Mary Baker Eddy Quotes - Page 3

Disease is an experience of mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body. Divine Science takes away this physical sense of discord, just as it removes a sense of moral or mental in-harmony.

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.

Women must think strategically about creating ongoing pressure for change.

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.

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

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

Home is the dearest spot on earth, and it should be the centre, but not the boundary, of the affections.

Complaint is poverty.

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

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

Spiritual teaching must always be by symbols.

Step by step will those who trust Him find that 'God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.'

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.

The time for thinkers has come.

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

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

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

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.

Truth has no beginning.

Emerge gently from matter into Spirit.

If Christianity is not scientific, and Science is not God, then there is no invariable law, and truth becomes an accident.

Health is not a condition of matter, but of Mind; nor can the material senses bear reliable testimony on the subject of health.

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

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.

Error is a supposition that pleasure and pain, that intelligence, substance, life, are existent in matter. Error is neither Mind nor one of Mind's faculties. Error is the contradiction of Truth. Error is a belief without understanding. Error is unreal because untrue. It is that which stemma to be and is not. If error were true, its truth would be error, and we should have a self-evident absurdity -namely, erroneous truth. Thus we should continue to lose the standard of Truth.