Mary Baker Eddy Quotes & Sayings

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. — Mary Baker Eddy

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. — Mary Baker Eddy

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

Angels are pure thoughts from God, winged with Truth and Love. — Mary Baker Eddy

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. — Mary Baker Eddy

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

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

Sin makes its own hell, and goodness its own heaven. — Mary Baker Eddy

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. — Mary Baker Eddy

jealousy is the grave of affection — Mary Baker Eddy

Reject hatred without hating. — Mary Baker Eddy

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. — Mary Baker Eddy

There is too much animal courage in society and not sufficient moral courage. — Mary Baker Eddy

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. — Mary Baker Eddy

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. — Mary Baker Eddy

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

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. — Mary Baker Eddy

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. — Mary Baker Eddy

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 — Mary Baker Eddy

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

Disease is an image of thought externalized. — Mary Baker Eddy

Experience teaches us that we do not always receive the blessings we ask for in prayer.
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Whatever materializes worship hinders man's spiritual growth and keeps him from demonstrating his power over error. — Mary Baker Eddy

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

Sin brought death, and death will disappear with the disappearance of sin. — Mary Baker Eddy

Consistent prayer is the desire to do right. — Mary Baker Eddy

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

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. — Mary Baker Eddy

To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, today is big with blessings. — Mary Baker Eddy

God is incorporeal, divine, supreme, infinite Mind, Spirit, Soul, Principle, life, Truth, Love. — Mary Baker Eddy

You conquer error by denying its verity. — Mary Baker Eddy

People think that all cameramen do is point the camera at things, but it's a heck of a lot more complicated than that. — Mary Baker Eddy

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 — Mary Baker Eddy

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. — Mary Baker Eddy

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

We should master fear, instead of cultivating it. — Mary Baker Eddy

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. — Mary Baker Eddy

Truth is immortal; error is mortal. — Mary Baker Eddy

Spiritual teaching must always be by symbols. — Mary Baker Eddy

Hypocrisy is fatal to religion. — Mary Baker Eddy

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. — Mary Baker Eddy

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. — Mary Baker Eddy

Spring is my sweetheart ... — Mary Baker Eddy

I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art. — Mary Baker Eddy

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. — Mary Baker Eddy

Right motives give pinions to thought, and strength and freedom to speech and action. — Mary Baker Eddy

The lives of great men and women are miracles of patience and perseverance. — Mary Baker Eddy

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. — Mary Baker Eddy

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. — Mary Baker Eddy

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

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

Matter and death are mortal illusions. — Mary Baker Eddy

The human sigh for peace and love is answered and compensated by divine love. — Mary Baker Eddy

God is universal; confined to no spot, defined by no dogma, appropriated by no sect. — Mary Baker Eddy

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. — Mary Baker Eddy

Love inspires, illummines, designates and leads the way. — Mary Baker Eddy

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

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. — Mary Baker Eddy

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

The physical universe expresses the conscious and unconscious thoughts of mortals. — Mary Baker Eddy

Father-Mother is the name for Deity ... — Mary Baker Eddy

The time for thinkers has come. — Mary Baker Eddy

Mankind thinks either too much or too little of sin. — Mary Baker Eddy

Sickness is a belief, which must be annihilated by the divine Mind. — Mary Baker Eddy

Christian Science explains all cause and effect as mental, not physical. — Mary Baker Eddy

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. — Mary Baker Eddy

Sickness is an illusion, to be annihilated by Science ... — Mary Baker Eddy

Ideas are spiritual, harmonious and eternal — Mary Baker Eddy

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. — Mary Baker Eddy

Under affliction in the very depths, stop and contemplate what you have to be grateful for. — Mary Baker Eddy

Divine love always has met and always will meet every human need. — Mary Baker Eddy

Truth has no beginning. — Mary Baker Eddy

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

No power can withstand divine Love. — Mary Baker Eddy

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

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

When the heart speaks, however simple the words, its language is always acceptable to those who have hearts. — Mary Baker Eddy

God is Mind, and God is infinite; hence all is Mind. — Mary Baker Eddy

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

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. — Mary Baker Eddy

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. — Mary Baker Eddy

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

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

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 — Mary Baker Eddy

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. — Mary Baker Eddy

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

Sorrow has its reward. It never leaves us where it found us. — Mary Baker Eddy

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. — Mary Baker Eddy

Reason is the most active human faculty. — Mary Baker Eddy

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

Complaint is poverty. — Mary Baker Eddy

Life is real, and death is the illusion. — Mary Baker Eddy

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

If materialistic knowledge is power, it is not wisdom. It is but a blind force. — Mary Baker Eddy

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

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. — Mary Baker Eddy

Rushing around smartly is no proof of accomplishing much. — Mary Baker Eddy

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. — Mary Baker Eddy

Spirit is the real and eternal; matter is the unreal and temporal. — Mary Baker Eddy

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