Quotes by Ernest Holmes

• The intellect is a cold thing and a merely intellectual idea will never stimulate thought in the same manner that a spiritual idea does.
• Teach and practice, practice and teach - that is all we have; that is all we are good for; that is all we ever ought to do.
• We can no more do without spirituality than we can do without food, shelter, or clothing.
• To believe in a just law of cause and effect, carrying with it a punishment or a reward, is to believe in righteousness.
• There was a time when a man was so convinced that the world was round that he was determined to prove it.
• The universe must exist for the self-expression of God and the delight of God.
• The road to freedom lies not through mysteries or occult performances, but through the intelligent use of natural forces and laws.
• Borrowing knowledge of reality from all sources, taking the best from every study, Science of Mind brings together the highest enlightenment of the ages.
• When prayer removes distrust and doubt and enters the field of mental certainty, it becomes faith; and the universe is built on faith.
• Each one of us is an outlet to God and an inlet to God.
• Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.
• In principle the great religions of the world do not differ as much as they appear to.
• I do not believe that God has imposed suffering upon anyone to punish them or to teach them a lesson.
• But even in the Christian religion, much of its real meaning is hidden by words that are misleading and symbols that but few understand.
• God gives some more than others because some accept more than others.
• The universal Mind contains all knowledge. It is the potential ultimate of all things. To it, all things are possible.
• Prayer is a thought, a belief, a feeling, arising within the mind of the one praying.