Book Title: Prosperity by Charles Fillmore

Fillmore, Charles (1854–1948) Protestant religious leader, businessman; born near St. Cloud, Minn. The son of a merchant who traded with Indians, he worked as a clerk and muleteer and speculated in real estate in Oklahoma, Colorado, and Texas before turning to religious matters in the late 1880s. With his wife Myrtle he launched the Unity movement, based on a practical Christian doctrine they claimed could overcome physical, mental and financial problems. He wrote a series of books explaining the beliefs of Unity; one book, Prosperity, argued that Christianity fostered business success and that the Great Depression was the consequence of negative thinking.

Book Title: Prosperity by Charles Fillmore

You are in possession of everything necessary for the demonstration of prosperity and can undertake it with the utmost confidence and faith. You can draw on the omnipresent substance throughout eternity, yet it will never grow less, for it consists of ideas. Through thinking you take some of the ideas into your mind and they begin to become manifest in your affairs. (p108)

Get into the prosperity thought and you will demonstrate prosperity. Cultivate the habit of thinking about abundance everywhere present, not only in the forms of imagination but in forms without. (p88)

The lesson for us should be to build our prosperity on the inner substance. (p 96)

We are not studying prosperity to become rich but to bring out those characteristics that are fundamental to prosperity. We must learn to develop the faculty that will bring prosperity and the character that is not spoiled by prosperity. (p161)

If you know how to take hold of the universal substance and mold it to your uses, you will be prosperous. (p 57)

It is your birthright to be prosperous, regardless of who you are or where you may be. (p87)

Poverty or Prosperity, it all depends on you. All that the Father has is yours, but you alone are responsible for the relationship of the Father's good to your life. Through conscious recognition of your oneness with the Father and His abundance you draw the living substance into visible supply. (p 68)

Hold that you are master with the Master, one with all-providing substance and that your prosperity runneth over. (p75)

We do not have to wait until we have fully entered the kingdom or attain a complete understanding of Spirit before prosperity begins to manifest, but we do have to seek, to turn the attention in that direction. Then things begin to be added unto us. (p38)

Whether we make a large or a small gift, let us make it with largeness of cheer and joy, even of hilarity, remembering that God loveth a "hilarious" giver. (p158)

Supply may seem to come through outer channels, but your real success depends on your inner hold on prosperity realization. Be thankful for supply that comes through outer channels, but do not limit God's giving to any one channel. Look unto Him and be prosperous. (p 54-55)

Those who are born and bred to riches usually have plenty all their life even though they never make the effort to earn a dollar for themselves. This is because the ideas of plenty are so interwoven into their thought atmosphere that they are a very part of themselves. They have the prosperity consciousness, in which there is no idea of any condition under which the necessities of life could be lacking. (p88-89)

All those who place their prosperity on possessions alone have a purely material prosperity which, though it may seem great for a time, will vanish, because it is founded on the changing of the external and has no root within consciousness. (p107)

You should expect prosperity when you keep the prosperity law. Therefore, be thankful for every blessing that you gain and as greatly grateful for every demonstration as for an unexpected treasure dropped in your lap. This will keep your heart fresh; for true thanksgiving may be likened to rain falling upon ready soil, refreshing it and increasing its productiveness. (p 105)

The anxious thought must be eliminated and the perfect abandonment of the child of nature assumed, and when to this attitude you add realization of unlimited resources, you have fulfilled the divine law of prosperity. (p91)