Mary Baker Eddy Quotes

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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
Sickness, sin, and death, being inharmonious, do not originate in God nor belong to His government.

Mary Baker Eddy
I will love, if another hates. I will gain a balance on the side of
good, my true being. This alone gives me the forces of
God wherewith to overcome all error.

Mary Baker Eddy
God gives you His spiritual ideas, and in turn, they give you daily supplies. Never ask for tomorrow: it is enough that divine Love is an ever-present help; and if you wait, never doubting, you will have all you need every moment.

Mary Baker Eddy
Here comes the question, How do drugs, hygiene and animal magnetism heal? It may be affirmed that they do not heal, but only relieve suffering temporarily, exchanging one disease for another.

Mary Baker Eddy
The human sigh for peace and love is answered and compensated by divine love.

Mary Baker Eddy
When the heart speaks, however simple the words, its language is always acceptable to those who have hearts.

Mary Baker Eddy
The lives of great men and women are miracles of patience and perseverance.

Mary Baker Eddy
If materialistic knowledge is power, it is not wisdom. It is but a blind force.

Mary Baker Eddy
All my work, all my efforts, all my prayers and tears are for humanity, and the spread of peace and love among mankind.

Mary Baker Eddy
A little more grace, a motive made pure, a few truths tenderly told, a heart softened, a character subdued, a life consecrated, would restore the right action of the mental mechanism, and make manifest the movement of body and soul in accord with God.

Mary Baker Eddy
To love and to be loved, one must do good to others. The inevitable condition whereby to become blessed, is to bless others.

Mary Baker Eddy
Two points of danger beset mankind; namely, making sin seem either too large or too little.

Mary Baker Eddy
Angels are pure thoughts from God, winged with Truth and Love.

Mary Baker Eddy
The admission to one's self that man is God's own likeness sets man free to master the infinite idea.

Mary Baker Eddy
Remember, thou canst be brought into no condition, be it ever so severe, where Love has not been before thee and where its tender lesson is not awaiting thee. Therefore despair not nor murmur, for that which seeketh to save, to heal, and to deliver, will guide thee, if thou seekest this guidance.

Mary Baker Eddy
The devotion of thought to an honest achievement makes the achievement possible. Exceptions only confirm this rule, proving that failure is occasioned by a too feeble faith.

Mary Baker Eddy
Man and woman as coexistent and eternal with God forever reflect, in glorified quality, the infinite Father-Mother God.

Mary Baker Eddy
I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art.

Mary Baker Eddy
Error tills its own barren soil and buries itself in the ground, since ground and dust stand for nothingness.

Mary Baker Eddy
Sickness is an illusion, to be annihilated by Science...

Mary Baker Eddy
Every luminary in the constellation of human greatness, like the stars, comes out in the darkness to shine with the reflected light of God.

Mary Baker Eddy
Sin brought death, and death will disappear with the disappearance of sin.

Mary Baker Eddy
Hold thought steadfastly to the enduring, the good, and the true, and you will bring these into your experience proportionately to their occupancy of your thoughts.

Mary Baker Eddy
All successful individuals have become such by hard work; by improving moments before they pass into hours, and hours that other people may occupy in the pursuit of pleasure.

Mary Baker Eddy
This is the doctrine of Christian Science: that divine Love cannot be deprived of its manifestation, or object; that joy cannot be turned into sorrow, for sorrow is not the master of joy; that good can never produce evil; that matter can never produce mind nor life result in death. The perfect man - governed by God, his perfect Principle - is sinless and eternal.

Mary Baker Eddy
Audible prayer can never do the works of spiritual understanding, which regenerates; but silent prayer, watchfulness, and devout obedience enable us to follow Jesus example. Long prayers, superstition, and creeds clip the strong pinions of love, and clothe religion in human forms. Whatever materializes worship hinders man's spiritual growth and keeps him from demonstrating his power over error.

Mary Baker Eddy