Mary Baker Eddy Quotes

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In the year 1866, I discovered the Christ Science or divine laws of Life, Truth, and Love, and named my discovery Christian Science

Mary Baker Eddy
Under affliction in the very depths, stop and contemplate what you have to be grateful for.

Mary Baker Eddy
The theory of three person in one God (that is, a personal Trinity or Tri-unity) suggests polytheism, rather than the one ever-present I AM. … Jesus Christ is not God, as Jesus himself declared, but is the Son of God.

Mary Baker Eddy
Right motives give pinions to thought, and strength and freedom to speech and action.

Mary Baker Eddy
The rich in spirit help the poor in one grand brotherhood, all having the same Principle, or Father; and blessed is that man who seeth his brother's need and supplieth it, seeking his own in another's good.

Mary Baker Eddy
When angels visit us, we do not hear the rustle of wings, nor feel the feathery touch of the breast of a dove; but we know their presence by the love they create in our hearts.

Mary Baker Eddy
Who would stand before a blackboard, and pray the Principle of mathematics to work out the problem? The rule is already established, and it is our task to work out the solution.

Mary Baker Eddy
Good thoughts are an impervious armor; clad therewith you are completely shielded from the attacks of error of every sort. And not only yourselves are safe, but all whom your thoughts rest upon are thereby benefited.

Mary Baker Eddy
Give up the belief that mind is, even temporarily, compressed within the skull, and you will quickly become more manly or womanly. You will understand yourself and your Maker better than before.

Mary Baker Eddy
Home is the dearest spot on earth, and it should be the center, though not the boundary, of the affections.

Mary Baker Eddy
Chastity is the cement of civilization and progress. Without it there is no stability in society, and without it one cannot attain the Science of Life.

Mary Baker Eddy
It is contrary to Christian Science to suppose that life is either material or organically spiritual.

Mary Baker Eddy
True prayer is not asking God for love; it is learning to love, and to include all mankind in one affection.

Mary Baker Eddy
A scientific mental method is more sanitary than the use of drugs, and such a mental method produces permanent health.

Mary Baker Eddy
Experience teaches us that we do not always receive the blessings we ask for in prayer.

Mary Baker Eddy
To live and let live without clamor for distinction or recognition; to wait on divine Love; to write truth first on the tablet of one's own heart—this is the sanity and perfection of living and my human ideal.

Mary Baker Eddy
Divine love always has met and always will meet every human need.

Mary Baker Eddy
The recipe for beauty is to have less illusion and more Soul, to retreat from the belief of pain or pleasure in the body into the unchanging calm and glorious freedom of spiritual harmony.

Mary Baker Eddy
Spirit is the real and eternal; matter is the unreal and temporal.

Mary Baker Eddy
Disease is an experience of so-called mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body.

Mary Baker Eddy
Rushing around smartly is no proof of accomplishing much.

Mary Baker Eddy
God is universal; confined to no spot, defined by no dogma, appropriated by no sect.

Mary Baker Eddy
The prayer that reforms the sinner and heals the sick is an absolute faith that all things are possible to God.

Mary Baker Eddy
Literary commercialism is lowering the intellectual standard to accommodate the purse and to meet a frivolous demand for amusement instead of for improvement.

Mary Baker Eddy
Jesus of Nazareth was the most scientific man that ever trod the globe. He plunged beneath the material surface of things, and found the spiritual cause.

Mary Baker Eddy
Is civilization only a higher form of idolatry, that man should bow down to a flesh-brush, to flannels, to baths, diet, exercise, and air?

Mary Baker Eddy
Sorrow has its reward. It never leaves us where it found us.

Mary Baker Eddy
Great mischief comes from attempts to steady other people's altars.

Mary Baker Eddy
Lulled by stupefying illusions, the world is asleep in the cradle of infancy, dreaming away the hours.

Mary Baker Eddy