Ernest Holmes Quotes

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

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#2. 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.

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#3. Let the inner ear listen to the voice of truth that is always speaking.

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

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#5. 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.

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#6. 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.

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#7. Nothing is too good to be true.

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#8. A consciousness of God releases the greatest power of all.

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#9. 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.

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

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#11. 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.

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

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

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

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#15. Borrowing knowledge of reality from all sources, taking the best from every study, Science of Mind brings together the highest enlightenment of the ages.

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#16. Gratitude is one of the chief graces of human existence and is crowned in heaven with a consciousness of unity.

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#17. All limitations are self-imposed.

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#18. 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.

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#19. Nature operates according to a law of logical sequence.

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#20. All the power of the universe is with you. Feel it, know it, and then act as though it were true.

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#21. 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.

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#22. One who has learned to love all people will find plenty of people who will return that love.

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#23. 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.

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#24. Every thought has a consequence. And every experience has a causative thought behind it.

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#25. As he learns the Truth, the Truth will automatically free him.

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#26. Never limit your view of life by any past experience.

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#27. Practically the whole human race is hypnotized because it thinks what somebody else told it to think.

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#28. 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.

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#29. Enthusiasm reaches out with joy, for there is nothing depressing about it; it reaches out in faith, for there is no fear in it; it reaches out with acceptance, for there is no doubt in it; it reaches out as a child for there is no uncertainty about it.

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#30. I am a gift of joy that God gives to a wonderful world.

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#31. We should daily feel a deeper union with Life, a greater sense of that Indwelling God - the God of the seen and of the unseen - within us.

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#32. Instead of dwelling on negative thoughts, cause your mind to dwell on peace and joy.

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

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#34. 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.

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

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#36. We already live in a Perfect Universe, but It needs to be seen mentally before It can become a part of our experience.

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

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#38. [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.

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

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#40. 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.

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#41. 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.

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#42. As you discover your daily good, and believe in it, and think about it, expect it to continue.

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#43. There is one power in the Universe and we can all use it.

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#44. Prepare your mind to recieve the best that life has to offer.

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#45. The manifest universe is the body of God ... all people are incarnations of the One Spirit.

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

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#47. There is but one ultimate Power. This Power is to each one what he is to it.

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#48. 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.

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

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#50. Too often, our minds are so burdened because of the mistakes we have made that we do not take the time to forgive ourselves and others and start over again.

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#51. 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.

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

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#53. Faith is a mental attitude that is so convinced of its own idea - which so completely accepts it - that any contradiction is unthinkable and impossible.

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#54. What you are looking for is what you are looking with.

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#55. Wait for the idea. It may not come at first, but you must be patient, never doubting, waiting in faith. It will come.

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#56. Healing is the discovery of the Divinity within.

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#57. It has been said that we can know God only in so far as we can become God.

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#58. The universal Mind contains all knowledge. It is the potential ultimate of all things. To it, all things are possible.

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

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#60. A state of expectancy is a great assetl; a state of uncertainty-one moment thinking "perhaps" and the next moment thinking "I don't know"-will never get desired results.

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#61. It is right that we should be successful, for otherwise Spirit is not expressed.

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#62. We are chemists in the laboratory of the Infinite. What, then shall we create?

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#63. The abundance you desire to experience must first be an experience in your mind.

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#64. 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.

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#65. No one can rob us of our own soul, and our spirit is already one with the eternal goodness.

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

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#67. 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.

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#68. It is done to you as you believe.

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#69. 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.

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

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#71. My affairs are in the keeping of Infinite Wisdom. I am guided by Divine Intelligence. The activity of Spirit inspires my mind and flows through my actions. Life lies open to me, rich, full and abundant.

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

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#73. 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.

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#74. Believe as though you are, and you will be ...

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#75. 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.

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#76. 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.

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#77. True teaching liberates the student from his teacher.

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#78. Everything necessary to the full and complete expression of the most boundless experience of joy is mine now.

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#79. Each one should realize there is nothing in (us) which denies that which (we) desire.

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#80. The more power one gives to his thought
the more completely he believes that his thought has power
the more power will it have.

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#81. 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.

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#82. In principle the great religions of the world do not differ as much as they appear to.

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#83. 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.

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#84. When we learn to trust the universe, we shall be happy, prosperous and well

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#85. To the man who can perfectly practice inaction, all things are possible.

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#86. 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.

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

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#88. Trust in your own self more than in all else.

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#89. When we conceive a new idea we are thinking directly from the creativity of God.

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#90. Heaven is within us, and we experience it to the degree that we become conscious of it.

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#91. Where the mind goes energy flows.

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#92. 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.

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#93. 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.

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#94. If you wish to know the truth about your business or your profession, know that it is an activity of good. It is an activity of your partnership with the infinite.

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#95. 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.

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#96. Mind exists as a Principle in the universe, just as electricity exists as a principle.

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#97. 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.

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#98. Have the will to be well, to be happy, and to live in joy.

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#99. 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.

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#100. 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.

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