Dr. J. A. Holmes Quotes

ANYONE may become a revealer of Truth who lives in close contact with the indwelling God.

Don't be 'consistent,' but be simply true.

Whatever the mind holds to and firmly believes in, forms a new pattern of though within its creative mold, as whatever thought is held in the mind tends to take outward form in new creations.

Mike Tyson always had a big heart, but one of his problems is that he's short. And he's got kind of a personal attitude. But that don't make him a great fighter.

Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.

If I were dying, my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.

Divine Intelligence working through me always knows just what I need and always supplies it when I need it.

The manifest universe is the body of God ... all people are incarnations of the One Spirit.

I think people realise that I'm happy with what I've achieved.

When you cross the line, it is such a wonderful feeling it's hard to describe.

Old age is like an opium dream. Nothing seems real except the unreal.

The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power. The prize of the general is not a bigger tent, but command.

I never really look back. I just approach life (taking) it one day at a time. I'm just really grateful.

Within us is the unborn possibility of limitless experience. Ours is the privilege of giving birth to it!

Everyone told me you can't build a major tech company in Canada. There just aren't enough investors or engineers or top-level managers. Each day, I'm driven to prove them wrong.

The mark of a civilized man is his willingness to re-examine his most cherished beliefs.

Lord, bid war's trumpet cease; Fold the whole earth in peace.

The splendors of earth do not simply lie in their roles as human resources, supports of culture, or stimulators of experience.

A man's opinions are generally of much more value than his arguments.

With every pill we have prescribed for us we should also be given a creative prayer, a suggested way to correct our destructive patterns of thought.

I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.

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

Now I'm free of him and I'm light as a feather. There's no weight holding me down; I'm ready to spread my wings and fly.

[My] worst habit: Drinking too much Budweiser when I get angry.

We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible.

The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.

The one seeking to demonstrate the power of spiritual realization in everyday affairs should believe in Divine guidance... and that everything in life is controlled by love, harmony, and peace.

For the simplicity on this side of complexity, I wouldn't give you a fig. But for the simplicity on the other side of complexity, for that I would give you anything I have.

The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence.

Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.

Apology is only egotism wrong side out.

There is no reason to repeat bad history.

A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.

The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.

It's hard being black. You ever been black? I was black once - when I was poor.

Lawyers spend their professional careers shoveling smoke.

Let the inner ear listen to the voice of truth that is always speaking.

Since each soul is some part of the Whole, it is impossible that any soul can be lost.

A child's hand in yours - what tenderness and power it arouses. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength.

simply to ask a blessing upon one's circumstances, whatever they are, is somehow to improve them, and to tap some mysterious source of energy and joy.

We are thinking, willing, knowing, conscious centers of Life. We are surrounded by, immersed in, and there is flowing through us, a creative Something ... call It what you will.

We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.

You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A man is or may be young to after sixty, and not old before eighty.

It is necessary for us to understand that the only Active Principle is Spirit.

Any one can heal who believes that he can, and who will take the time to put that belief in motion through the Law.

To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad.

For him in vain the envious seasons roll Who bears eternal summer in his soul.

I have always sought to guide the future-but it is very lonely sometimes trying to play God.

And just then he realized in a flash that men have only this sad knowledge with which to heal themselves: when you lose life, you grow wise. But that is better than maiming life to hold it.

I'm not the easiest person to live with. I'm kind of a slob. So for me to consider a roommate, it would have to be one of my sisters or something.