Mary Baker Eddy quotes:

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

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

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.

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.

Spirit is the real and eternal; matter is the unreal and temporal.

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

Health is not a condition of matter, but of Mind.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Spring is my sweetheart ...

Truth is immortal; error is mortal.

True prayer is not asking God for love; it is learning to love, and to include all mankind in one affection.

The lives of great men and women are miracles of patience and perseverance.

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

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

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

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.

Jealousy is the grave of affection.

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.

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?

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

Love enriches the nature, enlarging, purifying, and elevating it.

Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love.

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

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.

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

Spiritual teaching must always be by symbols.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, today is big with blessings.

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

Reject hatred without hating.

... sickness is an illusion, to be annihilated by Science ...

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.

A wrong motive involves defeat.

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

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.

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

Complaint is poverty.

Consistent prayer is the desire to do right.

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.

Disease is an image of thought externalized.

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

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.

Father-Mother is the name for Deity ...

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.

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

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.

Hypocrisy is fatal to religion.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Love inspires, illummines, designates and leads the way.

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

Mankind thinks either too much or too little of sin.

Matter and death are mortal illusions.

No power can withstand divine Love.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Rushing around smartly is no proof of accomplishing much.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

The time for thinkers has come.

There is too much animal courage in society and not sufficient moral courage.

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

To infinite, ever present Love, all is Love, and there is no error, no sin sickness, nor death.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

We should master fear, instead of cultivating it.

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

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

Women must think strategically about creating ongoing pressure for change.

You conquer error by denying its verity.

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

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

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

Truth has no beginning.