Mary Baker Eddy Quotes

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

Reason is the most active human faculty.

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

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

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.

Sickness is an illusion, to be annihilated by Science.

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

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

We should master fear, instead of cultivating it.

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

Women must think strategically about creating ongoing pressure for change.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Love inspires, illummines, designates and leads the way.

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

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.

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

Mankind thinks either too much or too little of sin.

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

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.

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.

Rushing around smartly is no proof of accomplishing much.

Life is real, and death is the illusion.

To infinite, ever present Love, all is Love, and there is no error, no sin sickness, nor death.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Father-Mother is the name for Deity.

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

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.

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.

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.

We know that a statement proved to be good must be oorrect. New thoughts are constantly obtaining the floor. These two theories - that all is matter, or that all is Mind-will dispute the ground, until one is acknowledged to be the victor. Discussing his campaign, General Grant said: "I propose to fight it out on this line, if it takes all summer." Science says: All is Mind and Mind's idea. You must fight it out on this line. Matter can afford you no aid.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

A wrong motive involves defeat.