Top 140 Ernest Holmes Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Love is at the Center of our being, and the calm, continuous pulsations of life are governed by Love.”

— Ernest Holmes

52. “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

53. “True imagination is not fanciful daydreaming; it is fire from heaven.”

— Ernest Holmes

54. “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.”

— Ernest Holmes

55. “True teaching liberates the student from his teacher.”

— Ernest Holmes

56. “God is all there is – God includes everything, all possibility and all action, for Spirit is the invisible essence and substance of all form.”

— Ernest Holmes

57. “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.”

— Ernest Holmes

58. “Prayer is a thought, a belief, a feeling, arising within the mind of the one praying.”

— Ernest Holmes

59. “I am guided by the same intelligence and inspired by the same imagination which scatters the moon beams across the waves and holds the forces of nature in it’s grasp.”

— Ernest Holmes

60. “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.”

— Ernest Holmes

61. “Every thought has a consequence. And every experience has a causative thought behind it.”

— Ernest Holmes

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

— Ernest Holmes

63. “Any thought which tends to inspire, to comfort, and to give peace to the mind is good.”

— Ernest Holmes

64. “A constant realization of the presence of Spirit will provide a sense of Divine Companionship that no other attitude could produce.”

— Ernest Holmes

65. “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.”

— Ernest Holmes

66. “No person whose entire time is spent in the contemplation of limitation can demonstrate freedom from such limitation.”

— Ernest Holmes

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

— Ernest Holmes

68. “To the soul that knows its own divinity, all else must gravitate.”

— Ernest Holmes

69. “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.”

— Ernest Holmes

70. “When we conceive a new idea we are thinking directly from the creativity of God.”

— Ernest Holmes

71. “Within us is the unborn possibility of limitless experience. Ours is the privilege of giving birth to it!”

— Ernest Holmes

72. “The mind of man is continuously unfolding into a greater recognition of its real plan in the creative order of the Universe.”

— Ernest Holmes

73. “Life is greater than you have ever known it.”

— Ernest Holmes

74. “The universal Mind contains all knowledge. It is the potential ultimate of all things. To it, all things are possible.”

— Ernest Holmes

75. “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.”

— Ernest Holmes

76. “A consciousness of God releases the greatest power of all.”

— Ernest Holmes

77. “ANYONE may become a revealer of Truth who lives in close contact with the indwelling God.”

— Ernest Holmes

78. “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.”

— Ernest Holmes

79. “I am a gift of joy that God gives to a wonderful world.”

— Ernest Holmes

80. “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.”

— Ernest Holmes

81. “Everything necessary to the full and complete expression of the most boundless experience of joy is mine now.”

— Ernest Holmes

82. “It is right that we should be successful, for otherwise Spirit is not expressed.”

— Ernest Holmes

83. “Life externalizes at the level of our thought.”

— Ernest Holmes

84. “One who has learned to love all people will find plenty of people who will return that love.”

— Ernest Holmes

85. “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

86. “The highest God and the innermost God is one God.”

— Ernest Holmes

87. “What you are looking for is what you are looking with.”

— Ernest Holmes

88. “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

89. “All emerge from that One Whose Being is ever present and Whose Life, robed in numberless forms, is manifest throughout all creation. Creation is the logical result of the out-push of Life into self-expression.”

— Ernest Holmes

90. “Each one of us is an outlet to God and an inlet to God.”

— Ernest Holmes

91. “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

92. “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...”

— Ernest Holmes

93. “Never let anything cause you to doubt your ability to demonstrate the Truth.”

— Ernest Holmes

94. “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

95. “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

96. “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.”

— Ernest Holmes

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

— Ernest Holmes

98. “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.”

— Ernest Holmes

99. “It is necessary for us to understand that the only Active Principle is Spirit.”

— Ernest Holmes

100. “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