Charles Sherlock Fillmore (1854–1948) was an American Christian and New Thought mystic and spiritual writer. He founded the Unity Church, a church within the New Thought movement, and became known as an American mystic for his contributions to spiritualist interpretations of biblical Scripture.
Born in St. Cloud, Minnesota, Fillmore was a real-estate businessman in Pueblo, Colorado. After his wife, Myrtle Page Fillmore, was cured of her tuberculosis by what she thought was spiritual healing, Fillmore studied world religions, spiritual healing, and the link between science and religion.
Influenced by E. B. Weeks, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emma Curtis Hopkins, and Mary Baker Eddy and inspired by Transcendentalism, Christian Science, and New Thought movements, the Fillmores launched the Unity Church in 1889 in Kansas City, Missouri.
Fillmore’s works include Christian Healing (1909,) The Twelve Powers of Man (1930,) Prosperity (1936,) Jesus Christ Heals (1939,) Atom-Smashing Power of Mind (1949,) and The Revealing Word (1959.)
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All causes are essentially mental, and whosoever comes into daily contact with a high order of thinking must take on some of it.
—Charles Fillmore
Topics: Self-talk, Confidence
Every man who accomplishes things sees first in his mind what he wishes to do. He puts away all doubt. It makes no difference how small or how large the thing you want to do may be; if you have an unlimited confidence in your ability to do it, you will do it.
—Charles Fillmore
Topics: Vision
Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power of ideas.
—Charles Fillmore
Topics: Ideas
It is the law of Spirit that we must be that which we would draw to us. If we would draw to us love, we must be love, be loving and kind; if we would have peace and harmony in our environment, we must establish it within ourselves.
—Charles Fillmore
We shall serve for the joy of serving, prosperity shall flow to us and through us in unending streams of plenty.
—Charles Fillmore
Topics: Service
We must learn to let go, to give up, to make room for the things we have prayed for and desired.
—Charles Fillmore
Topics: Discipline
It is the childlike mind that finds the kingdom.
—Charles Fillmore
Topics: Simplicity
Words are also seeds, and when dropped into the invisible spiritual substance, they grow and bring forth after their kind
—Charles Fillmore
Topics: Words
We increase whatever we praise. The whole creation responds to praise, and is glad.
—Charles Fillmore
Topics: Praise
It is a sin to be poor.
—Charles Fillmore
Topics: Poverty
Here is a mental treatment guaranteed to cure every ill that flesh is heir to: sit for half an hour every night and mentally forgive everyone against whom you have any ill will or antipathy.
—Charles Fillmore
Topics: Forgiveness
The value of all service lies in the spirit in which you serve and not in the importance or magnitude of the service. Even the lowliest task or deed is made holy, joyous, and prosperous when it is filled with love.
—Charles Fillmore
Topics: Attitude
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