Mary Baker Eddy Quotes

The time for thinkers has come.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Jealousy is the grave of affection.

Spiritual teaching must always be by symbols.

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

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

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

You conquer error by denying its verity.

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.

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

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

Emerge gently from matter into Spirit.

Spring is my sweetheart.

Truth is immortal; error is mortal.

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

Complaint is poverty.

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.

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

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.

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

Truth has no beginning.

Hypocrisy is fatal to religion.

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

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.

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

Ideas are spiritual, harmonious and eternal

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Disease is an image of thought externalized.

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.

Matter and death are mortal illusions.

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

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

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