Dr. J. A. Holmes Quotes

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

Young women especially have something invested in being nice people, and it's only when you have children that you realize you're not a nice person at all, but generally a selfish bully.

I have some road rage inside of me. Traffic, especially in L.A., is a pet peeve of mine.

Man has his will, but woman has her way.

Reason means truth and those who are not governed by it take the chance that someday the sunken fact will rip the bottom out of their boat.

Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.

Heaven is within us, and we experience it to the degree that we become conscious of it.

You are more than you appear to be - Life is greater than you have ever known it - The best is yet to come.

Your life is not your own. Keep your hands off it.

Destroying species is like tearing pages out of an unread book, written in a language humans hardly know how to read, about the place where they live.

On the road to equality there is no better place for blacks to detour around American values than in forgoing its example in the treatment of its women and the organization of its family.

I came from a dirt farm, now I'm filthy rich.

Life is not just something to be endured. It is to be lived in joy, in a fullness without limit (p.82)

Beware how you take away hope from any human being.

Abundance is mine. I cannot be deprived of my supply. The trees do not lack for leaves, nor do the flowers fail to bloom.

God is all there is - God includes everything, all possibility and all action, for Spirit is the invisible essence and substance of all form.

From no source has the author drawn more conspicuously than from the sacred Scriptures. From all these extracts from the Bible I make no apology.

Like attracts like and we attract just what we are in mind.

To the soul that knows its own divinity, all else must gravitate

We have to shift our emphasis from economic efficiency and materialism towards a sustainable quality of life and to healing of our society, of our people and our ecological systems.

Reason may be the lever, but sentiment gives you the fulcrum and the place to stand on if you want to move the world.

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

Pretty, and you may be talented, but nobody will remember that if you're mean.

Thoughts of lack manifest as limitation. Thoughts of abundance manifest as success and happiness. Failure and success are but two ends of the same stick.

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

No person whose entire time is spent in the contemplation of limitation can demonstrate freedom from such limitation.

. . . man is just what he thinks himself to be . . . He will attract to himself what the thinks most about. He can learn to govern his own destiny when he learns to control his thoughts.

Every thought has a consequence. And every experience has a causative thought behind it.

The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic.

Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer.

All fighters are prostitutes and all promoters are pimps

It’s every man’s business to see justice done.

Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.

The thought of judgment, criticism and condemnation must, in time, operate against the one who sets it into motion.

I would much rather live a life of purpose than one in which I might have other things but not that.

We already live in a Perfect Universe, but It needs to be seen mentally before It can become a part of our experience.

When you find what you love, you do it. That's it.

A river is more than an amenity, it is a treasure.

For my part I think it is a less evil that some criminals should escape, than that the government should play an ignoble part.

It is done to you as you believe.

What I really want out of life is to discover something new, something mankind didn’t know was possible to do.

We all keep dreaming, and luckily, dreams come true.

There is a little plant called reverence in the corner of my soul's garden, which I love to have watered once a week.

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.

Life externalizes at the level of our thought.

Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?

Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.

A realization of the Presence of God is the most powerful healing agency known to the mind of man.

It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.

We are born to create, and we can't help it. Why is that? Because God, the great Creator, is in us.