Charles Fillmore Quotes

d. 1948 United States

Charles Sherlock Fillmore (August 22 1854 – July 5 1948) founded Unity, a church within the New Thought movement, with his wife, Myrtle Fillmore, in 1889. He became known as an American mystic.

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We need never look for universal peace on this earth until men stop killing animals for food.

No extended definition of good is necessary to those who follow Jesus; even converted savages understand good and do it.

Mysteries Of John (1946)

Therefore, in the light of the Truth that God is love, and that Jesus came to make his love manifest in the world, we cannot believe it is his will for men to eat meat, or to do anything else that would cause suffering to the innocent and helpless.

The universal desire among awakened Christians to love God and man is part of the law constantly operating through man when he finds his right relation to God.

Mysteries Of John (1946)

All growth and unfoldment from atom to sun is based upon this law of soul urge. What you earnestly desire and persistently affirm will be yours, if you "faint not."

Teach Us to Pray with Cora Fillmore (1941)

Men personalize good and evil in a multiplicity of gods and devils, but Truth students follow Jesus in recognizing the supreme Spirit in man as the "one God and Father of all."

Mysteries Of John (1946)

We have been so persistently taught that prayer consists in asking God for some human need that we have lost sight of our spiritual identity and have become a race of praying beggars.

Teach Us to Pray with Cora Fillmore (1941)

Jesus told His followers that when they were gathered in that upper room in Jerusalem the Holy Spirit would descend upon them with power; and they were transformed from ignorant men into linguists of unbelievable ability.

Mysteries Of John (1946)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Charles Fillmore (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.