Eric Butterworth
Eric Butterworth was Senior Minister of The Unity Center of New York City from 1961 to 2003. He made a peaceful transition into the Flow of Eternal Life on Thursday, April 17, 2003. Eric was considered a legend and spiritual icon in the Unity Movement. We will never know the countless number of lives that have been changed by applying the Spiritual Principles taught by Eric Butterworth. The author of 16 best-selling books on metaphysical spirituality, a gifted theologian, philosopher, and lecturer, Eric was a highly respected New Age pioneer and innovator of New Thought, whose life was dedicated to helping people to help themselves. Eric has often been referred to as a "Twentieth Century Emerson."
19 Quotes
Attitudes are the forerunners of conditions.
— Eric Butterworth
We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.
— Eric Butterworth
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
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
Where you are in consciousness has everything to do with what you see in experience.
— Eric Butterworth
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
Your fortune is not something to find but to unfold.
— Eric Butterworth
The one thing that a fish can never find is water; and the one thing that man can never find is God.
— Eric Butterworth
God can only do for you what He can do through you.
— Eric Butterworth
Fundamentalists believe Jesus was God becoming man. I believe that Jesus was man becoming God.
— Eric Butterworth
Don't go through life, grow through life.
— Eric Butterworth
While many people are trying to be in tune with infinite, what they really are is in tune with the indefinite.
— Eric Butterworth
Our job is not to set things right but to see them right.
— Eric Butterworth
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
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
One of the best things to do sometimes is simply to be.
— Eric Butterworth
SIN: Self-Inflicted Nonsense
— Eric Butterworth
I am not what I think. I am thinking what I think.
— Eric Butterworth
Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.
— Eric Butterworth