Ernest Holmes Quotes

Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.

Even as empiricism is winning the mind, transcendentalism continues to win the heart.

If you're so afraid of your imagination that you stifle it, how are you going to know God? How can you imagine heaven?

Reason is a fine thing, but it is not the only thing available to a writer. It's just part of the arsenal of many things available to a storyteller. Revelation, for example.

For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.

If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work.

My reason nourishes my faith and my faith my reason.

Faith is not contrary to reason.

I think that the greatest gift God ever gave man is not the gift of sight but the gift of vision. Sight is a function of the eyes, but vision is a function of the heart.

It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover.

Faith is spiritualized imagination.

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.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason and intellect has intended us to forego their use and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them.

I cannot have God in my heart if he is not in my head. Before I can believe in, I must believe that.

Perhaps pure reason without heart would never have thought of God.

Faith isn't an act of intelligence, it's an act of imagination.

The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason: The Morning Daylight appears plainer when you put out your Candle.

The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

Faith is not a rational thing, and yet to understand the universe, rationality alone will not give it to us. Our understanding of the universe must transcend the rational.

Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

Reason is the enemy of faith.

Reason is God's crowning gift to man.

All grand thoughts come from the heart.