Mary Baker Eddy Quotes

Life is real, and death is the illusion.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

In spring, nature is like a thrifty housewife ... taking up the white carpets and putting down the green ones.

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

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

The time for thinkers has come.

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

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.

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

The periods of spiritual ascension are the days and seasons of Mind's creation, in which beauty, sublimity, purity, and holiness - yea, the divine nature - appear in man and the universe never to disappear. -Mary Baker Eddy
(SH 509:24)

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.

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.

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

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

The mariner will have dominion over the atmosphere and the great deep, over the fish of the sea and the fowls of the air.

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.

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

Spring is my sweetheart ...

jealousy is the grave of affection

Spiritual teaching must always be by symbols.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Truth has no beginning.

Reject hatred without hating.

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

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

You conquer error by denying its verity.

Hypocrisy is fatal to religion.

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

We should master fear, instead of cultivating it.

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

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.

True prayer is not asking God for love; it is learning to love, and to include all mankind in one affection. Prayer is the utilization of the love wherewith He loves us.

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 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.

Father-Mother is the name for Deity ...

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.

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

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

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

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

No power can withstand divine Love.

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

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.

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.

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

Emerge gently from matter into Spirit.

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.

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

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.

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 is immortal; error is mortal.

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

Consistent prayer is the desire to do right.

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.

Give to it the place in our institutions of learning now occupied by scholastic theology and physiology, and it will 142 eradicate sickness and sin in less time than the old systems, devised for subduing them, have required for self-establishment and propagation.

Complaint is poverty.

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