Mary Baker Eddy Quotes

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Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.

Mary Baker Eddy
To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, to-day is big with blessings.

Mary Baker Eddy
You embrace your body in your thought, and you should delineate upon it thoughts of health, not of sickness.

Mary Baker Eddy
To prevent disease or to cure it, the power of Truth, of divine Spirit, must break down the dream of the material senses.

Mary Baker Eddy
God is incorporeal, divine, supreme, infinite Mind, Spirit, Soul, Principle, life, Truth, Love.

Mary Baker Eddy
Sickness is a belief, which must be annihilated by the divine Mind.

Mary Baker Eddy
Spirit, God, gathers unformed thoughts into their proper channels, and unfolds these thoughts, even as He opens the petals of a holy purpose in order that the purpose may appear.

Mary Baker Eddy
As in Jesus' time, so today, tyranny and pride need to be whipped out of the temple, and humility and divine Science to be welcomed in.

Mary Baker Eddy
Drugs, cataplasms, and whiskey are stupid substitutes for the dignity and potency of divine mind and its efficacy to heal.

Mary Baker Eddy
The sharp experiences of belief in the supposititious life of matter, as well as our disappointments and ceaseless woes, turn us like tired children to the arms of divine Love.

Mary Baker Eddy
The realm of the real is Spirit. The unlikeness of Spirit is matter, and the opposite of the real is not divine, it is a human concept. Matter is an error of statement. This error in the premise leads to errors in the conclusion in every statement into which it enters. Nothing we can say or believe regarding matter is immortal, for matter is temporal and is therefore a mortal phenomenon, a human concept, sometimes beautiful, always erroneous.

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Disease... can carry its ill-effects no farther than mortal mind maps out the way.

Mary Baker Eddy
We should examine ourselves and learn what is the affection and purpose of the heart, for in this way only can we learn what we honestly are.

Mary Baker Eddy
Our proportionate admission of the claims of good or of evil determines the harmony of our existence, - our health, our longevity, and our Christianity.

Mary Baker Eddy
Love enriches the nature, enlarging, purifying, and elevating it.

Mary Baker Eddy
To infinite, ever present Love, all is Love, and there is no error, no sin sickness, nor death.

Mary Baker Eddy
I love to observe Christmas in quietude, humility, benevolence, charity, letting good will towards man, eloquent silence, prayer, and praise express my conception of Truth's appearing.

Mary Baker Eddy
Every law of matter or the body, supposed to govern man,is rendered null and void by the law of Life, God.

Mary Baker Eddy
A wicked mortal is not the idea of God. He is little else than the expression of error. To suppose that sin, lust, hatred, envy, hypocrisy, revenge, have life abiding in them, is a terrible mistake. Life and Life's idea, Truth and Truth's idea, never make men sick, sinful, or mortal.

Mary Baker Eddy
The physical universe expresses the conscious and unconscious thoughts of mortals.

Mary Baker Eddy
What we most need is the prayer of fervent desire for growth in grace, expressed in patience, meekness, love, and good deeds.

Mary Baker Eddy
Health is not a condition of matter, but of Mind...

Mary Baker Eddy
Nothing save divine power is capable of doing so much for man as he can for himself.

Mary Baker Eddy
There is too much animal courage in society and not sufficient moral courage.

Mary Baker Eddy
Father-Mother is the name for Deity, which indicates His tender relationship to His spiritual creation.

Mary Baker Eddy
Christian Science explains all cause and effect as mental, not physical.

Mary Baker Eddy
Sacrifice self to bless one another, even as God has blessed you. Forget self in laboring for mankind...

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One sacrifice, however great, is insufficient to pay the debt of sin. The atonement requires constant self-immolation on the sinner's part. That God's wrath should be vented upon His beloved Son, is divinely unnatural. Such a theory is man-made. … The material blood of Jesus was no more efficacious to cleanse from sin when it was shed upon 'the accursed tree,' than when it was flowing in his veins as he went daily about his Father's business. … His disciples believed Jesus to be dead while he was hidden in the sepulchre, whereas he was alive.

Mary Baker Eddy
Prayer is not to be used as a confessional, to cancel sin.

Mary Baker Eddy
In spring, nature is like a thrifty housewife... taking up the white carpets and putting down the green ones.

Mary Baker Eddy