Ernest Shurtleff Holmes Quotes

I know that in Love there can be no separation, for Love unites. Love sustains and protects Its own. I

It has been said that we can know God only in so far as we can become God.

Love rules through Law. Love is the Divine Givingness; Law is the Way. Love is spontaneous; Law is impersonal...Love points the way and Law makes the way possible.

All law must be subjective; the soil knows how to take a seed and make a plant from it; it does not know whether it is making a tomato or a potato...It knows how to create without knowing what It creates.

There is no limit to the Law, but there appears to be a limit to man's understanding of It.

Knowledge is of the intellect; wisdom and understanding are of the heart.

Your thought, operating through the Law of Life, can meet your need, convert fear into faith, loss into gain, failure into success. Act as though you already had dominion over evil. Refuse to entertain images of fear. Know that good is the only power there is.

We do not save that which was lost; we merely discover that which needs to be found.

Today I know that the healing presence of Life is within me, forever restoring my mind and body.

No man can demonstrate peace and cling to unhappiness.

[A definite statement] is an active, conscious, aggressive, mental movement and in such degree as it embodies an idea — and there is no longer anything in our minds which denies the idea — it will take form, because it now becomes a part of the low and order of the Universe in which we live.

That there is a God no sane person would deny; that there could be a God of vengeance and hate, having all the characteristics of a huge man in a terrible rage, no person can well believe and keep his sanity.

"Thoughts of failure, limitation or poverty are negative and must be counted out of our lives for all time. Somebody will say, "But what of the poor; what are you going to do with them; are they to be left without help?" No, a thousand times no. The same Power is in them that is in all men. They will always be poor
until they awake and realize what life is. All the charity on earth has never done away with poverty, and never will; if it could have done so it would have done so; it could not, therefore it has not. It will do a man a thousand times more.
good to show him how to succeed than it will to tell him he needs charity. We
need not listen to all the calamity howlers. Let them howl if it does them any
good. God has given us a Power and we must use it. We can do more toward
saving the world by proving this law than all that charity has ever given it."

We will not refuse to help the helpless or lift up the fallen, but we will reuse to wallow in the mud because of our sympathies.

Confronted with unhappiness, I will unmask it also by seeing through this false face to the true countenance of joy.