Quotes by 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.”

“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 hu...”

“Health is not a condition of matter but of Mind.”

“God is Mind and God is infinite hence all is Mind.”

“Truth is immortal error is mortal.”

“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.”

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

“To those leaning on the sustaining infinite to-day is big with blessings.”

“The time for thinkers has come. Truth, independent of doctrines and time-honored systems, knocks at the portal of humanity. Contentment with the past and the cold conventionality of materialism are...”

“The prayer that reforms the sinner and heals the sick is an absolute faith that all things are possible to God, — a spiritual understanding of Him, an unselfed love.”

“Who would stand before a blackboard, and pray the principle of mathematics to solve the problem? The rule is already established, and it is our task to work out the solution. Shall we ask the divin...”

“If our petitions are sincere, we labor for what we ask; and our Father, who seeth in secret, will reward us openly.”

“Christians rejoice in secret beauty and bounty, hidden from the world, but known to God. Self-forgetfulness, purity, and affection are constant prayers. Practice not profession, understanding not b...”

“The atonement requires constant self-immolation on the sinner's part.”

“Jesus' life proved, divinely and scientifically, that God is Love”

“Christianity is again demonstrating the Life that is Truth, and the Truth that is Life”

“Mystery does not enshroud Christ's teachings, and they are not theoretical and fragmentary, but practical and complete”

“The sick are more deplorably lost than the sinning, if the sick cannot rely on God for help and the sinning can.”

“Thou shalt have no other gods before me. (Exodus xx. 3.) The First Commandment is my favorite text. It demonstrates Christian Science. It inculcates the tri-unity of God, Spirit, Mind; it signifies...”

“The tender word and Christian encouragement of an invalid, pitiful patience with his fears and the removal of them, are better than hecatombs of gushing theories, stereotyped borrowed speeches, and...”