Top 120 Quotes & Sayings by Mary Baker Eddy
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American theologian Mary Baker Eddy.
Last updated on April 14, 2025.
Jealousy is the grave of affection.
Home is the dearest spot on earth, and it should be the centre, but not the boundary, of the affections.
Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.
Health is not a condition of matter, but of Mind.
I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art.
Sin brought death, and death will disappear with the disappearance of sin.
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.
Disease is an experience of a so-called mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body.
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.
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.
Spirit is the real and eternal; matter is the unreal and temporal.
Reject hatred without hating.
To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, today is big with blessings.
If Christianity is not scientific, and Science is not of God, then there is no invariable law, and truth becomes an accident.
Truth is immortal; error is mortal.
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.
Experience teaches us that we do not always receive the blessings we ask for in prayer.
In the midst of depressing care and labor I turn constantly to divine Love for guidance, and find rest.
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.
Under affliction in the very depths, stop and contemplate what you have to be grateful for.
No power can withstand divine Love.
I will love, if another hates. I will gain a balance on the side of
good, my true being. This alone gives me the forces of
God wherewith to overcome all error.
Divine love always has met and always will meet every human need.
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
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.
Sickness is an illusion, to be annihilated by Science.
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.
Every luminary in the constellation of human greatness, like the stars, comes out in the darkness to shine with the reflected light of God.
The lives of great men and women are miracles of patience and perseverance.
All my work, all my efforts, all my prayers and tears are for humanity, and the spread of peace and love among mankind.
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.
We should master fear, instead of cultivating it.
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.
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.
Love inspires, illummines, designates and leads the way.
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.
Sickness is a belief, which must be annihilated by the divine Mind.
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.
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.
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.
What we most need is the prayer of fervent desire for growth in grace, expressed in patience, meekness, love, and good deeds.
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.
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.
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.
Drugs, cataplasms, and whiskey are stupid substitutes for the dignity and potency of divine mind and its efficacy to heal.
Disease is an image of thought externalized.
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.
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.
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
True prayer is not asking God for love; it is learning to love, and to include all mankind in one affection.
Great mischief comes from attempts to steady other people's altars.
Women must think strategically about creating ongoing pressure for change.
There is too much animal courage in society and not sufficient moral courage.
God is incorporeal, divine, supreme, infinite Mind, Spirit, Soul, Principle, life, Truth, Love.
Love enriches the nature, enlarging, purifying, and elevating it.
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.
To love and to be loved, one must do good to others. The inevitable condition whereby to become blessed, is to bless others.
When the heart speaks, however simple the words, its language is always acceptable to those who have hearts.
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.
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