Ernest Holmes Quotes

Faith is a mental attitude that is so convinced of its own idea - which so completely accepts it - that any contradiction is unthinkable and impossible.

Ernest Holmes

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• Contradiction
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• Faith is a mental attitude that is so convinced of its own idea - which so completely accepts it - that any contradiction is unthinkable and impossible.

  

  Ernest Holmes
  • Faith
  • Convinced
  • Contradiction