Ernest Holmes
Ernest Holmes
Ernest Shurtleff Holmeswas an American New Thought writer, teacher, and leader. He was the founder of a Spiritual movement known as Religious Science, a part of the greater New Thought movement, whose spiritual philosophy is known as "The Science of Mind." He was the author of The Science of Mind and numerous other metaphysical books, and the founder of Science of Mind magazine, in continuous publication since 1927. His books remain in print, and the principles he taught as "Science...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTheologian
CountryUnited States of America
Any thought which tends to inspire, to comfort, and to give peace to the mind is good.
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.
But even in the Christian religion, much of its real meaning is hidden by words that are misleading and symbols that but few understand.
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.
Borrowing knowledge of reality from all sources, taking the best from every study, Science of Mind brings together the highest enlightenment of the ages.
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.
We are chemists in the laboratory of the Infinite. What, then shall we create?
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.
Mind exists as a Principle in the universe, just as electricity exists as a principle.
To the man who can perfectly practice inaction, all things are possible.
Have the will to be well, to be happy, and to live in joy.
I am a gift of joy that God gives to a wonderful world.
We are bound by nothing except belief.
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.