
Top 100 Ernest Holmes Quotes
#1. Everything in the Universe is for us. Nothing is against us. Life is ever giving of Itself. We must receive, utilize and extend the gift. Success and prosperity are spiritual attributes belonging to all people, but not necessarily used by all people." - Ernest Holmes in The Science of Mind
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#2. 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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#3. As you discover your daily good, and believe in it, and think about it, expect it to continue.
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#4. 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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#5. The thought of judgment, criticism and condemnation must, in time, operate against the one who sets it into motion.
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#6. We are all immersed in the atmosphere of our own thinking. This decides what shall take place in our lives.
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#7. [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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#8. Like attracts like and we attract just what we are in mind.
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#9. 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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#10. To the soul that knows its own divinity, all else must gravitate
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#11. 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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#12. There is a Power in the universe greater than you are, and you can use it.
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#13. You can attract only that which you mentally become and feel yourself to be in reality.
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#14. Instead of dwelling on negative thoughts, cause your mind to dwell on peace and joy.
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#15. Know that nothing can hinder you but yourself. If you believe you can, you can.
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#16. Anyone can heal who believes that he can and will take the time to put that belief into motion.
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#17. 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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#18. I am a gift of joy that God gives to a wonderful world.
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#20. Jesus was not the great exception; he was the great example.
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#21. 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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#22. 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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#23. Practically the whole human race is hypnotized because it thinks what somebody else told it to think.
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#24. A constant realization of the presence of Spirit will provide a sense of Divine Companionship that no other attitude could produce.
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#25. There is One Infinite Spirit and every time man says, "I am" he proclaims it.
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#26. Never limit your view of life by any past experience.
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#27. 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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#28. 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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#29. The universal Mind contains all knowledge. It is the potential ultimate of all things. To it, all things are possible.
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#30. The mind of man is continuously unfolding into a greater recognition of its real plan in the creative order of the Universe.
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#31. It has been said that we can know God only in so far as we can become God.
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#32. Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it
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#33. Healing is the discovery of the Divinity within.
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#34. 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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#35. What you are looking for is what you are looking with.
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#36. 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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#37. We live in a spiritual Universe. God is in, through, around and for us.
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#38. 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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#39. 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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#40. 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.
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#41. 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.
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#42. You can be on the cusp of something. Appreciate the cusp, not the something. Appreciate this moment now.
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#43. It is necessary for us to understand that the only Active Principle is Spirit.
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#44. 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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#45. There is but one ultimate Power. This Power is to each one what he is to it.
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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. Begin where you are. It would be unscientific to begin anywhere else.
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#48. The manifest universe is the body of God ... all people are incarnations of the One Spirit.
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#49. Prepare your mind to recieve the best that life has to offer.
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#50. There is one power in the Universe and we can all use it.
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#51. The truth is true wherever you find it. Remember, sugar is sweet whether you find it in a sugar bowl or a dust pan.
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#52. A consciousness of God releases the greatest power of all.
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#53. There is no limit to the Law, but there appears to be a limit to man's understanding of It.
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#54. Fear brings failure; faith brings success. It's just that simple.
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#55. 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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#56. No person whose entire time is spent in the contemplation of limitation can demonstrate freedom from such limitation.
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#57. 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.
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#58. 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.
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#59. 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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#60. 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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#61. 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.
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#62. Drop all negative thoughts from the mind. Do not dwell on adversity but think plenty into everything, for there is power in the word. Meditate on the things you are doing as being already done - complete and perfect.
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#63. 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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#64. 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.
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#65. 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.
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#66. The universe must exist for the self-expression of God and the delight of God.
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#68. 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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#69. 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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#70. Everything in life responds to the song of the heart.
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#71. 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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#72. Let the inner ear listen to the voice of truth that is always speaking.
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#73. 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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#74. Surely there is a knowing behind it all. There is a teacher, an expresser, a creator, an artist perhaps, a poet certainly that has designed and presented all of the clues that we need to navigate life with some degree of grace, and perhaps with a greater degree of happiness than we now have.
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#75. Divine Intelligence working through me always knows just what I need and always supplies it when I need it.
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#77. No man can demonstrate peace and cling to unhappiness.
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#78. Every thought has a consequence. And every experience has a causative thought behind it.
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#79. 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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#80. Never let anything cause you to doubt your ability to demonstrate the Truth.
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#81. Since each soul is some part of the Whole, it is impossible that any soul can be lost.
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#83. One who has learned to love all people will find plenty of people who will return that love.
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#84. A realization of the Presence of God is the most powerful healing agency known to the mind of man.
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#85. 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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#86. There was a time when a man was so convinced that the world was round that he was determined to prove it.
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#87. 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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#88. Nature operates according to a law of logical sequence.
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#89. As he learns the Truth, the Truth will automatically free him.
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#90. 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 ...
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#91. We are to look for God in each other and love this God, forgetting all else ...
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#92. There is One Infinite Mind, which of necessity includes all that is, whether it be the intelligence in man, the life in the animal, or the invisible Presence which is God.
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#93. 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.
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#94. 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.
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#95. 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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#96. 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.
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#98. Gratitude is one of the chief graces of human existence and is crowned in heaven with a consciousness of unity.
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#99. 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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#100. As our thought is opened and we behold the image of eternity within ourselves, we are changed by this image into a newness of life.
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