Ernest Shurtleff Holmes Quotes

• Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.

  Ernest Shurtleff Holmes

  Topics in Life

• Teach and practice, practice and teach – that is all we have; that is all we are good for; The intellect is a cold thing and a merely intellectual idea will never stimulate thought in the same manner that a spiritual idea does.

  Ernest Shurtleff Holmes

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  Tags in Teach, Practice

• I do not believe that God has imposed suffering upon anyone to punish them or to teach them a lesson.

  Ernest Shurtleff Holmes

  Topics in God

  Tags in Believe

• The road to freedom lies not through mysteries or occult performances, but through the intelligent use of natural forces and laws.

  Ernest Shurtleff Holmes

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  Tags in Freedom, Mysteries

• Prayer is a thought, a belief, a feeling, arising within the mind of the one praying.

  Ernest Shurtleff Holmes

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  Tags in Prayer, Feeling

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

  Ernest Shurtleff Holmes

  Topics in Knowledge

  Tags in Things

• In principle the great religions of the world do not differ as much as they appear to.

  Ernest Shurtleff Holmes

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Religions, Principle

• Each one of us is an outlet to God and an inlet to God.

  Ernest Shurtleff Holmes

  Topics in God

• God gives some more than others because some accept more than others.

  Ernest Shurtleff Holmes

  Topics in God

• The universe must exist for the self-expression of God and the delight of God.

  Ernest Shurtleff Holmes

  Topics in God

  Tags in Universe

• To believe in a just law of cause and effect, carrying with it a punishment or a reward, is to believe in righteousness.

  Ernest Shurtleff Holmes

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  Tags in Believe, Law, Effect

• There was a time when a man was so convinced that the world was round that he was determined to prove it.

  Ernest Shurtleff Holmes

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  Tags in Time, Convinced, World

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

  Ernest Shurtleff Holmes

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  Tags in Faith, Universe

• Borrowing knowledge of reality from all sources, taking the best from every study, Science of Mind brings together the highest enlightenment of the ages.

  Ernest Shurtleff Holmes

  Topics in Knowledge

  Tags in Reality

• But even in the Christian religion, much of its real meaning is hidden by words that are misleading and symbols that but few understand.

  Ernest Shurtleff Holmes

  Topics in Religion

  Tags in Christian, Understand

• We can no more do without spirituality than we can do without food, shelter, or clothing.

  Ernest Shurtleff Holmes

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Faith
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  Practically the whole human race is hypnotized because it thinks what somebody else told it to think.

  Ernest Shurtleff Holmes

  Tags in Else, Race, Told

Ernest Shurtleff Holmes (17)

Birth:	21st January, 1887
Death:	7th April, 1960
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Philosopher, Teacher, Theologian, Writer

About

Ernest Shurtleff Holmes was born in Lincoln, Maine, USA. He was an American writer, teacher, philosopher, and theologian. 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. He wrote several books include: Creative Mind, Creative Mind and Success, This thing called you, Living the science of mind, The Hidden Power of the Bible, 365 Science of Mind, How to change your life, and Love and Law.

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