Faith & Spirit Quote by Ernest Holmes

Holmes folds metaphysics into a sales pitch for meaning: if the universe exists for Gods "self-expression" and "delight", then existence is not an accident to be endured but an artwork to be participated in. The line is doing two jobs at once. It rescues the cosmos from cold mechanism (no indifferent universe here) and it rescues God from dour bookkeeping. "Delight" is the tell: not duty, not judgment, not even love as obligation, but pleasure. That single word tilts theology away from sin-management and toward creative exuberance.

The intent is unmistakably New Thought-era. Holmes, the architect of Religious Science, wrote in a moment when American spirituality was remixing Protestant vocabulary with Emersonian optimism, psychology, and the emerging language of mind-power. His God is less a monarch issuing decrees than a generative principle: the universe as Gods ongoing performance. That framing quietly licenses the central Holmes move: if reality is expression, your thoughts and consciousness matter, perhaps even causally. The quote is an ontological justification for practice.

The subtext also flatters the human listener. If the cosmos is self-expression, then each person can be read as a brushstroke in that expression; creativity, health, and prosperity become spiritual imperatives rather than mere preferences. Critics will hear the danger: "delight" can slide into spiritual consumerism, a cosmic rationale for getting what you want. But the rhetorical power is in its refusal to make existence punitive. Holmes offers a universe that is, at its core, in a good mood and asking you to collaborate.