightenment of the ages.”
“The great spiritual geniuses, whether it was Moses, Buddha, Plato, Socrates, Jesus, or Emerson… have taught man to look within himself to find God.”
"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."
"All the power of the universe is with you. Feel it, know it, and then act as though it were true."
"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."
“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.”
“It is the nature of the universe to give us what we are able to take. It cannot give us more. It has given all, we have not yet accepted the greater gift.”
“We can no more do without spirituality than we can do without food, shelter, or clothing.”
Ernest Holmes Quotes on Prosperity
These are some Ernest Holmes quotes on prosperity that you must know. Read them out below.
“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.”
“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 for the unfolding and advancement of the soul.
This is a wise provision, for should we stay there too long, we would become to set, too rigid, too inflexible. Nature demands change in order that we may advance.”
“Change your thinking, change your life.”
“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.”
“Begin where you are. It would be unscientific to begin anywhere else.”
“As you discover your daily good, and believe in it, and think about it, expect it to continue.”
"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 creating not something done and finished, but something alive, awake, and aware. There is something within you that sings the song of eternity. Listen to it."
“Seek to make your work a prayer, your believing an act, your living an art. It is then the object of your faith will be made visible to you.”
“Never limit your view of life by any past experience.”
Other Interesting Ernest Holmes Quotes
Check out some other interesting quotes given by Ernest Holmes here.
“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.”
“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, heal his own body, and bring happiness to his own soul. ”
“In principle, the great religions of the world do not differ as much as they appear to.”
“The thought of judgment, criticism, and condemnation must, in time, operate against the one who sets it into motion.”
"Practically the whole human race is hypnotized because it thinks what somebody else told it to think."
"There is a Power around you that knows and that understands all things. This Power works like the soil; it receives the seed of your thought and at once begins to operate upon it. It will receive whatever you give to it and will create for you and throw back at you whatever you think into it."
“Let the inner ear listen to the voice of truth that is always speaking.”
“Any thought which tends to inspire, to comfort, and to give peace to the mind is good.”
“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.”
“We are chemists in the laboratory of Infinite. What, then shall we create?”
"God gives some more than others because some accept more than others."
“True imagination is not fanciful daydreaming; it is fire from heaven.”
"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."
“Move forward, think only about your dream, and never think about what you do not want.”
"Spirituality is natural goodness. God is not a person; God is a presence personified in us. Spirituality is not a thing; it is the atmosphere of God's Presence, goodness, truth, and beauty."