Eric Butterworth (1916–2003) was a best-selling author of 16 books and a prominent leader in the Unity and New Thought movements, rose to popularity with his inspiring messages of personal renewal and positive prayer.
Your fortune is not something to find but to unfold.
—Eric Butterworth
Topics: Fortune
The great piano virtuoso Paderewski was once playing before an audience of the rich and the royal. After a brilliant performance, an elegant lady waxed ecstatic over the great artist. She said, “Ah Maestro, you are a genius!” Paderewski tartly replied, “Ah yes, madam, but before I was a genius I was a clod!” What he was saying was that his present acclaim was not handed to him on a silver platter. He, too, was once a little boy laboriously practicing his scales. And even at his peak, behind every brilliant performance there were countless hours of practice and preparation.
—Eric Butterworth
Topics: Act, Genius, Yin, Great, Practice, Preparation, Labor, Rich
Evil, and evil spirits, devils and devil possession, are the outgrowth of man’s inadequate consciousness of God. We must avoid thinking of evil as a thing in itself-a force that works against man or, against God, if you will.
—Eric Butterworth
Topics: Evil
There is no such thing as a lack of faith. We all have plenty of faith, it’s just that we have faith in the wrong things. We have faith in what can’t be done rather than what can be done. We have faith in lack rather than abundance but there is no lack of faith. Faith is a law.
—Eric Butterworth
Topics: Faith
Our job is not to set things right but to see them right.
—Eric Butterworth
Topics: Jobs, Work, Vision
I am not what I think. I am thinking what I think.
—Eric Butterworth
Topics: Thought, Thoughts, Thinking
While many people are trying to be in tune with infinite, what they really are is in tune with the indefinite.
—Eric Butterworth
Attitudes are the forerunners of conditions.
—Eric Butterworth
Topics: Attitude
Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.
—Eric Butterworth
Topics: Work
Prosperity is not just having things. It is the consciousness that attracts the things. Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just having money or things. Poverty is a way of living and thinking, and not just a lack of money or things.
—Eric Butterworth
Topics: Prosperity, Success & Failure
One of the best things to do sometimes is simply to be.
—Eric Butterworth
Topics: Identity
There is only one way in which you can “change your luck” and that is by altering your thoughts.
—Eric Butterworth
Topics: Luck, Thoughts, Change
The goal should not be to make money or acquire things, but to achieve the consciousness through which the substance will flow forth when and as you need it.
—Eric Butterworth
Topics: Money, Achieve
Don’t go through life, grow through life.
—Eric Butterworth
Topics: Growth
The innermost essence of my being…is fearless; it is immune to criticism; it does not fear any challenge.
—Eric Butterworth
Topics: Spirit, Fear, Spiritual
We don’t change what we are, we change what we think what we are.
—Eric Butterworth
Topics: Change
Seeing is not believing. Believing is seeing! You see things, not as they are, but as you are.
—Eric Butterworth
Topics: Spiritual, Spirit
In an orderly universe, there is simply no way in which one can get something for nothing.
—Eric Butterworth
Topics: Universe
Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It’s a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.
—Eric Butterworth
Affluence = abundant flow.
—Eric Butterworth
Topics: Spiritual, Spirit
It is consciousness that sets all limits of life, if there are any limits.
—Eric Butterworth
Topics: Spiritual, Life, Spirit
There is only one way by which you can achieve prosperity. It is to take charge of your mind.
—Eric Butterworth
Topics: Achieve, Mind, Prosperity
God can only do for you what He can do through you.
—Eric Butterworth
Topics: God
SIN: Self-Inflicted Nonsense
—Eric Butterworth
Topics: Sin
The one thing that a fish can never find is water; and the one thing that man can never find is God.
—Eric Butterworth
Topics: God
In studying mathematics or simply using a mathematical principle, if we get the wrong answer in sort of algebraic equation, we do not suddenly feel that there is an anti-mathematical principle that is luring us into the wrong answers.
—Eric Butterworth
Topics: Mathematics
Faith is expectancy. You do not receive what you want; you do not receive what you pray for, not even what you say you have faith in. You will always receive what you actually expect.
—Eric Butterworth
Where you are in consciousness has everything to do with what you see in experience.
—Eric Butterworth
Topics: Experience