Best 107 quotes of Mary Baker Eddy on MyQuotes

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

A wrong motive involves defeat.

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.

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

Complaint is poverty.

Consistent prayer is the desire to do right.

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

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.

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

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

Emerge gently from matter into Spirit.

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.

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.

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

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

Father-Mother is the name for Deity.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Great mischief comes from attempts to steady other people's altars.

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.

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

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

Ideas are spiritual, harmonious and eternal

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

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.

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

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.

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

In the midst of depressing care and labor I turn constantly to divine Love for guidance, and find rest.

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

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?

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

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.

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

Jealousy is the grave of affection.

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

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

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

Matter and death are mortal illusions.