Mary Baker Eddy Quotations

To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, today is big with blessings.

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.

Health is not a condition of matter, but of Mind.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Spirit is the real and eternal; matter is the unreal and temporal.

Each successive period of progress is a period more humane and spiritual. The only logical conclusion is that all is Mind and its manifestation, from the rolling of worlds, in the most subtle ether, to a potato-patch.

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

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

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.

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.

There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter. All is infinite Mind, and its infinite manifestation, for God is All in All. Spirit is immortal Truth; Matter is mortal error

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

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.

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.

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.

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

People think that all cameramen do is point the camera at things, but it's a heck of a lot more complicated than that.

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.

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

We should master fear, instead of cultivating it.

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

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

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

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.

Reject hatred without hating.

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

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

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

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.

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 lives of great men and women are miracles of patience and perseverance.

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.

Love enriches the nature, enlarging, purifying, and elevating it.

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.

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

Truth has no beginning.

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.

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

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

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

There should be painless progression, attended by life and peace....Mortals will some day assert their freedom in the name of Almighty God....Dropping their present beliefs, they will recognize harmony and as the spiritual reality and discord as the material unreality. Chapter VII pp. 224 and 228 Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures

A wrong motive involves defeat.

In the midst of depressing care and labor I turn constantly to divine Love for guidance, and find rest.

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.

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

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.

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

Jealousy is the grave of affection.

No power can withstand divine Love.

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

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

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.

Your birthday is a special day, May it bring you love and cheer It gives a chance for me to say, Happy birthday every year

The age looks steadily to the redressing of wrong, to the righting of every form of error and injustice; and a tireless and prying philanthropy, which is almost omniscient, is one of the most hopeful characteristics of the time.

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.

Truth is immortal; error is mortal.

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

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

Emerge gently from matter into Spirit.

God is Mind, and God is infinite; hence all is Mind.

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

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.

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

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

The time for thinkers has come.

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?

Philanthropy is loving, and ameliorative, revolutionary; it wakens lofty desires, new possibilities, achievements, and energies; ... it touches thought to spiritual issues, systematizes action, and insures success.

Rushing around smartly is no proof of accomplishing much.

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

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

Prayer is not to be used as a confessional, to cancel sin. Such an error would impede true religion. Sin is forgiven only as it is destroyed by Christ - Truth and Light.

Life is real, and death is the illusion.

Father-Mother is the name for Deity ...

... sickness is an illusion, to be annihilated by Science ...

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.

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

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

Ideas are spiritual, harmonious and eternal

Love inspires, illummines, designates and leads the way.

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

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

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

Whatever materializes worship hinders man's spiritual growth and keeps him from demonstrating his power over error.

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

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

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

If God causes man to be sick, sickness must be good, and its opposite, health, must be evil, for all that He makes is good and will stand forever. If the transgression of God's law produces sickness, it is right to be sick; and we cannot if we would, and should not if we could, annul the decrees of wisdom. It is the transgression of a belief of mortal mind, not of a law of matter nor of divine Mind, which causes the belief of sickness. The remedy is Truth, not matter,--the truth that disease is unreal.

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.

Sin makes its own hell, and goodness its own heaven.

Complaint is poverty.

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.

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

It requires courage to utter truth; for the higher Truth lifts her voice, the louder will error scream, until its inarticulate sound is forever silenced in oblivion