Ernest Shurtleff Holmes (1887–1960) was an American New Thought writer, teacher, and religious leader. Drawn to New Thought teachings and a belief in the power of the mind for healing and fulfillment of life, Holmes and his brother Fenwicke started the Religious Science spiritual movement.
Born in Lincoln, Maine, Ernest Holmes was influenced by the Christian Scientist movement. He was also a student of Emma Curtis Hopkins, the founder of New Thought.
Holmes’s first book, Creative Mind, appeared in 1919. His major work, The Science of Mind (1925,) is a summary of his thought and the textbook embodying his perspective on New Thought. In 1927, he founded the Institute of Religious Science and School of Philosophy in Los Angeles and began to train people in his methods.
Some of the Institute’s alumni established churches based on Holmes’s teachings, and, in 1949, he reluctantly agreed to the establishment of a Religious Science denomination. The church now has two branches: the United Church of Religious Science and the smaller Religious Science International.
The religious movement Holmes began flourished over the next decades. He repeatedly moved his Sunday lectures into larger facilities. In 1949, he began the This Thing Called Life radio show.
Holmes also authored many other metaphysical books and was the founder of Science of Mind magazine, which has been in continuous publication since 1927.
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Spirit is all there is.
I am the microcosm of the whole of Spirit.
Therefore my resources are boundless.
—Ernest Holmes
It is necessary for us to understand that the only Active Principle is Spirit.
—Ernest Holmes
Begin to act from your dominion. Declare the truth by telling yourself that there is nothing to be afraid of, that you no longer entertain any images of fear.
—Ernest Holmes
Topics: Fear, Age, Truth
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 Holmes
The Divine Plan is one of Freedom. The inherent nature of man is ever seeking to express itself in terms of freedom, because freedom is the birthright of every living soul.
—Ernest Holmes
Topics: Soul, Rent, Nature, Freedom
Prayer is a thought, a belief, a feeling, arising within the mind of the one praying.
—Ernest Holmes
Topics: Feelings
A state of expectancy is a great assetl; a state of uncertainty—one moment thinking “perhaps” and the next moment thinking “I don’t know”—will never get desired results.
—Ernest Holmes
Topics: Results, Life, Change, Thinking, Desire
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.
—Ernest Holmes
Topics: Sin
Life is ever giving of Itself. We must receive, utilize and extend the gift. Success and prosperity are spiritual attributes belonging to all people.
—Ernest Holmes
Topics: People, Prosperity, Giving, Success, Life
Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.
—Ernest Holmes
Topics: Attitude, Positive Attitudes, Optimism, Living
We cannot lead a choiceless life. Every day, every moment, every second, there is a choice. If it were not so, we would not be individuals.
—Ernest Holmes
It is done to you as you believe.
—Ernest Holmes
Topics: Believe, Life, Change
There is but one ultimate Power. This Power is to each one what he is to it.
—Ernest Holmes
Topics: God, Faith
You are more than you appear to be -Life is greater than you have ever known it-The best is yet to come.
—Ernest Holmes
If you never blocked Life, it would always flow through you as love, harmony, happiness and success!.
—Ernest Holmes
It is impossible for a man to conceal himself. In every act, word or gesture he stands revealed as he is, and not as he would have himself appear to be. From the Universe, nothing is or can be hidden.
—Ernest Holmes
You can attract only that which you mentally become and feel yourself to be in reality.
—Ernest Holmes
Not failure, but low aim, is crime.
—Ernest Holmes
Topics: Failures, Mistakes
Never limit your view of life by any past experience.
—Ernest Holmes
Prepare your mind to receive the best that life has to offer.
—Ernest Holmes
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