Top 120 Quotes & Sayings by Mary Baker Eddy - Page 2

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

Complaint is poverty.

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

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

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

A little more grace, a motive made pure, a few truths tenderly told, a heart softened, a character subdued, a life consecrated, would restore the right action of the mental mechanism, and make manifest the movement of body and soul in accord with God.

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.

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

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

I love to observe Christmas in quietude, humility, benevolence, charity, letting good will towards man, eloquent silence, prayer, and praise express my conception of Truth’s appearing.

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

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

Spiritual teaching must always be by symbols.

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

The time for thinkers has come.

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.

Emerge gently from matter into Spirit.

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

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.

Matter and death are mortal illusions.

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

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

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

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

Hypocrisy is fatal to religion.

Mankind thinks either too much or too little of sin.

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

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

You conquer error by denying its verity.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Father-Mother is the name for Deity.

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

Truth has no beginning.

Spring is my sweetheart.

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

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.

Consistent prayer is the desire to do right.

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

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.

Rushing around smartly is no proof of accomplishing much.

Ideas are spiritual, harmonious and eternal

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?

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

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 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.

Life is real, and death is the illusion.

Reason is the most active human faculty.

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

A wrong motive involves defeat.