Mary Baker Eddy Quotes

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

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

Complaint is poverty.

Ideas are spiritual, harmonious and eternal

Jealousy is the grave of affection.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Matter and death are mortal illusions.

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

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

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

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

Emerge gently from matter into Spirit.

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

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

A wrong motive involves defeat.

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

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

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

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

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

Truth is immortal; error is mortal.

Sickness is an illusion, to be annihilated by Science.

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

Spring is my sweetheart.

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

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 physical universe expresses the conscious and unconscious thoughts of mortals.

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

Consistent prayer is the desire to do right.

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.

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

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

Disease is an image of thought externalized.

Rushing around smartly is no proof of accomplishing much.

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.

Reason is the most active human faculty.

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

Life is real, and death is the illusion.

Hypocrisy is fatal to religion.

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

Mankind thinks either too much or too little of sin.

You conquer error by denying its verity.

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

Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love.