Ernest Holmes

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Each one should realize there is nothing in (us) which denies that which (we) desire.
- Ernest Holmes
Collection: Desire
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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.
- Ernest Holmes
Collection: Lying
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Everything necessary to the full and complete expression of the most boundless experience of joy is mine now.
- Ernest Holmes
Collection: Positive Thinking
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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.
- Ernest Holmes
Collection: Attitude
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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.
- Ernest Holmes
Collection: Wish
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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.
- Ernest Holmes
Collection: Spiritual
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No one can rob us of our own soul, and our spirit is already one with the eternal goodness.
- Ernest Holmes
Collection: Soul
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There is One Infinite Spirit and every time man says, "I am" he proclaims it.
- Ernest Holmes
Collection: Men
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Life is greater than you have ever known it.
- Ernest Holmes
Collection: Native American
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ANYONE may become a revealer of Truth who lives in close contact with the indwelling God.
- Ernest Holmes
Collection: God
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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
Collection: God
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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
Collection: Spiritual
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True teaching liberates the student from his teacher.
- Ernest Holmes
Collection: Teacher
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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.
- Ernest Holmes
Collection: Life
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Joy has come to live with me. How can I be sad? I do so love Thy presence, which is joy within me.
- Ernest Holmes
Collection: Joy
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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
Collection: Eternity
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Create or perish is the eternal mandate of nature. Be constructive or become frustrated is an equal demand. You cannot escape the conclusion that whatever this thing is which is seeking expression through everything, it can find satisfactory outlet only through constructive and life-giving creativeness.
- Ernest Holmes
Collection: Creativity
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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.
- Ernest Holmes
Collection: Prayer
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The mind of man is continuously unfolding into a greater recognition of its real plan in the creative order of the Universe.
- Ernest Holmes
Collection: Real
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There is but one ultimate Power. This Power is to each one what he is to it.
- Ernest Holmes
Collection: God
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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
Collection: Self
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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
Collection: Men
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Every thought has a consequence. And every experience has a causative thought behind it.
- Ernest Holmes
Collection: Behinds
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The abundance you desire to experience must first be an experience in your mind.
- Ernest Holmes
Collection: Mind
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You can attract only that which you mentally become and feel yourself to be in reality.
- Ernest Holmes
Collection: Reality
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. . . everything in life responds to the song of the heart.
- Ernest Holmes
Collection: Song
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We are chemists in the laboratory of the Infinite. What, then shall we create?
- Ernest Holmes
Collection: Infinite
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I cleanse the windows of my mind, that it may become a mirror reflecting inspiration from the most High. I do this, not with strenuous effort, but through quiet contemplation, through gently reaching and affirming an inward recognition. I know exactly what to do in every situation. There is an inspiration within me which governs every act, every thought, with certainty, with conviction and in peace.
- Ernest Holmes
Collection: Inspiration
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Seek to make your work a prayer, your believing an act, your living an art. It is then that the object of your faith will be made visible to you. It is then that you shall 'kiss the lips of your desire.'
- Ernest Holmes
Collection: Art
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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 creatingnot something done and finished, but something alive, awake and aware. There is something within you that sings the song of eternity. Listen to it.
- Ernest Holmes
Collection: Song
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You have discovered the spiritual universe. Many others have discovered this same world, but each must make the discovery for himself. You are going to have a lot of joy sailing around this world of yours. Don't fight the opinions of others, or waste your time arguing over these things. Follow the inward gleam of your consciousness and you will arrive.
- Ernest Holmes
Collection: Spiritual
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We are bound by nothing except belief.
- Ernest Holmes
Collection: Belief
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All limitations are self-imposed.
- Ernest Holmes
Collection: Inspirational
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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
Collection: Men
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Abundance is mine. I cannot be deprived of my supply. The trees do not lack for leaves, nor do the flowers fail to bloom.
- Ernest Holmes
Collection: Flower
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. . . man is just what he thinks himself to be . . . He will attract to himself what the thinks most about. He can learn to govern his own destiny when he learns to control his thoughts.
- Ernest Holmes
Collection: Healing
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Begin where you are. It would be unscientific to begin anywhere else.
- Ernest Holmes
Collection: Would Be
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We are all immersed in the atmosphere of our own thinking, which is the direct result of all we have ever said, thought or done. This decides what is to take place in our lives.
- Ernest Holmes
Collection: Thinking
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Since the only life you can have is the life of the Spirit within you, you need but permit Its radiance to flow through your thought into self-expression. You are surrounded by a dynamic force, a great surge of living power. You are immersed in and saturated with the vital essence of Life. Its presence permeates everything, binding all together in one complete whole.
- Ernest Holmes
Collection: Self
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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.
- Ernest Holmes
Collection: Today
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Life is ever giving of Itself. We must receive, utilize and extend the gift. Success and prosperity are spiritual attributes belonging to all people.
- Ernest Holmes
Collection: Inspirational
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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
Collection: Forgiveness
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The thought of judgment, criticism and condemnation must, in time, operate against the one who sets it into motion.
- Ernest Holmes
Collection: Criticism
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To the soul that knows its own divinity, all else must gravitate
- Ernest Holmes
Collection: Spiritual
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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
Collection: Mean
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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
Collection: Mistake
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Fear brings failure; faith brings success. It's just that simple.
- Ernest Holmes
Collection: Simple
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It is done to you as you believe.
- Ernest Holmes
Collection: Believe