Ernest Holmes (1887-1960)
The inspiring, spiritual self improvement quotes below are from one of the most influential teachers of New Age spirituality. Ernest Holmes, founder of the Religious Science movement, is best known for his book “The Science of Mind.”
This book helps readers to be effective at praying, meditation, healing, and mastering the powers of the mind to find purpose in life. Holmes was an ordained Divine Science Minister who inspired countless metaphysics students and contributed significantly to the New Thought movement.
Although Ernest Holmes left this physical world in 1960, his powerful teachings continue to change lives around the world. Please enjoy the inspirational quotes and share them if you’re so inspired.
Ernest Holmes Self Development Quotes
Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.
The most destructive force you and I have – and the most constructive – is our own unconscious emotional and thinking and feeling state.
This is the only obsession and the only devils there are. We are the obsessing entity, and we are the only devil we will ever meet.
Prepare your mind to receive the best that life has to offer.
To feel that we suffer for our mistakes is justice, but to feel that our mistakes are eternal is to be already in the suppositional hell of a false theology.
The intellect is a cold thing and a merely intellectual idea will never stimulate thought in the same manner that a spiritual idea does.
There was a time when a man was so convinced that the world was round that he was determined to prove it.
We may stumble, but always there is that eternal voice, forever whispering within our ear, that thing which causes the eternal quest, that thing which forever sings and sings.
A state of expectancy is a great asset; a state of uncertainty–one moment thinking “perhaps” and the next moment thinking “I don’t know”–will never get desired results.
You can attract only that which you mentally become and feel yourself to be in reality.
Declare the truth by telling yourself that there is nothing to be afraid of, that you no longer entertain any images of fear.
The road to freedom lies not through mysteries or occult performances, but through the intelligent use of natural forces and laws.
It is done to you as you believe.
Success and prosperity are spiritual attributes belonging to all people.
You can attract only that which you mentally become and feel yourself to be in reality.
God gives some more than others because some accept more than others.
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I love this quote:
“You can attract only that which you mentally become and feel yourself to be in reality.”
People, your mind determines reality! It really does. You just need to have faith!
So true! “To feel that we suffer for our mistakes is justice, but to feel that our mistakes are eternal is to be already in the suppositional hell of a false theology.”
This quote really describes the whole situation of the world today! It is…
I really like some of these quotes…I work in an industry where self improvement is a mater of life and death…I’m sure I’ll find some of these very useful.
Thank you. I’m honored to think you may use something you’ve learned here to help others. Namaste.
All of the quotes in this article are really inspiring & thoughtful. Specially this one “To feel that we suffer for our mistakes is justice, but to feel that our mistakes are eternal is to be already in the suppositional hell of a false theology” . Our Mistakes are not eternal, if we start to learn from the mistakes we have done, it will be best for our self development process.