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
No one can rob us of our own soul, and our spirit is already one with the eternal goodness.
What you are looking for is what you are looking with.
That which distinguishes the new thought from the old is not a denial of this Divine Reality, but an affirmation of its immediate availability.
We live in a spiritual Universe. God is in, through, around and for us.
We can no more do without spirituality than we can do without food, shelter, or clothing.
It is right that we should be successful, for otherwise Spirit is not expressed.
There is One Infinite Spirit and every time man says, "I am" he proclaims it.
The manifest universe is the body of God ... all people are incarnations of the One Spirit.
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.
The intellect is a cold thing and a merely intellectual idea will never stimulate thought in the same manner that a spiritual idea does.
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.
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.
It is necessary for us to understand that the only Active Principle is Spirit.
The great spiritual geniuses, whether it was Moses, Buddha, Plato, Socrates, Jesus, or Emerson..... have taught man to look within himself to find God.