Ernest Holmes is the founder of Religious Science, which has its roots in Christian Science but incorporates elements from other religions and philosophies. These quotes are a collection of his best quotes on living a more spiritual life.
Ernest Holmes Quotes
“True imagination is not fanciful daydreaming; it is fire from heaven. ”
― Ernest Holmes
“The two should really go hand in hand; for one deals with causes and the other with effects. True philosophy and true science will some day meet on a common basis; and, working together, will give to the world a theology of reality. Then, indeed, will “God go forth anew into Creation.” A”
― Ernest Holmes, Ernest Holmes: The Essential Collection
“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
“Never limit your view of life by any past experience.”
― Ernest Holmes
Ernest Holmes Quotes on Intuition
“Whatever I should know, I will know. Whatever I should do, I will do. Whatever belongs to me, must come to me, and because of this Infinite Intelligence that is mine and that is within me now, I am compelled to recognize my Good, to see more, to understand and accept and express more.”
― Ernest Holmes, 365 Science of Mind: A Year of Daily Wisdom from Ernest Holmes
“Prepare your mind to recieve the best that life has to offer.”
― Ernest Holmes
“Life is not just something to be endured. It is to be lived in joy, in a fullness without limit (p.82)”
― Ernest Holmes, Discover a Richer Life
“God is pure Spirit, filling all space.”
― Ernest Shurtleff Holmes, 365 Science of Mind: A Year of Daily Wisdom from Ernest Holmes
“Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it”
― Ernest Holmes
“Electricity was a reality in the universe when Moses led the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt. This is true of all natural laws; they have always existed but only when understood may they be used.”
― Ernest Holmes, The Science of Mind
Ernest Holmes Quotes on Death
“We do not save that which was lost; we merely discover that which needs to be found.”
― Ernest Holmes, 365 Science of Mind: A Year of Daily Wisdom from Ernest Holmes
“There is one power in the Universe and we can all use it.”
― Ernest Holmes, The Science of Mind: The Definitive Edition
“We are all thinking, willing, knowing,conscious centers of Life. We are surroundedby, immersed in, and there is flowing through us a creative something… call it what you will.”
― Ernest Holmes
“That there is a God no sane person would deny; that there could be a God of vengeance and hate, having all the characteristics of a huge man in a terrible rage, no person can well believe and keep his sanity.”
― Ernest Holmes, Ernest Holmes: The Essential Collection
Ernest Holmes on Peace
“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, Living the Science of Mind
“Confronted with unhappiness, I will unmask it also by seeing through this false face to the true countenance of joy.”
― Ernest Holmes, 365 Science of Mind: A Year of Daily Wisdom from 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, The Science of Mind
“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, The Science of Mind
Thoughts Are Things Ernest Holmes PDF
“Today I know that the healing presence of Life is within me, forever restoring my mind and body.”
― Ernest Holmes, 365 Science of Mind: A Year of Daily Wisdom from Ernest Holmes
“The road to freedom lies, not through mysteries or occult performances, but through the intelligent use of Nature’s forces and laws. The Law of Mind is a natural law in the spiritual world.”
― Ernest Holmes, The Science of Mind
“As he learns the Truth, the Truth will automatically free him.”
― Ernest Holmes, The Science of Mind
“No man can demonstrate peace and cling to unhappiness.”
― Ernest Holmes, The Science of Mind
“It should be considered right to live and enjoy living. To be well, happy, and to express freedom, is to be in accord with Divine Law and Wisdom.”
― Ernest Holmes, The Science of Mind
Ernest Holmes Quote on Faith
“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, The Science of Mind
“Nature operates according to a law of logical sequence.”
― Ernest Holmes, The Science of Mind
“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, Living the Science of Mind
Ernest Holmes on Love
“As I go forth today and embark on the wonderful experience of living, I am on a journey of self-discovery and also of the discovery of the self hidden in everyone and the Power in back of everything.”
― Ernest Holmes, 365 Science of Mind: A Year of Daily Wisdom from 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, Ernest Holmes: The Essential Collection
“Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.”
― Ernest Holmes
“Jesus was not the great exception; he was the great example.”
― Ernest Holmes, The Philosophy of Jesus: Updated and Gender-Neutral
“Knowledge is of the intellect; wisdom and understanding are of the heart.”
― Ernest Holmes, 365 Science of Mind: A Year of Daily Wisdom from Ernest Holmes
“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.”
― Ernest Holmes, The Science of Mind
Ernest Holmes on Gratitude
“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, The Philosophy of Jesus: Updated and Gender-Neutral
“[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, The Science of Mind
“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, The Science of Mind
“Man, by thinking, can bring into his experience whatsoever he desires–if he thinks correctly, and becomes a living embodiment of his thoughts. This is not done by holding thoughts but by knowing the Truth.”
― 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, The Science of Mind
Ernest Holmes on God
“It has been said that we can know God only in so far as we can become God.”
― Ernest Holmes
“Love rules through Law. Love is the Divine Givingness; Law is the Way. Love is spontaneous; Law is impersonal…Love points the way and Law makes the way possible.”
― Ernest Holmes, The Science of Mind
“We will not refuse to help the helpless or lift up the fallen, but we will reuse to wallow in the mud because of our sympathies.”
― Ernest Holmes
“There is no limit to the Law, but there appears to be a limit to man’s understanding of It.”
― Ernest Holmes, The Science of Mind
“Anything that will enable us to express greater life, greater happiness, greater power–so long as it does not harm anyone–must be the Will of God for us.”
― Ernest Holmes, The Science of Mind
Ernest Holmes is a famous author, physician and philosopher. He was a founder of the Science of Mind philosophy and Religious Science, which is based on the idea that God is universal father-mother intelligence (Love).